Doron Amiran 
In the early days of the “horseless carriage,” if you wanted to purchase gasoline for your fancy new contraption, you went to a hardware store or blacksmith shop, where someone would fill up a 5-gallon container and pour it into your tank. Of course, in those early days of mechanized transportation, your car may have … Read more
Doron Amiran, CCP | Feb. 24, 2016 Driving a car is useful and often necessary in our society. But we also want the driving experience to be fun. Carmakers have long sought to maximize both the efficiency and fun of their cars by devising ever-fancier ways of shifting from one gear to the next. Manual … Read more
by Doron Amiran, CCP | Jan. 27, 2016 I live on a country road, not too far off the highway. There are many things I love about our one-and-a-half acres of Sonoma County paradise. Birds flit among the trees, and the sunshine dapples the greening grass of springtime. But the highway buzzes incessantly in the … Read more
by Doron Amiran, CCP | Jan. 11, 2016 In 1898, New York hosted an urban planning conference, where delegates from around the world discussed the future of transportation. Although there were only 800 automobiles registered in the US at that time, the auto revolution was imminent. But these august leaders completely missed it, and spent … Read more
by Doron Amiran, CCP | Dec. 4, 20145 Lately I find myself conflicted. This is nothing new, because life is often a struggle to strike a balance between doing what we want, and doing what we know is right. For example, I know that plastic water bottles are needlessly wasteful, but sometimes I am thirsty … Read more
by Doron Amiran, The Climate Center | November 4, 2015 I recently leased an all-electric Fiat 500e, and it is definitely the coolest and most fun car I have ever driven. Not only will it run on Sonoma Clean Power’s local and renewable electricity, but it’s fast, fun, and head-turningly cute. As I was driving … Read more
