Green Steel: Make Electric Vehicles Greener
IGS Blog | President Biden just announced last week that the administration looks to make half of new vehicle sales electric vehicles by 2030.
On-Demand Webinar: Women Leading the Charge in Energy Storage to Advance Renewable and EV Growth
IGS Events | Energy of the Future series
The Postal Service’s Gas-guzzling New Mail Truck: Electric Versions May Be Closer Than They Appear
IGS Blog | The sooner Congress signals—with its wallet—that the future NGDV is electric, the better.
Spring 2021: ISE Energy of the Future Webinar Series
IGS Events | Energy of the Future series
Integrating Electric Mobility Systems with the Grid Infrastructure
On November 6-7, 2019, the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) and the BU Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) jointly held a workshop on “Integrating Electric Mobility Systems with the Grid Infrastructure” at Boston University under the sponsorship of the Sloan Foundation. The workshop brought together more than 30 leaders from industry, […]
The Decade Ahead: Energy, Transportation, and Climate Action
Some decades make their mark more than others. As we cross the threshold of the 2020s, there’s no doubt this decade will be a game-changer for our climate as the stakes grow catastrophically higher with each passing year. If global warming is the ultimate disrupter, how will it fundamentally change our power and water utilities? […]
Integrating Electric Mobility Systems with the Grid Infrastructure
IGS Research | November 2019
The Financial Communication Challenges of New Mobility
New strategies for providing mobility using on-demand shared vehicles, electric vehicles, and the prospect of fully automated vehicles are revolutionizing surface transportation. There is good reason to believe that new systems can increase options for mobility for everyone, cut costs, increase safety, and minimize environmental hazards. Capturing their full potential, however, will require innovations not […]
Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy Develops New City Planning Tools for Electric Vehicle Adoption
“Melting the ICE” provides a first-time analytical framework to guide electric vehicle infrastructural investments BOSTON, MA (June 10, 2019) – With cities at the forefront of electric vehicle (EV) adoption worldwide, Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) is giving municipal decision-makers a detailed blueprint for EV infrastructure planning in the new book Melting the […]
Vehicle Electrification in China: Preferences, Policy, and Technology Trajectories
Harvard Kennedy School Energy Policy Seminar Series, Fall 2017 By Louisa Lund, Program Director, Consortium for Energy Policy Research In the past few years, China has become the world’s biggest market for electric vehicles. At the same time, independent Chinese companies have come to dominate plug-in electric vehicle sales within China. In the Energy Policy […]