Electric vehicles are no longer a niche option in Juneau and across Southeast Alaska. Nearly one in ten Juneau households now owns an EV or plug-in hybrid, drawn by lower operating costs, reliable performance in cold weather, and the region’s abundant and generally low-cost renewable electricity. For many families, EVs are a practical response to…
Category: Electric Vehicles
Why Not Juneau?
Sure, Juneau’s Capital Transit public electric ‘test bus’ didn’t shake out that way that we were expecting. Issues with Proterra as a supportive business partner plagued the project from early on and led to a temporary stalling out of the electrification our public fleet. Despite what many consider a failure, valuable lessons have been learned….
Your Anti-EV Arguments Are Baseless
Change is the name of the EV game. What? Huh? What about those evil lithium mines? What about all those horrible carbon emissions from electric vehicle battery production? What about… True, the fossil fuel industry is clean and tidy, kinda like my clothes closet, a small space in my house that both my wife and…
North Carolina Bill Would Mandate Removal of Free EV Chargers
Did you enjoy the climate change based, political satire, ‘Don’t Look Up’? It seems that many found it hilarious (me included)! Others were appalled, the reality of the movie’s politics hitting just too close to home and acting as an in-your-face reminder of just how grim our situation is. I laughed my head off during…
Future EVs: Every Electric Vehicle Coming Soon
So many options that it may become hard to decide! It could come down to price, battery range, or maybe just simple availability! With the nation soon to be scrambling to get in on the EV party, wait lists for entry could be very, very long! These EVs are in various stages from concept to…
Join the 3rd session of the AARP / JCOS 5-part ‘Carbon Footprint’ series! Wednesday, April 6
‘Reducing Our Carbon Footprint‘ is a five-part webinar series led by the Juneau Commission on Sustainability and AARP Alaska Community Action Team volunteers. The series focuses on steps that people can take to reduce their carbon footprint and build climate-resilient communities. The next webinar installment “We’re Runnin’ on Rain – Exploring Electrified Transportation” is Wednesday,…
The Year of the Electric Pickup
It’s shaping up to be the year of the electric pickup truck. Both the Rivian R1T and GMC Hummer EV are now reaching paying customers, and the Ford F-150 Lightning is entering production this spring. Ford has so many reservations for it—200,000 at last count—that they’ve adjusted production targets from 40,000 to 150,000 units annually. I’ve never really needed a truck, or…
The White House wants a robust electric vehicle charging network. Here’s the plan.
The Biden administration recently announced a multi-billion dollar plan to beef up the nation’s electric vehicle charging system. The White House has pledged $7.5 billion from a bipartisan infrastructure law to go toward improving and increasing the national charging network. The plan would create new public chargers both for local commuting and longer-distance traveling. The announcement comes…
Skagway works to pioneer one of the first electric ferry programs in the country
The Skagway Assembly passed a resolution that establishes an electric ferry pilot program. The resolution comes on the heels of a major announcement by the federal government that $250 million of the roughly $1 trillion federal infrastructure bill would be earmarked for such programs, with at least one of them in Alaska. Skagway’s ferry committee…
Electric Ford F-150! EV Game Changer?
$33,000 after rebate? Really? Ford sold nearly 800,000 F-series trucks in 2020. If they can convince truck-loving Americans that the electric 150 is really all that it appears to be, the market shift could rock the nation! Ford unveiled an electric version of its best-selling F-150 pickup truck Wednesday. Based on the specs released so…