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One in Six New Cars in the World Will Be Electric By 2025

Almost every sixth car sold in the world will be electric by 2025, according to a UBS global autos survey released Tuesday. And if things go the way they have ...

First fast-charge station for all electric vehicles on Calgary-Edmonton corridor announced

The first of three fast-charging stations for all-electric vehicles traveling in the corridor between Alberta's two largest cities was announced in Calgary on Tuesday. The province lags behinds Quebec, Ontario ...
/ e-vehicles, news, sustainability

Continental envisions swarms of autonomous electric BEEs as public transport

A major automotive manufacturing company, Continental AG, released its vision of "the mobility of the future," which includes fleets of driverless electric vehicles. Although its 19th century roots are in ...

Letter from Thomas Merton to Rachel Carson in Silent Witness: Letters in Times of Crisis

Silent Spring is perhaps much more timely even than you or I realize. Though you are treating of just one aspect, and a rather detailed aspect, of our technological civilization, ...
/ opinion, uncategorized

Battery-Powered Cars Will Be Half of Global Auto Market by 2030, Study Says

Battery-powered cars will make up about half of the global automotive market by 2030, as environmental regulations, falling prices and the deployment of driverless taxis fuel demand, according to a ...

12 big cities sign ‘fossil-fuel-free streets’ declaration

Cities like Vancouver aim to combat climate change. Twelve major cities including London, Paris, Los Angeles, and Cape Town promised on Monday to buy only zero-emissions buses from 2025 and ...

Predecessors of GTEC: Projects One and Two in San Francisco

When I moved into the 4th floor of Project One a couple of pods down from Apples Daycare with a musician friend in the late summer of 1973, I had ...
/ opinion, technology, uncategorized

Death of gas and diesel begins as GM announces plans for ‘all-electric future’

After nearly a century of building vehicles powered by fossil fuels, General Motors — one of the world’s largest automakers — announced Monday that the end of GM producing internal ...

Where Are Canada’s Missing Electric Cars?

The race is on for electric vehicle supremacy. Last week, China — the world’s second-largest economy and consumer of about one-third of new cars — announced it will set a deadline ...
/ climate change, e-vehicles, energy, news

A Tiny Self-Sufficient House Aims to Make Us Rethink Sustainability

A group of architects and engineers in Ottawa are building a tiny, totally self-sufficient house that people might actually want to live in. In a small alcove at the rear ...
/ energy, lifestyle, sustainability, technology