Archive for the ‘Green Car Reports’ Category
Roadmaps aren’t inherently sexy, unless you’re lost and hungry. But when they demonstrate plausible visions for the future, they can be well worth reading. Today, a group of 13 CEOs and board chairmen from a broad range of companies announced that they’ve formed the not-for-profit Electrification Coalition. Electric cars from major makers Their…
Ed Kjaer is usually the most profane executive at any electric-car event. Blunt, direct, often outspoken, he’s known as a go-to guy for real-world perspective on how plug-in cars will start to enter the U.S. auto fleet. Since 1999, he’s been the Director of Electric Transportation for Southern California Edison, the 123-year-old electric utility…
Advocates for the blind have long been pushing for hybrid and electric cars to make some kind of artificial noise at low speeds, to alert people with vision impairment of their presence when operating in all-electric mode, which is quieter. But data on whether electric-drive cars actually hit pedestrians more often has been lacking. Now, a new…
Driving school is often a drag for participants. But as long as you’re learning to drive, it might not hurt to learn a bit about how to identify more fuel-efficient cars and driving tactics to save gasoline, right? Wrong. It’s a distraction and irrelevant, since “so-called environmental mandates…have nothing to do with driving.” Ummm, fuel…
Well, this is encouraging. A new study of luxury car buyers commissioned by BMW finds that even luxury car buyers are beginning to reject conspicuous consumption, with more and more choosing their purchases for “social, political, or environmental reasons”. BMW and Mini executives, in a presentation called “What consumers are learning from the…
That old capitalist tool, Forbes magazine, has issued a list of the 10 dirtiest cars sold in the U.S. At the very top, in first place for filth, is the Jeep Grand Cherokee. But it turns out there are some problems with their list. There’s history behind this. A decade ago, the website for Forbes magazine practically pioneered the concept of Top-10…