hydrogen
Fuel Cells: A Love Story 😊
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.
EV
hybrids
Toyota: 0 to 60 (% hybrids) in 31 years
It took from 1997 to 2009 – from Titanic to Avatar – for Toyota to break even, overall, on gasoline hybrids.
climate
Musk is to ZEV Credits What Fukushima was to Nuclear
ZEV mandates helped accelerate electric transportation, but the associated credits did so with the worst of negative externalities.
auto industry
Canadian autos: Big Three to Japan Two … and a Chinese One?
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”.
EV
Jane Goodall-ing with Elon Musk’s early, conservative critics (Part I: TSLAQ)
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
Implausible Thanks to a PhD "Climate Crank"
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??”