Sustainable Transportation Lab


July 8, 2022

Are high interest rates undercutting the case for EVs?

At first glance, high gas prices should be driving increased demand for EVs. The basic intuition is: EVs cost more up front, but save you fuel expenses over time; the larger the spread between the cost of driving with gas and the cost of driving with electricity, the more attractive EVs become. But as Liam…


July 7, 2022

Will bad infrastructure sink the EV market?

Yesterday the UW got a visit from Ford, and I got the chance to check out a couple of the company’s new electric offerings. First up was the Mustang Mach-E. The Mach-E has been in production since 2020 and I’d previously driven one at a conference last fall: But this one was special: it was…