Apart from everybody giving up eating meat, everyone ditching their diesel, and petrol cars, to drive a shiny new electric vehicle, is the best contribution we can make to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The ideal, therefore, […]
Previously published on CleanTechnica.com You are probably familiar with the lithium batteries in your smart phone, tablet, or laptop. You are probably aware that they do not last very long. The number of charge, and discharge […]
There is much discussion about the level of range needed for an electric vehicle to achieve longer journeys. The idea that an electric vehicle requires the same range as a liquid fuelled vehicle is arbitrary, and […]
I have been involved in a number of discussions on CleanTechnica, recently, about the range required for an EV to do longer journeys, and to be considered more than just a “city car”, for local runs. […]
Originally published in CleanTechnica The Question This was a question about EV efficiency that I was asked recently, and apart from thinking that the Hyundai Ioniq must be fairly efficient, as it gets about 120 miles […]
Writer’s Perks – A Free Car It’s only really by driving a car that you can get a good impression of it, and I have been very fortunate to be offered the chance to borrow a […]
30 Year Wait I had been interested in the idea of having an electric vehicle, (EV), for about 30 years, but before the existence of relatively lightweight lithium-ion batteries, when heavy lead-acid batteries were all that […]
Image Credit – Yanfeng Interiors 100 Years War Were you aware that 3,285 people were killed today, in a war that has been going on for decades, and that each year at least 20 million people […]
Introduction I was recently involved in a discussion below the line about the effect of levels of acceleration an electric vehicle range. This was below one of the articles in CleanTechnica. I was arguing that heavy […]
In my previous article I wrote extensively about a specific scheme, in the United Kingdom, for producing bio-gas, which would make the UK self-sufficient for domestic gas, without the use of prime agricultural land, or food […]
Introduction In January of this year, I wrote 2 major articles, relating to climate change, and what can be done about it. I am now writing follow-up articles about some aspects of that. One item I […]
Introduction In Part I of this article, I introduced the problem of Climate change, and the history of the science behind it. I then went on to discuss green house gases, noting that greenhouse-gas emissions are […]
The Goldilocks Planet Our planet, Earth, is the only planet in the known universe able to support life. I stress here the word, “known”, as statisticians are able to say that, as there are trillions of […]
The Hazards of Charging up in Public Places If, like me, you charge up your vehicle in public places, I am sure you will be familiar with what I am about to describe. I do my […]
Hot off the Press I have just received a press release from Ecotricity, outlining a new deal for EV drivers, starting in January 2018. The deal includes cheaper charging on their public, EV fast-charging network, a […]
