Transportation
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
If you could choose between two functionally identical fuels to power your airplane, except one produces 60–80 percent less carbon emissions on a life-cycle basis, 100 percent less sulfur emissions, and 90 percent less particulate matter, while also supporting local economies, the better choice should be obvious, right? Sustainable aviation…
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…
Door-to-Downtown: How Boulder, Colorado, Tested the Future of Mobility
Rocky Mountain Institute recently published a report on Boulder, Colorado’s Door-to-Downtown mobility pilot. This report details the rationale, design, operation, and results of the pilot, which offered door-to-door mobility service to downtown Boulder. Click here to download the report. Boulder, Colorado, like many cities around the United…