Railroaded by Metrolinx: An Infinite Corridor, Reinventing the Automobile,...
Two weeks ago, as I galloped down MIT’s Infinite Corridor, I spotted a poster advertising the speech of Ray LaHood, US Secretary of Transportation, as part of the Transportation@ MIT lecture series. At...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: Rising oil prices will end urban sprawl … or not?
A popular assumption about rising oil prices is that people will have to drive a lot less and use public transit a lot more. This, in turn, will lead to greater housing density and fewer roads, i.e....
View ArticleCarbon49 - Sustainability for Canadian businesses: Green R&D: Companies...
The Green Transition Scoreboard reports that $241 billion was recently invested in green R&D by large multinationals like Samsung, General Electric, and Nissan and smaller companies like Owens...
View Article350 or bust: Our Carbon Pollution: Is It Different From Raw Sewage?
In a very short time – years or at most decades – humans will look back at our spewing of carbon pollution into the atmosphere with the same disgust and disbelief that we now look back on people in the...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, January 2013 (via...
My column on plug-in car sales in Canada for January 2013, is now up at GreenCarReports. Since it’s hard to write ~600 words about sales statistics in the very small Canadian market, I discuss how...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: April 2013 Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales
My April update on Canadian plug-in car sales stats in Canada is now up at GreenCarReports. The Volt’s title reign continues — while the Prius Plug-in Prius dropped to fourth place! As noted in the...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: Tesla sales in Canada, Jan-May 2013
My GreenCarReports article on Tesla Model S sales in Canada this year has been popular enough to reach second-place in GCR’s “Most Popular this week” sidebar. Very cool, and almost certainly indicative...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: Number one!
Clearly, people really enjoyed the Canadian Tesla sales stats I was able to pull up via vehicle registration records. The article is now number one for the week! An article on Canadian stats topping an...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: The Innovator’s Dilemma, Toyota edition
This car — yes, this car — has impeded Toyota’s electric efforts My post on how The Innovator’s Dilemma explains why Toyota lags in electric vehicles — and how Kleiber’s Law explains there’s nothing...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: Passing Gas – EV’s now outnumber gas stations, in America
My latest piece is up on GreenCarReports, here. It’s where I sourced the photo from. And yes, putting “Passing Gas” in the title was deliberate. Hey, it’s catchy! From what I can tell, electric...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: British Columbia hits 1,000 EV’s (and gov’t drops support)
image of Tesla Model S’s at a rally, from Consumer Reports British Columbians have now purchased more than 1,000 plug-in electric vehicles. Add in low-speed neighbourhood electric vehicles and owner...
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: The real costs of fossil fuel-powered vehicles –...
There is some rising concern, and at times vitriol, about electric car drivers not paying their fair share, because they buy no gas, and therefore do not pay gas taxes, which go to maintaining roads....
View ArticleRailroaded by Metrolinx: An Infinite Corridor, Reinventing the Automobile,...
Two weeks ago, as I galloped down MIT's Infinite Corridor, I spotted a poster advertising the speech of Ray LaHood, US Secretary of Transportation, as part of the Transportation@ MIT lecture series. At...
View ArticleRailroaded by Metrolinx: An Infinite Corridor, Reinventing the Automobile,...
Two weeks ago, as I galloped down MIT’s Infinite Corridor, I spotted a poster advertising the speech of Ray LaHood, US Secretary of Transportation, as part of the Transportation@ MIT lecture series. At...
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: Tesla Model 3 vs the Chevy Bolt – And What About...
The GM Bolt is a great car – but boring and ugly, and utilitarian, in my view, with surprisingly limited cargo space for a
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: A Brief Green Car & Truck Update
I drive a 2012 Chevy Volt, the best car I’ve ever had. And if affordability and ecology are factors, as they sensibly, obviously should be, then between the Volt’s launch to the present in 2020, it...
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: Electric awesomeness. Harley Livewire.
LiveWire Electric Drive Motorcycle – Harley-Davidson USA It’s beautiful, it’s fast, it’s a Harley – and it’s electric. Instant torque from an electric motor means great acceleration. An electric...
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: Greenwash, Lithium & Eco-Fascism
Proved: Greenwash Is Ecoterrorism, Eco-Fascism – and High-Tech, Neo-Feudal “Green” Imperialism Indigenous cultures in the “lithium triangle” of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia are being robbed,...
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