Is It Time For A New Standard For Measuring EV Fuel Efficiency?
While I was glad to ditch my personal car in August, our household has a new-used car, which we were
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Energy Burden: How To Measure? How To Reduce?
Measuring energy burden is relatively straightforward. Figuring out how to create robust metrics for it, though– and how to address it- is much more challenging.
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MDHHS and LIHEAP: We’ll Pay For Fossil Fuels. Weatherization, Not So Much.
At an MPSC workgroup meeting this morning on Energy Waste Reduction specifically for the low to moderate income (LMI) market
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Libert-e-bikes: Marketing Mobility As Freedom
Michael Robertson, who founded a peer platform of the ill-fated Napster in 1997, once referred to cars as “liberty machines.” It’s a dominant belief among many car owners. Are eBike companies challenging that assumption in their marketing material?
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“Why Invest In Our Citizenry When We Could Blow It All On The Police State?” Asks Shrinking Midwestern City Increasingly No One Cares About
The City of St. Louis, whose population just in the 2020 census dipped below 300,000 for the first time since
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The Three-Martini Greyhound: The Future of Corporate Travel?
In June, my partner took a three-day business trip– her first since before the pandemic hit- to Chicago. I threw
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Sidebar: GM Says They’re Serious About Electrification? Prove It.
GM talks about its commitment to electrification, and then displays a spread of exclusively gas-powered cars at the Belle Isle Grand Prix.
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You’ve Heard Of Socially Responsible Investing. Now Get Ready For… Socially Irresponsible Investing?!
A new conservative investment fund seeks to invest in “socially conservative” products, identifying a market of interested, “un-woke” investors. The only problem? Well, turns out the most profitable companies are all actually pretty socially liberal.
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EV Charging Networks: Drive Infrastructure, Not Just Cars
A few weeks ago, I had a chat with some folks from A Major Automaker, one of the Big Two-And-A-Half,
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