The Low Hanging Fruit Of Electrifying Transportation: Interview With Jesper Theilgaard
A weatherman uses his decades of knowledge to push for electrification.
A weatherman uses his decades of knowledge to push for electrification.
Two 30-meter tall Rotor Sails have been installed onboard the product tanker vessel Maersk Pelican, targeting a reduction in fuel cost and associated emissions on typical global shipping routes of 7-10%.
A new project is looking into the potential of exchanging solar data between the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the grid operator Energinet (ENDK), with the purpose of better predicting power loads and thus planning ahead in the intermittent nature of a nation wide grid made up from evermore renewable energy sources.
Since a certain company involved in the electric vehicle revolution is taking a ridiculous amount of headlines these days and months, and since I have been waiting in line for more than two years to buy one particular revolutionary product from this certain company, I have made decisions that force me to take a step back and shift focus a bit.
They actually pulled it off! The cool True Cousins Hans-Henrik Thomsen and Glenn Ellegaard Nielsen went to the drag strip at Mantorp Park in Sweden and did what they had threatened to do: Set the 1/4 mile electric doorslammer world record.
With incentives on electric vehicles (EV) in Canada being cancelled and German EV owners being threatened to pay back incentives, Denmark is maybe not the worst country to live in when shopping for an EV after all. But then again, maybe it is. The tax schemes for automobiles in Denmark is … [continued]
In the midst of all the scary data on global warming, I discovered a new presentation of data on the global deployment of renewable energy. Even though it is quite clear these days that solar and wind is raging on — like burying the coal industry and overtaking nuclear — … [continued]
As always, when some new and exiting e-bike tech comes to market, Carsten Obel at E-wheels.dk is quick to try it out. He has secured himself a small batch of the brand new Copenhagen Wheel, and I hurried right over and gave it a spin as soon as he had built his first test bike.
An article this month in the magazine Cyclists published by the The Danish Cyclists’ Federation argues that the advent of autonomous vehicles in our cities will lead to more congestion than we have already.
As of July 1, 2018, the so-called Speed Pedelec electric bicycles with a maximum speed of 45 km/h (28 mph) will be allowed in bike lanes in Denmark. Until now, they had to be registered as a big moped (small motorbike) and were not allowed on bike lanes.