Electric Cars Go “Exponential”
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie of idyllic Buckinghamshire England (see pic if you doubt my claim) sent me this thoughtful piece on the EV adoption curve. I responded: I agree with the basic...
View ArticleTransportation Innovator/Visionary
When innovative transportation companies wish to tap 2GreenEnergy’s consulting capabilities, what they’re asking for, whether they know it at the time or not, is to open a dialog with Dan Sturges,...
View ArticleFrom Guest Blogger Jordan: Google Attempts to Invade Uber's Ride-Sharing Turf...
The driverless cars that Google is developing seem to fit perfectly into the ride-sharing industry, so it comes as no surprise at all that the search giant is looking to enter this business. The...
View ArticleThe Future Always Looks Like the Past, Until….
Not being a “car guy,” I’m unimpressed with concept cars that show the future of automotive design—especially as they suggest perpetuating of the basic paradigm that has been with us for 100 years:...
View ArticleStanford University Hosts Conference on Driverless Cars
Here’s a post on a conference held at Stanford University recently on driverless cars. As I’ve mentioned, I don’t deny that there are benefits, e.g., fewer accidents, better productivity due to better...
View ArticleThe Future of Transportation
Here’s 2GreenEnergy Associate and transportation visionary Dan Sturges giving a talk on the future of mobility. He’s most certainly right about a lot of things: • Our current transportation paradigm...
View ArticleCars: Past, Present and Future
I’m off on a hike that will ultimately take me to a vintage car show. I was explaining my viewpoint on the history of automotive design and engineering to my daughter just now, which I summarize as...
View ArticleQuick Notes on the Future of Transportation
Today is the 117th anniversary of Henry Ford’s first successful test drive of the automobile; his four-horsepower, 500-pound frame called the “quadricycle” (pictured here) ran on pure ethanol....
View ArticleThe Changing Paradigm in Personal Transportation
Here’s an article that underscores something I firmly believe: the concept of car ownership, a paradigm of the American lifestyle in the 20th Century, is on its way out. Just as a generation decided...
View ArticleWhat Does the Decline in Vehicle Miles Traveled Mean?
Here’s an interesting graphic that suggests a phenomenon that my colleague Jeff Siegel calls “peak car” – a definitive decline in the number of vehicle miles traveled in the U.S. Granted, there are...
View ArticleParadigm Shift in Personal Mobility
At yesterday’s conference at UCLA – The Financial Implications of Going Green – I happened to sit in front of a graduate student in corporate sustainability – I forget the exact name of her program....
View ArticleAnother Benefit of Sustainable Transportation: Less Traffic Congestion
Those of us who live near major cities spend a great deal of time stuck in traffic, when we’re unfortunate enough to be forced to drive at rush-hour, or encounter some special circumstance like an...
View ArticleCar of the Future: Infographic
Here’s a neat infographic that presents these folks’ idea of the car of the future. No doubt there are some good, futuristic ideas here that differentiate this thing from what we have now, but I...
View Article10 Things You Didn’t Know about Electric Vehicles
Here’s a consumer-oriented piece from the U.S. Department of Energy: 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Electric Vehicles. Nicely done. There are a couple of issues with EVs, however, that make this a...
View ArticleU.S. President Obama's “All-of-the-Above” Energy Strategy
A friend of mine who had made some energy-related suggestions to President Obama just received a very thoughtful and well-written note in response, talking up the “all-of-the-above” strategy. I...
View ArticleThe Future of Transportation
I know I’ve mentioned that occasionally, we’re lucky enough here at 2GreenEnergy to be the beneficiary of work done by interns – normally young people anxious to participate in a true “win-win-win.”...
View ArticleChanging the World for the Better
As legendary environmentalist Paul Hawken points out in the lecture to which I referred here, there are now over 200,000 groups on the planet devoted to causes within the umbrella of sustainability and...
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