Prof. Werner Antweiler, Ph.D.
Werner's Blog — Opinion, Analysis, Commentary
Blog Entries: Transportation
- Canada needs better rail, but not high-speed rail (Jun 2)
- How are Canada's electric vehicle imports trending? (May 9)
- Improving road safety and saving lives with Leading Pedestrian Intervals (Apr 2)
- Driving electric has become much more beneficial (Mar 17)
- Germany's zig-zag course of electric vehicle adoption (26 Sep 2025)
- Canada's Zero-Emission Vehicle mandate needs reform, not rescission or derision (27 Aug 2025)
- The transportation emission equation (10 May 2025)
- Electric vehicle adoption in Germany (19 Feb 2025)
- Projecting Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption in British Columbia (27 Aug 2024)
- Where are British Columbia's passenger cars made? And is that picture different for electric vehicles? (15 Aug 2024)
- Closing Translink's Funding Gap (27 Jul 2024)
- What is the optimal fuel tax level? (17 May 2024)
- Will BC need to transition fuel taxes to VKT taxes? (30 Apr 2024)
- EV adoption rates across Canada (25 Nov 2023)
- EV adoption around the world and BC's evolving ZEV laws (13 Oct 2023)
- BC has made it easier for stratas to install EV chargers (8 Oct 2023)
- When are Plug-In Hybrid-Electric Vehicles (PHEV) a good choice? (15 Aug 2022)
- Where in the United States is driving an electric vehicle environmentally beneficial? (21 Nov 2021)
- The state of public EV charging in British Columbia (16 Aug 2021)
- Passenger cars in BC are getting heavier (25 Jul 2021)
- Are EVs already cheaper than gas-powered cars? (21 Jul 2021)
- Will green aviation be powered by hydrogen? (20 May 2021)
- The state of EV adoption in British Columbia (21 Apr 2021)
- The EV tipping point is firmly in sight (22 Jan 2021)
- Electric vehicles are approaching price parity (15 Jan 2021)
- What role does hydrogen have in the future of electric mobility? (28 Sep 2020)
- How much money could be saved by driving electric in Canada? (29 Jul 2020)
- Are electric vehicles safer than their gasoline cousins? (2 Jul 2020)
- The cost components of automobile insurance and the bonus-malus system (29 Feb 2020)
- Towards care-based automobile insurance in British Columbia (6 Feb 2020)
- Canada's rising gasoline demand and the need for more e-mobility (2 Feb 2020)
- The strong case for public automobile insurance (22 Jan 2020)
- Carbon pricing works - but what is the right dosage for the patient? (6 Oct 2019)
- Road Safety "Vision Zero" (16 Sep 2019)
- Will China lead the Electric Vehicle revolution? (8 Aug 2019)
- Fuel Efficiency and Your Driving Style (27 May 2019)
- The strong case for extending SkyTrain to UBC (22 Jan 2019)
- Drone Control Policy (20 Jan 2019)
- BC needs a “right to charge” (27 Nov 2018)
- Electric vehicles will soon run on solid state batteries (24 Nov 2018)
- Trump administration: Make America Guzzle Gas Again (18 Aug 2018)
- The economics of when to leave for work, and important implications for congestion pricing (2 Aug 2018)
- "Speed on green" cameras help reduce traffic accidents (7 Mar 2018)
- What happened to the pass-through from crude oil to gasoline prices in Vancouver? (11 Nov 2017)
- Are electric vehicles always cleaner? (4 Sep 2017)
- How to fix car insurance in British Columbia (25 Aug 2017)
- Reduce the alcohol limit for driving, and boost enforcement (15 Aug 2017)
- Volvo goes electric—will other carmakers follow? (15 Jul 2017)
- How does mobility pricing work? (22 Apr 2017)
- Public Transit and Road Pricing (25 Feb 2017)
- Haphazard road tolling (11 Feb 2017)
- Traffic congestion in Canada (28 Jan 2017)
- Speed enforcement through section control (16 Aug 2016)
- Driving with stop-start systems in Europe (8 Aug 2016)
- How are alternative fuel vehicles catching on in Europe? (16 Jul 2016)
- How to use a Roundabout (1 Jan 2016)
- The Panama Canal turns 101—and expands (15 Aug 2015)
- Are prices at the pump determined by Brent or West Texas? (8 May 2015)
- car2go is popular at UBC (5 May 2015)
- How do crude oil prices affect prices at the pump in Vancouver? (11 Apr 2015)
- Automotive innovation (3 Feb 2015)
- Driver fatigue detection (6 Jan 2015)
- Our automotive future? (6 Jun 2014)
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- Should data centres provide demand flexibility to protect BC's electricity grid? (Jun 8)
- Wind power is growing in British Columbia (Jun 5)
- Canada needs better rail, but not high-speed rail (Jun 2)
- How are Canada's electric vehicle imports trending? (May 9)
- The 2026 oil shock may become larger than you think (Apr 30)
- Improving road safety and saving lives with Leading Pedestrian Intervals (Apr 2)
- Where are BC's LNG exports sailing to? (Mar 27)
- Driving electric has become much more beneficial (Mar 17)
- Today's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court won't end Trump's trade wars (Feb 20)
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