Category: Electric Vehicles

  • Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5”, Part 4 – Potpourri

    And now, the final segment of our video interview with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane. This episode, “Potpourri”, featuring a variety of your questions. Topics include: Bikes on MAX cars – are there ways to add capacity? Bike parking and bikeshare at MAX stations TriMet’s take on carbon emissions – what will it take to get to…

  • The Explosion of Vehicle Sharing Options

    I’m now a member of three car-sharing systems. Not that I use any of them very often. We’re a one-car household, but generally I can arrange most of my must-use-an auto trips so that I can borrow my partner’s hybrid (and she is very clear it’s HERS). But maybe a dozen times a year, I…

  • Electric Motorways?

    University of Washington researcher Jerry Schneider points to a Swedish company (Elways) researching the concept of “electric motorways”–highways equipped with electric lines which can be used to energize and power vehicles traveling thereon. Elways proposed architecture consists of buried third-rail power, accessed by lowering a pickup shoe into a channel embedded in the road surface;…

  • The Electric Trolleybus: a Sustainable Choice for Portland

    One thing I noticed my years living in Seattle was how much that city loves to copy Portland’s innovations. Government officials were constantly taking tours of Portland and bringing back ideas, many of which have borne fruit. Seattle now has a streetcar line, for example, and has just recently decided to start working on Neighborhood…

  • Electric Vehicle Celebration Day 2011

    Tomorrow, July 9 2011, the Oregon Electric Vehicle Association will be presenting Electric Vehicle Celebration Day 2011 at Pioneer Courthouse Square from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM. The event is a “summer event that OEVA organizes to display our vehicles and educate the general public about EV benefits.”