We're experiencing the greatest transformation in the transportation system since the early 1900's when gasoline powered cars triumphed over electric. Lithium battery chemistries have enabled electrified transportation to finally catch up with gasoline, giving designers more vehicle design options. At the same time concerns about the environment, health effects of burning fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, energy security, oil supply, peak oil, land use, resource utilization and more are forcing us to reconsider the design of the transportation system.
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What is 'Green' Transportation?
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Effects of the current system
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Why change the transportation system?
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Well/Mine to Wheel to Air/Ground/Water
Analyzing effects from well to wheel to air (the long tailpipe) Land use impacts of the transportation system
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Fuel types
Types of vehicle drive trains: Hybrid electric vehicles, Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles Electric vehicles are cheaper to drive or operate than gasoline or diesel vehicles |
There are many kinds of Transportation types, each with its own trade-offs and values and roles. Ideally the transportation type chosen for a trip should match the trip being taken. However most are at this time choosing to drive a car when other transportation types would make sense.
What is the true price of gasoline? Should it cost $10 per gallon? |
| Electric Vehicle Charging Systems | Resource availability
Peak oil and the peaking of all resources Neodymium, Dysprosium, and rare earth metals in green transportation Land use impacts
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| Freedom from Oil
Human scale cities and transportation, for cleaner, quieter cities, for healthier people Books and Reports about electric vehicle viability Green Transportation Books and Movies |
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