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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., Tom Wigley, and Christopher Green questioned the relevance of the reference emissions scenarios that the IPCC used in the Fourth Assessment Report to underpin estimates of future warming trends.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the current power grid could handle many tens of millions of cars plugging in at off-peak hours before wed have any capacity issues [See EPRI article PDF ]. What do environmental groups think of PHEVs? We can extrapolate similar trends for PHEV batteries.

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