Interview with Tom Gage, CEO of AC Propulsion:
AC Propulsion has been around since 1992.  Would you say your company is where the modern era of EV’s began?
Alan Cocconi founded AC Propulsion after working on the project that developed the General Motors Impact EV. GM went on to produce and then crush the EV1. AC Propulsion [...]

We caught up with Ian Wright last week to ask him about his “X-1″ prototype, an all-electric car that ought to be getting a lot of attention.  After all, this car has already been around a few years, long enough, for example, to have beaten the Ferrari 360 Spider and the Porsche Carrera GT in drag races.  The X-1 [...]

With over 50% of the world’s population now living in cities, and with that percentage increasing, along with at least another two billion people projected to be added to global population before it levels off, megacities are destined to rise to complement existing cities.  Some will rise in the middle of empty open space, perhaps offshore [...]

No discussion of environmental policy should ignore the inevitability of an elderly population, but they do.  The interconnectedness of the size of the human population of the planet and the health of global ecosystems is apparent to all, but environmental policy debates treat the population issue as a sideshow, instead of granting it centrality.
Only then can [...]

Back in 2004 it seemed like a Brown / Schwarzenegger regime in California would be an odd pairing.  But why?  Both are intelligent, pragmatic yet outspoken politicians.  Both are lampooned; the Moonbeam, the Terminator.
Now Moonbeam and the Terminator are California’s Governor and Attorney General, not in that order.  And this week, in any case, they are both [...]