Transportation
Don’t Be Caught Unprepared for the EV Tsunami
The long years of waiting for electric vehicles (EVs) to enter the mainstream are over. Largely thanks to sharply falling prices, EV sales in the U.S. have been growing at a compound annual growth rate of 32 percent for the past four years, and monthly 2017 sales data suggests that…
Making Transit Apps Work for All
Planning your commute, deciding which bus to catch, and identifying which service is running late at night can all be done at the touch of a button in your favorite transit app. But there’s a lot of information and work that goes on behind that button. And the more coordinated…
Choosing to Ditch the Car Commute: What Helps Office Workers Decide
Which is more valuable, a parking spot at work or help switching to a clean and healthy commute? That is the decision Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) employees in Boulder, Colorado, made ahead of their move to the newly opened Boulder Commons North Building in the Boulder Junction district. Known as…
Report Release: Best Practices for Deploying EV Charging Stations
Vehicle electrification is overwhelmingly beneficial for society as a whole—even for nondrivers. The world doesn’t need any more cost-benefit analyses; they’ve already been done, and they show as much. And we should not doubt that people will buy electric vehicles (EVs). Sales are accelerating so rapidly that Bloomberg New Energy…
Cracking the “Chicken & Egg” Problem to Scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) with those qualities exist today, and they have been proven safe and can be used in existing engines, fuel systems, and infrastructure (and are thus known as “drop-in” fuels).
