Tag: Electric Vehicles

  • Plug In! The Electrification Handbook

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    We all know that renewable energy is the future, but how can we ditch coal and gas in our own lives and homes? Plug In! by Saul Griffith (2025) is full of pro tips and essential information for your electrification journey.

  • EV News

    EV News

    EV News provides a listing of current web articles and videos about the EV industry sector by factual sources.

  • Electric Vehicles powering your devices, home or the grid

    Electric Vehicles powering your devices, home or the grid

    Electric vehicles (EVs) can be charged at home using the relatively free power of rooftop solar. Many EV brands also have the ability to supply power to devices, specific home circuits or to the power grid.

  • The Big Switch

    The Big Switch

    The Big Switch by Saul Griffith (2022) is an evidence based plan to explain how we can convert to a zero carbon economy in one generation (20 years). Griffith sees this conversion process as a simple substitution process where fossil fuel inputs are replaced with renewable energy inputs. 

  • Book review: The Green New Deal

    Book review: The Green New Deal

    The Green New Deal (2019) by Jeremy Rifkin is a roadmap for building a new economy underpinned by electricity generated through renewable energy from solar and wind technology and managed through smart grids. Building on earlier works The Green New Deal builds on works that Rifkin published in recent years. His popular The Third Industrial…

  • Long Distance Driving with EVs

    Long Distance Driving with EVs

    The majority of trips a suburban driver makes in a day averages 40 kms, which is a round trip number. With this type of driving and having a charger installed at home, it is unlikely for EV drivers to suffer from range anxiety, the fear of running out of power between charging points. But what…