Transportation
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).
Don’t Start Your Engines: EVs Are off to the Races
Summer is generally a time for long weekends and vacations, but the electric vehicle juggernaut doesn’t share this proclivity to pause. Vehicle manufacturers are quickly pivoting to the rapidly emerging electric vehicle (EV) market. Volvo announced on July 5, 2017, that all of its new vehicles will contain an electric…
India’s Mobility Leapfrog
While the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement may seem to have steered global climate action into the breakdown lane, India is signaling a switch to the fast lane that could define the transition to low-carbon mobility in emerging economies. In March 2016, Minister Piyush Goyal set India’s sights on…
