CSE

Center for Sustainable Energy

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  Blog entry
Post date: Apr 05, 19

Brett Williams, CSE’s Senior Transportation Principal Advisor, was selected to speak at the Connecticut EV Roadmap technical meeting on February 8, 2019. Hosted by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), the goal of the meeting was to better support the development of a self-sustaining EV market in Connecticut and inform policymakers and other stakeholders about the state’s progress thus far.

  Blog entry
Post date: Nov 09, 18

For more than a century, gasoline has been the fuel of choice in the auto industry, but it wasn’t always so—and it doesn’t have to continue that way thanks to modern electric vehicles.

Cars started off using relatively clean energy. Steam powered the first self-propelled road vehicles in the early 1800s, with electric carriages arriving around 1850. It wasn’t until about 1885 that the first true gas automobiles hit the road. As the age of automobiles took off in the early 1900s, electric cars outsold all other types.