Pushing a future

Tesla's primemover sells not on sexiness but on economy

After reading so much doom and gloom about Climate, it is lovely to come across a well-founded, optimistic article about how we can fix so many of our current issues using tech.

The writer, Michael Liebreich, is a heavyweight Yankee consultant at Bloomberg who has been advising business for 20 years about how to navigate the changes now closing in.

He is optimistic that we can innovate our way out of the transport dilemma. He concludes we are already working on it.

“Since replacing expensive fossil fuels with cheap electricity should save money as well as reducing emissions, it does not require much more than short-term pump priming and regulatory alignment, rather than long-term subsidies or a carbon price. A huge market opportunity, that moves us closer to hitting the Paris goals, and that should not require long-term subsidies or a carbon price. What’s not to like?

This paper published this week, is a light wander (10 minute read) through some of those innovations that should shape our world for the good. If you want to look further, links are noted.

 ...and for fun, if you have the time, here is a 15 min YouTube vid exploring what we found to be true about the use of electric bikes when we visited China last year...it is a revolution.