Saving Money? Always a Great Plan!
Thank you to Bernadette Balics for her contributions to this article! Incentives have always played a huge role in the adoption of new technologies. Eventually, prices come down as volume increases and innovations like electric cars, electric heat pumps, and renewable energy become commonplace. While…
Annual Polar Bear Ride Jan 1st 2021
Start the New Year right! Join The Bike Campaign for this year’s Polar Bear bicycle ride on the Davis and Woodland bike loops! RAIN / SHINE / HAIL OR SNOW WE WILL RIDE! This is a self-guided ride: Friday, January 1st, 10am. You may start…
Driving on Sunshine 2020 Highlights the EV/PV Connection
Starting September 26th through October 4th, Cool Davis combined National Solar Tour and National Drive Electric Week events into our own local extravaganza — Driving on Sunshine! The combination and connection to these events allowed us to feature our local activities on national platforms in…
City asks residents to take bicycle survey
The city of Davis is asking residents and anyone familiar with biking in Davis to take the League of American Bicyclists survey to help rank the city’s bicycle friendliness. This survey is meant to provide context for the LAB’s decision-making process, as well as valuable…
Per Capita Davis: Reimagining the railroads
Back in 2016, Bill McKibben wrote the foreword for a book, the principal author of which is Bill Moyers, titled “Solutionary Rail — A people-powered campaign to electrify America’s railroads and open corridors to a clean energy future.” My neighbor across the street, a train…
Per Capita Davis: When innovation goes off the rails
For some time now the columns I’ve been writing were born out of the urgent discussion that started in the spring over how we earthlings will move forward from the pandemic. Would we learn anything from our experience about the value of and need for…
City adds more bike lockers at train station
The city has added 12 more BikeLink lockers at the Davis Depot. The new lockers provide secure parking for bikes up to 84 inches long, serving many of the longer-style bicycles, according to the city. The two-story lockers feature a lift-assist so bicycles can easily…
Per Capita Davis: More about hydrogen
The prior column was about hydrogen, specifically hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles, but there wasn’t room, only 900 words, to talk about both the obstacles hydrogen faces and also some of the potentially positive developments for the future of hydrogen as a fuel. So, this…
Driving on Sunshine Week: Program and Resources
Driving on Sunshine Program and Videos Sept 26th – Oct 4th, 2020 ONLINE and FREE
Pairing Electric Vehicles with Solar: the EV/PV Life with “Tarry Scoot”
For more about electric vehicles and incentives, visit our Drive Electric webpage. For Jon Bjornstad, the decision to install solar panels on his home was not necessarily about saving money. He’s not opposed to saving money and not in a position to ignore a good financial…
Per Capita: To the moon and back
Whether technology can save us from the climate crisis is an open question. It seems relatively certain that improvements in technology will inevitably at least help reduce carbon emissions, or maybe even capture some of them from the atmosphere, but hoping for or anticipating a…
May Is Bike Month Bingo Contest for Students
Bike Bingo Contest Week 4 – May 24 – 30
Bicycling During a Pandemic: Joy, Beauty, and Community on Two WheelsÂ
As spring arrives with warmer weather, and folks are itching to escape from their homes where they’ve been sheltering in place for a while, the natural world is going to become a living room without walls. One activity that people can still enjoy during this…
Generous Grants for Used Electric Vehicles
Used EVs can also be surprisingly affordable: some are under $10,000! For income-eligible Californians, the new Clean Vehicle Assistance Program offers grants for eligible used vehicles, including hybrids and “plug-in hybrids”
Per Capita Davis: Some good news in a time of anxiety
I’ve been thinking a lot about “sustainability” the last few weeks and intended to write about it. But that would take me down a sort of dark road, and in these strange times I feel a need for something positive, lighter, hopeful. So here is some…
Per Capita Davis: Putting gas guzzlers in the rear-view mirror
So how’s it going with efforts to turn the auto industry into makers of primarily electric vehicles and getting drivers the world over out of their fossil-fuel cars and trucks? There are many moving parts to making such a huge change and to date it’s…
EV&Me: Shine Nah and Her 2017 Chevrolet Volt
For more about electric vehicles and rebates, visit our Drive Electric webpage. The Owner/Driver Name: Shine Nah Age: 21 Occupation: Student The Vehicle Year/make/model: 2017 Chevrolet Volt Type: Plug-In Hybrid Years owned: 3 years The Experience What made you decide to go electric and how did you decide what car to get?…
What I Learned about Used EVs: A Brief Guide for Beginners
For more about electric vehicles and incentives, visit our Drive Electric webpage. I love my 2016 Chevy Spark! I purchased it used for $10,000, and, so far, I’m very happy with it. Although Chevrolet discontinued its manufacture just a few years ago, the model lives on…
Donate Your Dirty ICE to Cool Davis
This year is the 10th anniversary of Cool Davis! We submitted our incorporation papers on June 14, four days after the completion of the City’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, which is now in the process of an update. We plan to celebrate! Read our…
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February 20 5 to 6:30pm 604 2nd Street
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