By Jameson Wetmore, Tech Skeptic Goes Electric. Throughout this Substack I’ve been chronicling my day-to-day life with an electric car. Alas the fact that I live in the Arizona desert means that I’ve missed an important topic: What happens to electric cars in the cold?

By Jameson Wetmore, Tech Skeptic Goes Electric. If you’ve followed this Substack for a while you’ve probably noticed that I don’t jump into every new technology as it becomes available. I spend some time studying it… thinking about it… and deliberating before I make a decision. I take my time because I know that when I adopt a new technology, my life is going to change.

By Jameson Wetmore, Tech Skeptic Goes Electric. I usually try to not get too technical here. But I’m afraid that in this post we’re going to dive into a bit of jargon. We’re going to explore a recent EPA invention: “MPGe.”

By Jameson Wetmore, Tech Skeptic Goes Electric. My assumption going into this research was that people buy electric cars in large part because they want to soften the environmental impact of driving a personal vehicle. That, after all, was much of my motivation. In the first post in this series I looked at recent EV advertising and it became clear to me that those marketing electric cars don’t think we’re terribly interested in the environment.

By Jameson Wetmore, Tech Skeptic Goes Electric. I’ve been working for the last few months with ASU student Blake Duprey to study EV advertisements. What we’ve found is that while many of the early proponents of EVs were focused on the environmental benefits of zero emissions at the tailpipe, the mainstream car companies that build electric vehicles don’t spend a lot of time talking about it.