What if you had to live with your own CO2 from driving a car?

A few months ago, the question of an alternative reality occurred to me: What if our personal contribution of green house gasses from driving a car was confined to our own share of the global atmosphere? This is not how the world works, of course. Every time we burn a fossil fuel, the CO2 produced

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What’s up with NACS (Tesla’s charging connector)?

A number of automotive manufacturers, charging equipment manufacturers and charging networks have announced they will support, and/or change their product’s charging connection to NACS (North American Charging Standard). Tesla coined the term, NACS, in late 2022 to rebrand the then-Tesla exclusive EV charging connection used on all Tesla vehicles sold in North America, and to

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EV talk at Fairchild-Nichols Library, Trumbull CT

It was a nice coincidence that Paula Carlson of Fairchild-Nichols library filled out the Shift2Electric contact form on May 17, requesting an electric vehicle talk. As we corresponded, a plan emerged to connect our planned July trip to Connecticut to an available date when I could provide the talk in-person. Thus, on July 26 Karen

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How will the electric grid handle 100% electric vehicles? (Part 2)

Part 1 of this series outlined the total increase in grid capacity needed for a 100% electrified light duty vehicle (LDV) fleet in the U.S. by 2040. It showed that with no additional technology, the required grid capacity increase is on the low end of historic grid growth. This part will cover a set of

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How will the electric grid handle 100% electric vehicles? (Part 1)

Handling a 100% electric vehicle (EV) scenario will require significant upgrades and modifications to the existing electric grid, but how much? And how does that compare to historic grid growth? We’ll start with an estimate of the additional grid capacity needed for a fully electrified light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleet in the U.S. and then compare

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