auto industry
If not for China’s wartime mobilization, the world would have deployed one-half as many solar panels, one-third as many electric vehicles, and one-quarter as many wind turbines last year.
advocacy
If told today the Parable of the Good Samaritan would feature "illegal immigrants", trans people and other outgroups.
Fuel Cells: A Love Story
Ballard’s shift to hydrogen fuel cells was the result of a 1983 contract from Canada’s Department of National Defense to explore the technology
Fuel Cells: A Love Story
Unfortunately, instead of the glass-smooth surface I’d hoped for, my handiwork was more of a lunar landscape...
Fuel Cells: A Love Story
The Mark 4 (“Mk4”) was an early Ballard fuel cell design, and the one the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell group used at the time.
hydrogen
The security guard asked why I was loitering by the front door in the pre-twilight darkness. Thus began my internship at Ballard Power Systems.
hybrids
It took from 1997 to 2009 – from Titanic to Avatar – for Toyota to break even, overall, on gasoline hybrids.
climate
ZEV mandates helped accelerate electric transportation, but the associated credits did so with the worst of negative externalities.
auto industry
Toyota and Honda first set up in Canada in the 1980s, so in the span of 40 years Japanese carmakers went from an existential threat to the Canadian auto industry, to our biggest producers ... “If you can’t beat ’em, make ‘em join you”.
advocacy
Interviewees' archetype of an environmentalist was “high status, liberal, female, and white”. Elizabeth May (Canadian Green Party leader) fits this perfectly.
EV
Several years ago, when Tesla’s fans and marketing machine could still paper over the red flag parade of Elon Musk’s character and business practices, I became part of a community of his critics.
climate
I’d closed my office door by this point, which was a good thing, because I fairly shrieked, “are you telling me George W. Bush got into Harvard Business School on [obscene gerund] merit??”