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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

“Electric cars will not save the climate. It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol , Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated. A high priority, says IEA’s Birol, is investment in across-the-board energy-related technology research and development and their placement into practice.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

billion in Department of Energy loans to develop new fuel-efficient vehicles, including the Volt. I still believe that the first automaker to create a diversity of hybrids will become king, while we wait for energy generation, distribution and costs to come down. Why grant them the privledge to spend our money in the first place?

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