Monday 20 September 2010

Business Case for CO2 Reduction in Transport

Until there is a government scheme in place that provides a cost-gaming framework for reducing CO2 emissions in Commercial Transport, the movement will languish:

China Mass-to-Individual Transport Strategy

The key question around how China will modernize it's "last-mile" transport strategy is whether or not the central government can build infrastructure faster than Chinese consumers can force market trends--that is, can the central government build this sort of infrastructure before Chinese consumers can buy more gas-guzzlers (obviously, controlling for the policy vs. activism tension that will define the boundaries of the argument).

Thursday 16 September 2010

Very Efficient Vehicles

With a great variety of markets and product channels, we see a direct line between leading edge and common use--fashion, electronics, etc. But, automotive seems perpetually stalled--maybe it is the ecosystem's trend toward entropic paralysis:

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/3-teams-win-fuel-efficient-car-prize/?src=twt&twt=nytimesdealbook

Wednesday 8 September 2010