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Well, when it comes to the future of America’s automotive fleet, it is clear that at least part of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology can’t get its mind around the reality of change in the transportation system.  They are focused on ‘Business As Usual’ (BAU) rather than the Business To Be (BTB).

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Freedom from Oil … This is an agenda, an objective that all Americans should support. (Okay, maybe not some oil company CEOs …)  And, this is a good key agenda item for next President, to move past the current occupant of the Oval Office’s identification of our “oil addiction” to actual action to fight the […]

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The multi-million dollar hydrogen concept cars getting, well, a little boring to me. Wonderful EcoGeek material but, well, not something I expect to be a common part of the driving scene within my lifetime (and I don’t plan on dying tomorrow). The Ford Airstream, however, goes beyond hydrogen to some interesting features: Hat to DSnodgrass […]

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A real priority for our nation, for the globe should be moving ever more toward an electrified society with electrified transport (whether train, car, or otherwise).  There is no doubt that from today forward, every day will see fossil fuels for transportation getting dirtier (especially true with ‘oil’), as it will be harder to find […]

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A real priority for our nation, for the globe should be moving ever more toward an electrified society with electrified transport (whether train, car, or otherwise).  There is no doubt that from today forward, every day will see fossil fuels for transportation getting dirtier (especially true with ‘oil’), as it will be harder to find […]

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Well, from time-to-time, Thomas Friedman just gets something right and he can turn a good phrase on occasion.   When it comes to the automakers, Friedman is noting that they are following empty-barrel politics, conniving to have Michigan lawmakers year after year shielding Detroit from pressure to innovate on higher mileage standards, even though Detroit’s […]

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Well, from time-to-time, Thomas Friedman just gets something right and he can turn a good phrase on occasion.  When it comes to the automakers, Friedman is noting that they are followin empty-barrel politics, conniving to have Michigan lawmakers year after year shielding Detroit from pressure to innovate on higher mileage standards, even though Detroit’s failure […]

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While my passion goes with Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) (hopefully with serial, not parallel, engines), there are tremendous benefits available with diesels.  And, well, that particulate spewing, choking, health-risking cloud of ‘old’ diesels is transforming to something different. And, well, in this domain, the Old World is leading the way.

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The Opel Flextreme is the European variant of the much anticipated Chevy Volt.  While electricity will be the primary source, the Flextreme will have a diesel engine for range extension. This is starting to show the flexibility of the  Chevy E-Flex power-train architecture.  The Volt is to have a gasoline /E85 flex-fuel engine. The Chinese showed […]

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As reported in Le Monde, after extensive study, the French postal system is undertaking a shift toward extensive use of electric vehicles for mail delivery. Currently, 60,000 of French mailmen (and women) deliver mail by bicycle (the classic Jaune — yellow — of La Poste).  These will be transitioned to electric assisted bicycles and, to […]

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