Could VW really be responsible for tens of thousands of deaths from pollution?! VW’s pollution cheating has caused thousands of premature deaths, write Mike Berners-Lee & Chris Goodall, creating costs that could destroy the company’s entire shareholder equity. But this is no ‘Black Swan’ event. It is an early example of the existential threat to
Shell’s departure from the Arctic is a very significant event in the global energy picture, writes Energy Post editor-in-chief Karel Beckman. It is another sign that the End of the Oil Age is in sight. After Volkswagen, a second major European company had to face acute embarrassment this week. Shell did not commit fraud, but
Some good news on renewables – despite government policy. Often when we talk about countries breaking renewable energy records, we focus on momentary spikes caused by exceptionally sunny or windy days. While these records are, in and of themselves, important—they still leave a bigger question hanging: How does the electricity grid cope when the sun
Perhaps the VW emissions scandal will actually do some good. Your new clean diesel turns to be less clean than you thought? Switch to an electric car. In recent days, the loudest thing in the automotive industry is Volkswagen’s scandal over diesel engine emissions. We at InsideEVs don’t cover conventional cars, but there’s something we’d
No surprise here for most EV drivers, but still good to see in black and white. Electric cars charged on the grid generally have a lower carbon footprint than internal-combustion vehicles–and their wells-to-wheels carbon emissions only shrink as more renewable energy comes online. That’s the conclusion of a new study on the environmental effects of
