A Farewell to Fossil Fuels: Answering the Energy Challenge

In this article published in Foreign Affairs, Amory Lovins describes a U.S. transition from fossil fuels--a blueprint detailed in Reinventing Fire-- that requires pursuing transformational change in automotive efficiency, design of buildings and factories, and the electric system.

 

Reinventing Fire Transportation Sector Methodology

This document provides RMI's methodology for the analysis of the transportation sector in Reinventing Fire.

 

Ultralight Vehicles: Non-Linear Correlations Between Weight and Safety

Development of dramatically lightweight and fuel-efficient vehicles has been slowed by perceptions that lighter vehicles are less safe. This conference paper describes RMI's virtually modeled ultralight concept vehicle that met NHTSA safety requirements, and shows how lightweighting the fleet can accelerate progress towards “Triple Safety”—protection from climate change, drivers themselves, and other road users.

 

Preface to the Chinese Edition of Winning the Oil Endgame

In the preface to the Chinese edition to Winning the Oil Endgame, Amory Lovins puts the book in context for the Chinese audience. Winning the Oil Endgame offers a strategy for ending US oil dependence.

 

Triple Safety: Lightweighting Automobiles to Improve Occupant, Highway, and Global Safety

This paper explores how lightweighting vehicles can improve the safety of vehicle occupants and highway users as well as environmental health. The author posits solutions that enhance vehicle performance and reduce environmental impacts, and focuses on demonstrating the ability of lightweight vehicles to provide such a solution. SAE Paper 2008-01-1282 © 2008 SAE International. This paper is posted on this site with permission from SAE International. As a user of this site, you are permitted to view this paper on-line, and print one copy of this paper at no cost for your use only. This paper may not be copied, distributed or forwarded to others for further use without permission from SAE.

 

Dust to Dust's Assumptions About the Prius and the Hummer

To check the results presented in "Dust to Dust," a life cycle analysis that claims to show that a Hummer has less environmental impact than a Prius, RMI authors manipulated Argonne National Labs automotive life cycle analysis model to incorporate some of "Dust to Dust's" stated assumptions. The model found that, even including known "Dust to Dust" assumptions, the Prius still has less environmental impact over it's lifetime

 

Legislative Options to Improve Transportation Efficiency

This white paper provides state legislatures with options to improve vehicle transportation efficiency within the state. Traditional policy prescriptions that rely on prices, taxes, or quotas are well known, but politically fraught, and have led to gridlock at the federal level.

 

Follow-up to Oral Testimony at Hearing to Examine the Rise of Domestic Energy Prices

This letter was written as a follow up to the oral testimony by Amory Lovins to the Congressional Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The letter outlines measures that would have a significant effect on U.S. demand for conventional petroleum.

 

Winning the Oil Endgame: Executive Summary

The Executive Summary of Winning the Oil Endgame briefly outlines RMI's strategic plan to end oil dependence by the 2040s.

 

Hypercars, Hydrogen, and the Automotive Transition

Lightweighting is the key to making vehicles superefficient and safe. In this invited technical review paper in the International Journal of Vehicle Design, Amory Lovins and David Cramer explain why, using as an example Hypercar's 2000 virtual design of the Revolution 99-mpg SUV. The paper also shows how Hypercar's Fiberforge process promises to achieve that goal at competitive cost, and how this manufacturing breakthrough can accelerate an exciting new stage in automaking and the emergence of the hydrogen economy.

 

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