The Eight Most Common Renewable Energy Myths, Explained
Renewable energy gets talked about more than almost any other household topic, which means a lot of outdated ideas keep circulating long after the technology moved on. Some of these myths once…
Renewable energy gets talked about more than almost any other household topic, which means a lot of outdated ideas keep circulating long after the technology moved on. Some of these myths once…
Most EV advice assumes you have a driveway and an electrician on speed dial. If you live in an apartment, none of that applies. The good news is that owning an EV…
A reader in upstate New York emailed me last winter after losing power for three days during an ice storm. She had been looking at home batteries online for weeks and was…
Buying your first electric car is already a big jump, and choosing between a used model and a new one adds another layer of decisions. This guide walks through the honest tradeoffs,…
EV battery longevity is mostly the result of a few quiet habits repeated for years, not heroic effort. This guide walks through what actually matters on a daily, weekly, seasonal, and yearly…
Third-party charging cables can save money or quietly create real safety problems, and the difference is rarely obvious from a product page. This guide walks through what those cables actually are, which…
A neighbor asked me last spring what going electric would actually cost, all in. She had read three glowing articles and one terrifying one, and she did not know which to believe.…
A reader in Georgia recently asked me what a "real" home battery budget looks like once you stop reading press releases and start reading quotes. The short version is somewhere between $8,000…
The first year of EV ownership is when habits get set, and most of those habits come from how we drove gas cars. A few of them quietly cost you range, money,…