To those sick of the hype over electric vehicles such as the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf, shown here, Ron Pernick, co-founder and managing director of Clean Edge says ... get over it. The buzz over electrified transportation is only going to get stronger, he says, with a build-out of high-speed rail networks and a resurgence of streetcars joining the mix.
Dan Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley hopes to see a shift in behavior from personal cars to use of more mass transit, but isn't ready to call it a trend. "There are options there," he says, "but they are not real yet."
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