“Electric cars will not save the climate. It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated. If Birol were from Maine, he might have simply observed, “You can’t get there from here.” This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless. Analysis by the… Continue reading Why EVs Aren’t a Climate Change Panacea
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The Costly Impact of Non-Strategic Patents
The five largest auto manufacturers will face massive U.S. patent fees within the next five years. This report examines their decisions on which patents to keep, sell or prune, and the resulting cost savings and revenue extraction. Patent lapse strategies can help companies in any industry out-maneuver the competition. Volume 2 of the U.S. Patent… Continue reading The Costly Impact of Non-Strategic Patents
Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs
With the combination of requiring all new light-duty vehicles sold in New York State be zero-emission by 2035, investments in electric vehicles charging stations, and state and federal EV rebates, “you’re going to see that you have no more excuses” for not buying an EV, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Perhaps, but getting… Continue reading Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs
EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage
A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet All illustrations: Greg Mably The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. In subsequent years, the Far North Fiber project will lay down a… Continue reading EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage
The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets
One of the most vexing social challenges confronting the transition to EVs at scale is dealing with the effects that governmental EV transition policies will have on millions of jobs across a wide swath of industries. For example, the Biden Administration has proudly proclaimed that moving to EVs will be the source of new, high-paying,… Continue reading The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets
Refining Automotive Battery Management Systems With Lumped-Approach Thermal Modeling
This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. India is a fast-growing market for electric vehicles (EVs), with one study predicting that over 30 percent of the vehicles sold in India will be electric by 2030 (Ref. 1). The battery packs that power EVs are one of the main drivers of the electric mobility… Continue reading Refining Automotive Battery Management Systems With Lumped-Approach Thermal Modeling
Bosch Powers the Automotive Sector Toward an Electrified Future
This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. Just as tourists in Paris are drawn to the Louvre, visitors to Stuttgart, Germany, also flock to museums displaying the great works of the city. Stuttgart may not boast of Degas or Monet, but its prominent names are perhaps even more famous than Paris’ painters: Mercedes–Benz… Continue reading Bosch Powers the Automotive Sector Toward an Electrified Future
The Best Tech of CES 2023
And yet even now, after 150 years of development, the sound we hear from even a high-end audio system falls far short of what we hear when we are physically present at a live music performance. At such an event, we are in a natural sound field and can readily perceive that the sounds of… Continue reading The Best Tech of CES 2023
BMW’s iVision Dee Brings Sci-Fi to the Driveway
Before I met BMW’s iVision Dee at a press preview event in Germany— prior to a public reveal at CES in Las Vegas last week—I’d never seen a car blush, let alone had one make me blush. But then the electric BMW began changing colors and facial expressions, talking at me in intimate detail, splashing… Continue reading BMW’s iVision Dee Brings Sci-Fi to the Driveway
The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks
“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michiganprofessor emeritus John Leslie King, who has studied policy management and administration for decades. It becomes infinitely harder when the technology is complex and depends on several other equally complex technologies; where the stakes are huge; where there is a myriad… Continue reading The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks