Clik here to view.
Getting conservatives to support EV + PV
[ABOVE] The link and picture from a story about how national parks are adding EV charging stations posted by the Colorado Renewable Energy Society that came through my Facebook feed recently.First, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why everything is political — including EVs
I’m positively gleeful that oil companies haven’t received a penny from me for 14 months. But does my in-your-face activism turn people off? If so — and I’m not sure it does — as far as I’m concernded...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oil & gas where real subsidies are
Ah, gotta love Tesla Motors CO Elon Musk! He always has a comeback, and it’s always spot on. Not much more I can say about the advocacy graphic above than that. In fact, the graphic, and Musk’s quote,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An electric car doesn’t make economic sense anymore
Thanks to absurdly low oil prices ($30 per barrel or less), one of the primary arguments in favor of electric cars — that they are cheaper to fuel — is losing its luster. As a long-time electric car...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I’m down for a Tesla Model 3 — are you?
That’s me, Christof Demont-Heinrich, shortly after my first ‘test’ drive of my brother’s Tesla Model S way back in 2012. So, after talking ‘smack’ about how I was going to get a Chevy Bolt — because...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 reasons affordable 200+ mile EVs will slowly kill the Volt
The arrival of affordable 200+ mile electric vehicles such as the Tesla Model 3, the 2017 Nissan LEAF, and, yes, GM’s own Chevy Bolt, combined with outrageously low gas prices — which hurt EREVs/PHEVs...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EPA and California agency promoting electric vehicles plus solar synergy
The EV Charging & Solar Initiative provides assistance to organizations to procure affordable EV charging stations, with the option to site solar photovoltaic (PV) energy systems. [Photo Credit:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Red states worst, blue states best for solar
The red states above are the least favorable for homeowners going solar while the green states are most home solar friendly, according to the website SolarPowerRocks.Com. The red states are all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You read it first here at SolarChargedDriving: Big Oil, and the internal...
Meanwhile, while most people slept through it, and don’t even know much, if anything, about electric vehicles, EVs are on the verge of killing the internal combustion engine — and sinking Big Oil as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Same old tired, and false, anti-electric car points recycled again and again
So, it’s 2018, and Wired, a supposedly “progressive” media outlet with supposed expertise in new technologies just published an anti-electric car article with a telling headline, ‘The potential...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Report: Fossil fuel industry underestimating disruptive power of electric...
I was just surfing and Googling around on the topic of solar-charged driving, EV + PV, etc. when I came across a very interesting article summarizing a report co-authored by the Grantham Institute at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Number of solar-charged electric vehicles continues to rise
Sean Palmer and Rita Hennessy in front of their solar-charged Chevy Bolt. Quite frequently someone will post to a Chevy Bolt Owner’s Group on Facebook that they are solar-charging their Bolt. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Cheap’ fossil fuels are a myth
My daughter in a field near Nordhausen, Germany with a massive solar farm and multiple wind turbines. This is a common site in Germany. [Photo by Christof Demont-Heinrich]As the graphic above...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S. Congress candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez puts 100 percent renewables...
Julia Cumming [left] interviewing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [right], New York Democratic Candidate for Congress (NY-14), at her “Anger Can Be Power” event at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free gas!
Putting up a home solar system that covers 100 percent of your driving in an electric car is the equivalent of plugging in to free gasoline for up to 20 years after so-called solar “payback”. Yes, you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Electric cars running on 100% renewable energy would = no ozone alerts
An ozone alert asks drivers to carpool or use public transportation. So, I was driving to work this morning in my electric 2017 Chevy Bolt — which I power indirectly from Xcel Energy’s so-called...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rising gas prices mean more interest in electric cars — and solar-charged...
Every time gas prices start to rise, interest in electric cars, and in solar-charged driving, increases. I can literally see this rising interest in increases in traffic to SolarChargedDriving.Com. In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EVs + 100% renewables could stop air pollution — and thereby reduce allergy...
Air pollution in the Greater Los Angeles area. [Wikimedia Commons Photo]I’ve been tested for allergies multiple times across the past few years and always the tests come up negative. Yet I have had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Air pollution is killing 8.8 million people a year: What you can do right now...
Solar-charging electric vehicles is one way to radically reduce air pollution. We have the ability to eliminate air pollution, a global killer that affects more than 90 percent of the world population....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two thirds of Americans support 100% renewable energy by 2030
A 100 percent renewable energy mandate was considered the most important of several options for fighting climate change in a recent Politico poll. Support for 100 percent renewable energy cut across...
View Article