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Off-Road vehicles & equipment need diesel fuel
Off-Road vehicles & equipment need diesel fuel Preface. Move over semi-trucks. You are not the most important truck in the world, even though I gave you the starring role in “When Trucks Stop Running”. What really matters are the trucks that grow our fuel: Food. And mining trucks to get materials to make trucks, logging for fuel and infrastructure, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIV–To EV Or Not To EV? One Of Many Questions Regarding Our ‘Clean/Green’ Utopian Future, Part 2.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIV Knossos, Greece (1988). Photo by author. To EV Or Not To EV? One Of Many Questions Regarding Our ‘Clean/Green’ Utopian Future, Part 2. In Part 1 of this two-part Contemplation I argue that the recent trumpeting of electric vehicle (EV) car sales as a prologue to their imminent mass adoption and possibly […]
Electric Vehicles for Everyone? If the Dream Was Met, Would it Help the Environment?
Electric Vehicles for Everyone? If the Dream Was Met, Would it Help the Environment? Even if you are 100% convinced in man-made climate change, the idea the EV’s will help reduce CO2 emissions is nonsense. The Impossible Dream Hello climate change advocates, please open your minds and consider the Manhattan Institute report Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The […]
Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy problem
Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy problem Many people believe that installing more wind turbines and solar panels and manufacturing more electric vehicles can solve our energy problem, but I don’t agree with them. These devices, plus the batteries, charging stations, transmission lines and many other structures necessary […]
EVs–They’re Not Maintenance-Free, and They Don’t Save You Money
EVs–They’re Not Maintenance-Free, and They Don’t Save You Money
Rush to Mine Electric Vehicle Battery Elements Threatens People and Ecosystems
Rush to Mine Electric Vehicle Battery Elements Threatens People and Ecosystems A creuseur, or digger, climbs through a copper and cobalt mine in Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 8, 2016.MICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ / THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES / TRUTHOUT Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law […]
Op-Ed: Think bigger. Switching to electric cars isn’t enough
Op-Ed: Think bigger. Switching to electric cars isn’t enough A Tesla charging station in Santa Monica. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) It might feel like the easy solution — just replace your gas-guzzling SUV with an electric SUV, and if everyone does that, eventually we’ll solve climate change. You can see why California regulators […]
Are Electric Cars the Solution?
Are Electric Cars the Solution? Or do visions of ‘clean’ robots supplying mobile freedom steer us down the wrong road? Makers of EVs also push ahead on self-augmenting automation. In other words, a car capable of driving itself while you doze. Is that truly ‘freedom’? Fifty years ago, the French political ecologist André Gorz explained that […]
The dark side of Tesla: gigafactories need gigamines
The dark side of Tesla: gigafactories need gigamines The production of electric vehicles requires vast amounts of raw materials such as nickel: Around 32 kg of this metal are needed for the lithium batteries of a mid-range car. To secure access, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is encouraging global nickel mining and is considering investing in […]
Used Car Battery Problems Take Shine Off China’s ‘Green’ New Energy Vehicles
Workers assemble electric cars in a factory in Zouping, east China’s Shandong Province on Sept. 16, 2014. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images) Used Car Battery Problems Take Shine Off China’s ‘Green’ New Energy Vehicles In the last decade, China has rapidly expanded its “green” new energy vehicle (NEV) industry but recycling and disposing of hundreds of thousands of […]
Deconstructing Electric Vehicles on the eve of Glasgow COP26
Deconstructing Electric Vehicles on the eve of Glasgow COP26 A lead human-interest story in the weekend Wheels section of a major Canadian newspaper is about a 2-car family’s transitioning from a hybrid to an EV as they “try to be more sustainable”. They upgrade their daily car every few years to seek “improvements in fuel efficiency, reliability […]
“Greening” Our Commutes
“Greening” Our Commutes Is the revolution here? The cover of the October 2021 issue of National Geographic says it is. I agree, though we’re not talking about the same revolution. And what if that difference can make all the difference? The magazine cover refers to two feature articles on “electric cars, hydrogen-powered planes, and the […]
This isn’t going to work
This isn’t going to work If an energy policy sounds too good to be true, that is usually because it is. Take, for example, just one of the jigsaw pieces in current policy for reaching net zero by 2050: electric car batteries. Jillian Ambrose – who should know better – at the Guardian reports this weekend that: […]
Crisis hiding in plain sight
Crisis hiding in plain sight Putting a positive gloss on the news is especially important as we attempt to recover from a pandemic. And if that positive gloss is green in colour, so much the better. And so yesterday we were treated to the news that: “More electric vehicles were registered than diesel cars for the second […]
