Transportation
Run on Less with Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Originally posted on ACT news. Although hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs) have been around since the 1960s, they have recently emerged as a potential solution to decarbonize heavy transport. Nikola Motors just announced it has raised $1 billion in funding for its hydrogen…
Spreading Electric Vehicles Beyond Early Adopters
This blog is the third in a three-part series providing a snapshot of the project teams at the 2019 Mobility Innovation Lab Project Accelerator. The first blog can be read here, and the second blog can be read here. This piece focuses on advancing adoption of electric vehicles…
Decarbonizing Urban Mobility
The past year has seen electric vehicle sales smashing records, transit agencies across the country placing orders for electric buses, utilities and regulators tackling tough questions around charging infrastructure, and governments and the private sector rolling out several long-distance public charging corridors that span the United States. However, a carbon-free…
Why Building Owners Should Care About Increasing EV Adoption
The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is well underway. According to Bloomberg NEF’s Electric Vehicle Outlook 2019 report, US-based EV sales will grow from 2 percent in 2019 to nearly 60 percent in 2040. And more electric cars were sold in the first half of 2018 than all of 2016. Unlike…
On the Road to Clean, Equitable Mobility
The leading transportation electrification projects have a clear beginning and end, but the route in between can be a maze of forks in the road that can easily lead project teams into high congestion. An early pit stop at RMI’s Mobility Innovation Lab (MIL) can redraw the roadmap and put…