Here is is a story from history – or August 9, 2007, to be precise. “Ken Livingstone has ordered a feasibility study into a scheme which would see travellers hiring and dropping off bikes from street corners. The Mayor of London has been inspired by a scheme that was introduced in Paris just weeks… Continue reading
Posts by Gareth Huw Davies
Will the Bug be a beacon for electric power?
How are electric vehicles (EVs) to catch on? Make them small, delicate and vulnerable like the G-Wiz and people only feel sorry for them. Build them mainstream and blandly family-focused like the excellent Nissan Leaf and you’re unlikely to even notice them on the street. The slick super performers like the Tesla Roadster are top… Continue reading →
Making Hay, with an electric connection
Here’s a challenge to the Hay festival organisers. Something to set up for the 2012 event, perhaps? Start a campaign to make it possible for at least some of the very many celebrity guests to travel from London (where I assume most begin their journeys) the 184 miles to this small town in the Welsh… Continue reading →
Car plant to generate enough solar power to make 7000 cars a year.
There’s nothing like a wind turbine to excite local passions, and fill village halls to bursting with angry villagers who have nothing against renewable energy except that they don’t want it here. Solar panels are harder to oppose. The best opponents of one particular scheme close to where I live could come up with was… Continue reading →
More efficient solar panels catching carbon's shadow
It’s been hard to feel particularly positive about the state, and future, of the planet over the past few days. Record global CO2 emissions, after a fall during the recession. Germany easing back on nuclear power. Ongoing climate change denial among the crazy right in the US. And in the UK, a huge number of… Continue reading →
Buying electric cars for staff use, councils could slash costs
Could local councils persuade their staff to use electric cars in order to cut costs? Consultant Stephen Cirell floated the radical plan in MJ, the local authority magazine. This is his proposal. Currently the mileage rate many, and probably most, councils pay staff is well over the figure recommended by the Inland Revenue. But staff… Continue reading →