California wants to deal with the ‘Valley of Death’ for electric cars
On balance, electric cars have been a miserable market failure, despite the massive amounts of hype directed at them.
Archive for year: 2017
Utah physicians group alarmed by studies linking more deaths to air pollution
An association of Utah doctors is calling for more stringent limits on air pollution in light of new evidence they say shows air quality is more critical to human health than once thought.
Oil fields pumping a third of supply die fastest in 24 years
The tussle for supremacy between OPEC and U.S. shale drillers is killing off older oil fields at the fastest pace in almost a quarter century. That could hurt the industry once the current glut has faded.
Electric cars are the future? Not so fast
Skepticism of electric cars melts a bit more with each new announcement from the likes of Tesla, which last week launched production of a mass-market vehicle, and Volvo, which days later promised to phase out gasoline-only engines by 2019.
Urban America is driving more. Rural America is driving less. What gives?
Basically, we’re driving as much (per person) as we were in 2000, and the rate is rising. But a meaningful, long-term shift is occurring in driving patterns, as a new paper by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the University of Michigan makes clear.
The ‘unstoppable’ renewable energy revolution keeps faltering
Solar, wind and electric vehicles are now said to have such momentum that they are going to cause a peak in oil demand within as little as five years, according to the most optimistic projections.
No, New York mag: Climate change won’t make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100
Climate change is a tough issue to cover as a journalist. It’s like following a slow-motion train wreck, except significant portions of the population dispute whether there really are trains involved and whether they will, in the end, crash.
Electric carmaker Faraday Future halts work on Nevada plant
Faraday Future, the electric-vehicle startup backed by LeEco founder Jia Yueting, halted plans to build a $1 billion factory in Nevada as the troubled tycoon fights for the survival of his Chinese car business.
Onslaught of hybrids and EVs are on their way despite low gas prices
Consumers may have lost interest for now in the most fuel-efficient cars because of low gasoline prices, but the future for hybrid and electric cars is more certain than ever.
New biofuel could work in regular diesel engines
But the need for specially designed engines to run biodiesel is holding back the technology.
