Climate: Eating vegetarian has little impact on your household carbon emissions
In spite of popular claims that eating vegetarian offers a dramatic reduction on your personal carbon emissions, the actual reduction…
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Transportation: EV battery life
Tesla does not say how many times its batteries can be re-charged. Since the number of charge cycles is dependent…
Transportation: 56% of Norway’s new cars are EV-based – but geesh, crappy journalism
42% of Norway’s car sales were pure battery electric, and almost 14% were plug-in hybrid. Tesla Model 3 was the…
Transportation: New battery promises for EVs
Nikola, a start-up that has focused on hydrogen and battery-powered heavy-duty trucks, isn’t offering many details about the new technology…
Energy: Lifecycle GHG emissions from a hybrid, plug in hybrid and an EV are about the same
This graphic, from the International Energy Agency, illustrates the lifetime CO2 equivalent emissions from different types of vehicles. “BEV” is…
Energy: Unplugging your cell phone charger does nearly nothing for the environment
Few people have any idea about the lifetime energy usage of popular consumer products. 50-75% of the energy and green…