It's electric, boogie woogie woogie

The new Nissan North American headquarters building was dedicated yesterday in my old hometown, and the brass on hand for the celebration announced that the future of cars is in electric. GM announced something similar.

I've always been unsure about electric cars because I've always thought of it as trading one kind of energy use for another: you burn gas to make your cars go and most of us get the electricity we'd be using to charge our electric cars from not-so-clean coal-burning plants.

NPR does a very good job of telling me why it is, in fact, a good trade off to use electricity instead of oil. This is a great article full of info I've not seen before.

And while we're on the subject of being smarter about our driving habits, here's an article from Real Simple on ways to use your car more efficiently. Nothing we modern people haven't seen before, but it's always good to have a reminder.