David Zipper November 14, 2024 2024, Fast Company Forget about EV range—and focus on this instead David Zipper November 14, 2024 2024, Fast Company EV companies should talk more about vehicle efficiency — and less about range and acceleration
David Zipper October 30, 2024 2024, CityLab Is Denver’s Big Bet on E-Bikes Paying Off? David Zipper October 30, 2024 2024, CityLab I visited Denver to draw lessons from the first US city to offer e-bike rebates. TLDR: It’s working well!
David Zipper September 3, 2024 2024, Vox Electric vehicles are the future. What happens to our gas-guzzling cars? David Zipper September 3, 2024 2024, Vox As rich countries snap up EVs, they could flood the Global South with aged gas guzzlers. That's a problem.
David Zipper September 2, 2024 2024, The Verge What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future David Zipper September 2, 2024 2024, The Verge Even if self-driving cars work perfectly, they're likely to increase emissions and crash deaths
David Zipper August 28, 2024 2024, Slate, Featured How America Can Break Its Highway Addiction David Zipper August 28, 2024 2024, Slate, Featured Here's how the US can kick its wasteful, destructive habit of building ever-wider highways
David Zipper July 29, 2024 2024, Vox The big lie behind America’s ever-expanding highways David Zipper July 29, 2024 2024, Vox US transportation officials claim that widening highways will help solve climate change. That’s absurd.
David Zipper July 28, 2024 2024, Slate Will the Autobahn Finally Get Speed Limits? David Zipper July 28, 2024 2024, Slate Germany is having second thoughts about blazing-fast autobahn driving
David Zipper May 21, 2024 2024, Vox The misleading, wasteful way we measure gas mileage, explained David Zipper May 21, 2024 2024, Vox Americans have been thinking about fuel economy backwards — and mucking up climate policy as a result
David Zipper April 28, 2024 2024, Vox The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars David Zipper April 28, 2024 2024, Vox Instead of counteracting car bloat, federal policy has encouraged it
David Zipper February 28, 2024 CityLab, 2024 What E-Bike Rebates Can (and Can’t) Do David Zipper February 28, 2024 CityLab, 2024 A new study explores the power and limits of e-bike rebates, offering tips to maximize their effectiveness
David Zipper November 15, 2023 2023, The Verge Uber failed to help cities go green — will robotaxis, too? David Zipper November 15, 2023 2023, The Verge Like ridehail, robotaxis are more likely to damage the environment than repair it.
David Zipper October 31, 2023 2023, Vox Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts David Zipper October 31, 2023 2023, Vox Norway’s massive EV subsidies have had unintended consequences
David Zipper October 19, 2023 2023, Fast Company Estonia’s capital made mass transit free a decade ago. Car traffic went up. David Zipper October 19, 2023 2023, Fast Company Tallinn, Estonia started offering fare-free transit in 2013. It’s accomplished basically nothing.
David Zipper September 7, 2023 2023, CityLab Rethinking Roadkill David Zipper September 7, 2023 2023, CityLab I spoke with Bel Goldfarb about his new book: Crossings, How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
David Zipper July 19, 2023 2023, The Atlantic EVs Are Sending Toxic Tire Particles into the Water, Soil, and Air David Zipper July 19, 2023 2023, The Atlantic Tire pollution is already harming wildlife and human health. Heavy, overpowered EVs will make the problem worse.
David Zipper July 7, 2023 CityLab, 2023 The Untapped Power of E-Bike Rebates David Zipper July 7, 2023 CityLab, 2023 E-bike rebates are fantastic. So why do cities and states make it so hard to get one?
David Zipper June 1, 2023 2023, The Atlantic Biden Is Ignoring the Menace of Mega-EVs David Zipper June 1, 2023 2023, The Atlantic President Biden and USDOT are ignoring the growing menace of oversized EVs
David Zipper March 22, 2023 2023, Slate The Planet Can Do Better Than the Electric Car David Zipper March 22, 2023 2023, Slate At long last, environmental groups are pushing for less driving
David Zipper February 24, 2023 2023, Fast Company The Blatant Greenwashing of SUVs David Zipper February 24, 2023 2023, Fast Company For decades, carmakers have tried to convince us that SUVs and nature go hand in hand. They don’t.
David Zipper February 8, 2023 Fast Company, 2023 Self-driving Cars Would Be a Climate Disaster David Zipper February 8, 2023 Fast Company, 2023 Autonomous vehicles would be terrible for the planet— no matter how efficient their computers become
