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Articles by Rachael Nealer
The Washington Post Gets it Wrong on Electric Cars
It’s unfortunately not uncommon to see skewed and misleading articles about electric vehicles in the popular press. The most recent example, a Washington Post article “Electric cars and the coal that runs them” by Michael Birnbaum, is a textbook example of how to dismiss EVs by cherry-picking statistics and ignoring current science.
Inner Resilience: Connecting Heart, Mind and Faith
Storm surges flooding a low-lying Pacific island; Arctic villages toppling on the edge of an eroded coastline; relentless downpours destroying homes and livelihoods in India—wherever we live, whatever our values, culture, or politics, climate change impacts intensify the need for resilience. Supporting resilience and adaptation of human communities and ecosystems is an important focus of the climate talks.
So Electric Cars Are Better-Now What?
In our recent report on electric vehicles, we found that battery electric cars produce about 50 percent fewer global warming emissions over their lifetime than similarly-sized gasoline cars. We showed that even with the greater global warming emissions from manufacturing (largely because of lithium-ion battery manufacturing), a battery-electric vehicle still results in significantly lower global warming emissions over its lifetime than its gasoline counterpart.
Electric Vehicles Are Getting Marginally Better, In A Big Way
Where does electricity come from? When you flip a light switch on, you’re getting electricity from somewhere—maybe a spinning gas turbine, or maybe a battery storing excess electricity generated by wind or solar power. When you flip the light switch off, the grid responds by shifting its sources around, ensuring everyone connected is receiving a steady flow of electrons. The complexity of the grid complicates how we measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from an electric vehicle (EV).
Automakers Piloting the Reuse Market for EV Batteries
What happens when the batteries from electric vehicles (EVs) are no longer usable? We could throw them away, sure, but there are other options, including reuse and recycling. Several automakers are piloting efforts in these areas, with promising results. Batteries are retired either because the car itself is retired, usually after 10-15 years on the road, or because the owner wants to replace the battery (though, to date, this isn’t particularly common).
The Latest on EVs: Battery Costs Down and Extended Ranges on the Rise
I’ve been thinking a lot about batteries. That’s not a sentence you hear everyday, but as I’m doing my research at UCS it has become a big priority of mine. Mostly because the lithium-ion battery is the largest difference between electric vehicles (EVs) and gas cars in terms of costs and environmental impacts. Recently, however, we’ve had some exciting news… First, not surprisingly, costs have come down as government and industry have invested more and more resources in battery development.
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