Posted November 19, 2014 by Max Baumhefner
Every year, along with reporters and editors from Car & Driver, Motortrend and other specialty car geeks, I go to the Los Angeles Auto Show and ogle the future of cars. It’s a beauty contest of machines with bright showroom...continued→
Posted September 21, 2014 by Max Baumhefner
Governor Brown just signed the Charge Ahead California Initiative to put 1 million electric vehicles on the roads within 10 years and provide consumers with much needed relief at the pump. If you like the idea of driving on a cleaner fuel...continued→
Posted August 25, 2014 by Max Baumhefner
A child’s drawing posted on the door of Assembly Member Christina Garcia of Southeast Los Angeles, outlines a vision of placing 1 million electric cars, trucks, and buses on California’s streets within 10 years – a vision that moved...continued→
Posted May 27, 2014 by Max Baumhefner
Imagine a California with substantially cleaner air and lower rates of asthma and cancer, especially in disadvantaged communities hardest hit by dangerous air pollution. Then imagine you’d be paying less in fuel costs – the equivalent of about $1 a...continued→
Posted April 30, 2014 by Max Baumhefner
California Senate Bill 1275, authored by Kevin de León, just cleared the Senate's Environmental Quality committee with bipartisan support, and is one step closer to becoming law. This legislation would establish the Charge Ahead California Initiative, which aims to deploy...continued→
Posted February 28, 2014 by Max Baumhefner
Below are remarks I delivered today at an event at the Mt. Hood Ski Bowl, the first ski resort in the country to host a DC fast charger for drivers to get back and forth to the mountain on electricity:...continued→
Posted January 2, 2014 by Max Baumhefner
I’ve previously written on the overlapping consumer interest in clean vehicles and clean energy, describing five pathways to make the connection between the two. Today, Ford unveiled a sixth, covering the roof of a plug-in hybrid C-Max Energi entirely in...continued→
Posted November 14, 2013 by Max Baumhefner
Today, NRDC joins a diverse coalition of community, health, and environmental groups to launch the Charge Ahead California campaign to deploy one million electric cars, trucks, and buses in the state within ten years. The campaign includes the American Lung...continued→
Posted September 18, 2013 by Max Baumhefner
To transform the vehicle fleet, you need to work on both ends — accelerating the purchase of cleaner new vehicles and the retirement of old clunkers. The California legislature is sending a package of bills to Governor Brown’s desk that...continued→
Posted August 5, 2013 by Max Baumhefner
By Max Baumhefner and Cecilia Springer* Uncovering a fraud is uniquely satisfying, which is perhaps why news outlets continue to provide electric car deniers with a platform to proclaim they aren’t as green as they appear. But close examination reveals...continued→
Posted March 12, 2013 by Max Baumhefner
A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed by Bjorn Lomborg, “Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret,” argues that even though driving on electricity emits half as much pollution as driving on gasoline, it never makes up for the additional energy it...continued→
Posted March 5, 2013 by Max Baumhefner
By Felix Kramer* and Max Baumhefner When it comes to consumer products, environmentalists generally don’t encourage people to buy new and buy now. But that’s what we're about to do because electric cars are significantly cleaner than gasoline vehicles, and...continued→
Posted February 16, 2013 by Max Baumhefner
Over the past few days, a debate has unfolded between the start-up electric vehicle company, Telsa, and the New York Times on the subject of a test drive that ended with the car running out of juice. Telsa has released...continued→
Posted February 5, 2013 by Max Baumhefner
Governor Jerry Brown today released a “Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan,” representing the nation’s most comprehensive effort by a state to accelerate the deployment of plug-in electric vehicles. Along with his announcement came the news that UPS took delivery of 100...continued→
Posted January 31, 2013 by Max Baumhefner
If you buy a car that costs over a $1,000 less a year to fuel than most other vehicles, shouldn’t you get better financing terms for potentially having more money to put toward paying off that vehicle? Unfortunately, only one...continued→
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