What You Need To Know Before You Buy an EV

If you are curious about buying an electric vehicle but do not know how to think about the cost of the vehicle and charging versus your current car, here’s a quick primer: The hot new Tesla Model Y base model costs $50,490. Tesla isn’t currently eligible for a federal...

A Massive Amount of Energy is Hidden in Our Waste

Renewable energy is everywhere. It’s not just from the sun shining, wind blowing, or rivers flowing downstream. It could be in the wood chips below the trees in your backyard, the garbage you threw out last week or in the burrito you didn’t finish at Chipotle. It could be...

The Coming EV Battery Revolution

Bloomberg New Energy Finance believes that by 2040, 58% of all global vehicle sales will be electric. That’s over 55 million electric vehicles being sold annually, up from less than 3 million now. If that comes to bear, it will mark a massive shift away from the dominant internal combustion engine (ICE)...

Book Review: ‘The New Map’ by Daniel Yergin

This week Nexus PMG reviews a compelling new book: The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin.   Yergin won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1992 book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power and is considered the unofficial biographer of the...

Can a Circular Economy Save The Planet?

Most products we use are not made with their end of life in mind. As an example, my takeout order from last night arrived in a plastic and Styrofoam package that will take 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. Proponents of the circular economy ask a simple question:...

Green Hydrogen: The Fuel of the Future?

“Green hydrogen” has the potential to become a major contributor to the decarbonized energy future of the planet.  Hydrogen based fuel cells are cleaner and more efficient than traditional power plants and internal combustion engines and can be used in cars and trucks just like batteries. Hydrogen fuel has...

How Does Biden’s Climate Plan Stack Up?

Image credit: Gage Skidmore Joe Biden’s presidential campaign just released a new climate plan that could dramatically reshape the US economy if implemented. The plan calls for two trillion federal dollars to be invested in clean energy and infrastructure to put the US on a path to zero-carbon electricity...