Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Hydropower in Seattle will push you around for the same price. They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays.

Solar 150

Solar Miles Gasoline-Electric MPG 150

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce.

Grid 138

Grid Power Powered Vehicles 138

EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

In 2020 Tesla sold exactly 1000 of these for every solar-year day. Sure, 2x more people live within Seattle city limits than in all of Iceland’s huge expanses. Personally we will likely make our first outright purchase of an EV this year, after serially leasing 4.5 OVERVIEW: WHEW, WHAT A YEAR! Even if they are generally smart.

2020 52

2020 Global 2019 Portugal 52