While common public transit modalities, such as bus services, are often held up by proponents as a solution to everything from traffic congestion, to greenhouse gas emissions, to air pollution, etc., the reality is that the sheer inconvenience of these options in many locations means that user growth has generally remained flat.
If you’re a thinking person, you know that the USA was once a wonderful utopia of happiness, economic prosperity, equality, and a tremendously high quality of life — maybe 30 years or so ago, maybe 40 or 50, maybe 100. I don’t know when, but I do know one thing — it was once a paradise like you can’t even imagine today.
Media, both social and antisocial, has been full of articles and first-person accounts with people raving about how much they love the experience of driving their electric cars. They talk about how wonderful it is to wake up to a full gas tank, how quiet it is, the instant and no-fuss … [continued]
Since “22 Ways To Delay The Electric Car Revolution” and then the expanded “50 Tips For Slowing The Electric Car Revolution” were such big hits, I thought I’d run with “44 Ways You Can Slow The Transition To The Solar Century” to keep the “fun” going. (Of course, as someone wrote under … [continued]
I’ve had a lot of fun recently while highlighting 50 “tips” for slowing the electric car revolution and writing about what the end of gasmobiles could look like, but the discussions left some people scratching their heads. Why would automakers conscientiously try to delay a switch to electric vehicles? Why would they not try to … [continued]
My recent article “22 Ways To Delay The Electric Car Revolution” was hugely popular, but readers offered a lot more ideas and wanted me to take the list to 50, so here we are. To keep everything in one place, I’ve copy & pasted the original article here and then expanded … [continued]
Let’s say that, for some reason, you really don’t want humans to drive in cleaner, more enjoyable, more exciting, safer, better electric cars. How do you go about slowing down the transition? Below are prescriptions for three different groups (automakers, the media, and investors) that could pitch in and do … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. A product manager for Porsche was recently quoted as saying that Tesla’s Ludicrous Mode upgrade was a “facade” — using the dig to also claim that the Porsche Mission E will be capable of being run very hard for long periods of time, without overheating … [continued]
The evil genius behind The Oatmeal has revealed the secret to his never-ending source of devious humor: a Tesla Model S. In a lengthy, sometimes raunchy dissertation on the car, the Oatmeal unpacks all the ins and outs of it in a humorous, insightful way that makes you want to read just.one.more.page. … [continued]
Driving the LEAF has been such a different kind of driving experience for me. The LEAF has lit my imagination. I recently thought up 10 uses for a silent Nissan LEAF, with more to come. The LEAF, like every all-electric vehicle, makes almost no sound (beyond the quiet beeping sounds when backing … [continued]
