Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Electric Cars

E-bike batteries are often a lot more subtle than this – and if a new bill passes, electric cycles of all kinds could be ubiquitous on U.S. roads soon. Image: Pixabay via Creative Commons

New Bill Would Help Americans Buy E-Bikes

By Kea Wilson | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

As President Biden gears up to give electric car buyers a federally subsidized discount, Congress must not to forget the other electric vehicle that is even better at saving the planet.

This is the kind of landscape that lithium mining for electric car batteries might destroy. Image courtesy Protect Thacker Pass.

Lithium Mining: The Hidden Environmental Cost of EVs

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 9, 2021 | No Comments

The Green New Deal is clearly better than our carbon-based catastrophic course. But it also depends on massive amounts of lithium — and extracting it will carry a big environmental cost of its own.

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KOMANOFF: Beware the EV Congestion Boomerang

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 8, 2021 | No Comments

So, policymakers, be careful what you wish for when EVs are concerned: If congestion increases because of an exemption for electric vehicles, a primary benefit of congestion pricing disappears.

Hold Your Applause For Car Makers' EV Promises

By Kea Wilson | Feb 3, 2021 | No Comments

General Motors aims to manufacture only electric vehicles by 2035 — but advocates are skeptical that the move will have much of a climate impact without a slate of accompanying policy changes.

Jennifer Granholm, left, and Gina McCarthy, right. Images via Creative Commons.

Unpacking Biden's 'Climate-Change' Cabinet

By Kea Wilson | Dec 17, 2020 | No Comments

Pete Buttigieg drew most of the attention earlier this week, but two other key cabinet appointments this week could signal that electric vehicles remain at the center of the President-elect's climate strategy — despite evidence that transit, walking and biking is far more critical to cutting greenhouse gases.

We Should Question EVs – and Private Car Ownership Itself

By Alexandre Milovanoff | Oct 28, 2020 | No Comments

It almost seems like owning an electric vehicle is a silver bullet in the fight against climate change, but it isn’t. What we should also be focused on is whether anyone should use a private vehicle at all.

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