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Al Gore Joins Call for Electric Cars

Plugs and Cars

Buried in Al Gore's challenge today calling for a 100% renewable electric grid within ten years is a call for plug-in electric cars. We could further increase the value and efficiency of a Unified National Grid by helping our struggling auto giants switch to the manufacture of plug-in electric cars. Full speech available here.

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Tesla and GM sign on to use supply chain emissions database

Teslarati

Vice President Al Gore at the COP28 climate conference this weekend. The database, dubbed Climate TRACE, was created by Gore’s global climate coalition in an attempt to keep close track of supply chain emissions, according to a report from Fortune. billion Tonnes CO2e100.

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The REAL Climate Change Debate: Are All Deniers Evil or Are Some Merely Ignorant?

Creative Greenius

The video was auto-scrubbed by YouTube after Watts claimed the video broke YouTube’s copyright rules. But that is as big a crock as the mustachioed weatherman from Fox who slanders Al Gore, climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, the UN Scientists who won the Nobel prize, and who proudly believes that global warming is a hoax.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

Cars That Think

John Shegerian: When we got into the industry [in 2002], Al Gore had not yet won his awards for “ An Inconvenient Truth.” On the other side, engineers are still going to be hired by great OEMs, whether tech or auto companies, and that's beautiful because now they could design an engineer for circular economy behavior.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Match the auto maker with its electric car: A. Connect the investor to the electric-vehicle developer: A. Fisker Automotive. Tesla Motor. Bright Automotive. Reuben Munger. Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Warren Buffett.

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

Though he’d previously been too busy to focus on environmental concerns, he went solar in 2013 after seeing Al Gore’s global warming red-alert, “An Inconvenient Truth,” then bought a used Nissan Leaf two years later. He’s still driving that car.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

Had national and economic security trumped the power of oil and auto companies, a large percentage of cars would run today on cleaner, cheaper, domestic natural gas. Tags: joe romm pickens plan t boone pickens al gore cng. A few billion dollars a week wouldn’t leave the country, and we would all understand the value of choice.

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