Electric cars attract hype, but reality is less exciting | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Projections from automotive consultancy CSM Worldwide suggest that enthusiasm for electrification has lost all contact with reality.

CSM said it reckons global production of battery and plug-in hybrid vehicles will reach 132,000 in 2015; that's barely featuring on the market radar and a derisory market share of about 0.1 percent. That total includes major manufacturers, but excludes small, niche manufacturers of little city cars like Norway's Th!nk, and the NICE (not internal combustion engine). Hybrids -- that's including so-called strong hybrids like the Toyota Prius, and mild hybrids like the Honda Insight -- will reach just over 3 percent of global production.

California and Fossil Fuels - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Evil, evil oil and coal. Los Angeles Times:

California will spend up to $2,911.1 billion on fossil fuels such as oil and coal between 2010 and 2030, according to a new study released Tuesday by the advocacy group Environment California. Using Department of Energy projections, the group found that the total amount spent on fossil fuel between 2010 and 2030 will amount to almost three times the total earnings of all California workers in 2007. . . .