Transportation

What's going on with electric boats?

Arc CEO Mitch Lee on building electric vehicles for lake sports.

Jul 18 •

1:02:19

Parking reform in Washington, parking reform everywhere!

Washington's bold new parking reform bill will make housing more abundant and inspire other states, explain Sightline's Catie Gould and Alan Durning.

May 28 •

1:04:24

Taming the hydrogen hype

Team Electron takes on the hydrogen hype and its underlying motivations.

May 14 •

1:18:34

Electrifying big trucks

Tackling port pollution, financing challenges, and the road to cleaner freight 🚛⚡

Nov 22, 2024 •

1:11:30

Dan Savage on blue America in the age of Trump

Dan Savage joins me on Volts to discuss how NIMBY-captured city leadership is failing Democrats — and why making cities better is the key to building…

Nov 20, 2024 •

1:09:19

How railroads could boost the US energy transition

A conversation with Bill Moyer of Solutionary Rail.

Nov 6, 2024 •

1:13:12

How to cram EV fast chargers into tight urban spaces

NYC’s Revel is trying to build urban EV fast chargers and demand for those chargers (in the form of its own EV rideshare network) simultaneously. In…

Aug 2, 2024 •

1:11:09

EV charging for those without a garage

Gabe Klein of DOE’s Joint Office of Energy and Transportation talks us through new approaches to EV charging for people in multifamily residences in…

Jul 17, 2024 •

54:10

What's up with electric aviation?

CEO Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies walks us through the details of how to design, build, and operate electric planes — first for relatively short…

Jun 19, 2024 •

58:15

Minnesota forces transportation planners to take climate change seriously

A new transportation bill in Minnesota would require that state and municipal transportation planning agencies take the state's climate and VMT goals…

Sep 27, 2023 •

51:49

California's coming transit apocalypse

In a little over a week, California will pass its yearly budget. If it doesn't find substantial new money for public transit, systems across the state…

Jun 5, 2023 •

52:53

The digital circuit breaker and why it matters

The humble circuit breaker is one of the most ubiquitous & overlooked building blocks of the electricity grid. I talk with an inventor/entrepreneur who…

Feb 17, 2023 •

1:07:52

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