The $100 billion Western rental car industry, flush with cash from a profitable pandemic, is gradually getting its electric show on the road, and Chinese-made vehicles are poised to play Continue Reading
Russia’s size and close integration into the global aviation industry since the end of the Cold War means sanctions related to its invasion of Ukraine are having outsized consequences relative Continue Reading
Ford F 8.38% Motor Co. is reorganizing its operations to create two separate divisions—one for its conventional gas-engine business and another to focus on developing electric vehicles and software. Ford said Wednesday that Continue Reading
Rystad: Ukraine war could wipe out 1 million bpd in local crude demand. Oil demand in both Ukraine and Russia is set to plunge if an end to the conflict Continue Reading
U.S. oil demand rose in December to its highest level since before the coronavirus pandemic began, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Monday, with product supplied nearing 21 Continue Reading
California surpassed 1 million electric vehicles (1,054,095 units)—battery-electric, plug-in hybrid, and fuel-cell electric—sold cumulatively through the 4 th quarter of 2021, according to the California Energy Commission (CEC), making it Continue Reading
The Airbus A380 represents the last superjumbo of a bygone, kerosene-guzzling era. Now the double-decker will serve as the unlikely testbed to help the industry fly into a fuel-efficient future. Continue Reading
Airbus has signed a partnership agreement with CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, to collaborate on a hydrogen demonstration program that will take flight Continue Reading
Ford Motor Co. is exploring options for separating its electric-vehicle operations, with CEO Jim Farley even reportedly considering a spinoff of the unit. Ford Motor Co. is looking at ways Continue Reading
Europe has just introduced a new emissions standard that will go into effect in 2025. Automakers are racing to electrify their vehicles. While Euro 7 may put fear into some Continue Reading
The $5 billion program to create a national network of electric-vehicle charging stations will give priority to interstate highways and fast chargers before expanding into remote rural and crowded urban Continue Reading
A Tesla Model 3 inside the company’s showroom in Shibuya. Tatsuya Arai, a 36-year-old entrepreneur in Tokyo, never saw the appeal of owning a car until he watched a YouTube Continue Reading
Workers load mail into delivery vehicles outside a USPS distribution center in Chicago, Illinois. The U.S. Postal Service said it could buy more electric vehicles if more funding were available, Continue Reading
EV sales accounted for 8.6% of the global light-duty vehicle market, compared to just 2.5% in 2019, as per a new International Energy Agency report. Oil and gas investors will Continue Reading
With the world pivoting towards net-zero emissions, the aviation industry is being forced to adapt. New startups and industry giants alike are racing to create all-electric aircrafts. While aerospace companies Continue Reading
BMW of North America and Electrify America announced an agreement to provide 2022 BMW EV customers with two years of 30-minute complimentary charging sessions at all Electrify America public charging Continue Reading
Volvo Cars and Northvolt have selected Gothenburg, Sweden to establish a new battery manufacturing plant which will commence operations in 2025, and complement the planned R&D center that both companies Continue Reading
Over the past few years, EV makers have been touting solid-state batteries as the next breakthrough in EV technology Toyota now officially leads the charge to mass produce solid-state batteries Continue Reading
As the world attempts to transition away from fossil fuels, demand for oil from transport and energy generation is sure to decrease at some point. One sector that will have Continue Reading
Ford’s all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup can power homes in a U.S. first offering in which customers will be able to power their homes with an electric truck, the car manufacturer Continue Reading
An employee checks a Volkswagen ID.5 eSUV at a factory in Zwickau, Germany. Automakers and analysts often wonder when U.S. electric car sales might one day take off after years Continue Reading
The next commodity supercycle could start and end with Chinese graphite, the single most important battery material right now in terms of supply and demand. And one of the world’s Continue Reading
Tourism is a key contributor both to global GDP and global emissions. There have been calls for a major reboot of the sector following Covid-19. Airlines are now able to Continue Reading
Joe BidenPhotographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg Lawmakers who support the rival petroleum and ethanol industries have joined forces to oppose the Biden administration’s push to electrify the federal vehicle fleet, marking a Continue Reading
Wisk, a leading Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company and developer of the first all-electric, self-flying air taxi in the US, has secured $450 million in funding from The Boeing Company, Continue Reading
U.S. crude oil exports have jumped in recent weeks as America leads supply growth amid steady and resilient global demand, according to commodity analytics provider Kpler, cited by Reuters . Continue Reading
The IEA raised its demand growth estimates by 200,000 bpd for both 2021 and 2022 The market is tighter than expected, the agency said, but still warned that there would Continue Reading
Electrify America EV charging stations on display at AutoMobility LA in November. Stay on top of the electric car revolution by signing up to our Hyperdrive newsletter here . Frequent Continue Reading
A rendering of the liquid hydrogen powered FlyZero passenger jet concept A U.K.-backed research group unveiled a design for a liquid hydrogen-powered airliner theoretically capable of matching the performance of Continue Reading
Moscow, Russia, currently runs 1000 electric public electric buses on 66 bus routes, giving it the distinction of operating the largest e-bus fleet in Europe and America. This year the Continue Reading
Platts Seasonal heating demand, lean supplies lend support FOB Singapore jet fuel/kerosene cargo breached the psychologically important $100/b mark for the first time in more than seven years at the Continue Reading
The Ford Mustang Mach-E electric car can hit 60 miles an hour from a standstill in 3.5 seconds. Fergal McGrath prefers to keep the needle stuck at a grandfatherly 40 Continue Reading
A team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has completed a literature review on the potential value of EV managed charging. Their findings, published in Energy & Environmental Science Continue Reading
BP says its fast electric vehicle chargers are on the cusp of becoming more profitable than filling up a petrol car. The milestone will mark a significant moment for BP Continue Reading
Northvolt Chief Executive Peter Carlsson wants to take on his old boss Elon Musk with the greenest electric vehicle batteries in the world. But he needs to start producing them Continue Reading
Battery Resourcers, a vertically integrated lithium-ion battery recycling and engineered materials company, plans to open a commercial-scale, lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Covington, Ga. When the 154,000-square-foot facility is fully Continue Reading
Global airline passenger capacity rose 9% year on year in 2021 but was still 35% below the pre-pandemic level in 2019, with passenger volume lowest since 2009-2010, flight and data Continue Reading
Volkswagen drove forward its transformation into a sustainable, software-centric mobility group in 2021 and approximately doubled its deliveries of battery-electric vehicles (BEV) year-on-year to 452,900 units. These now account for Continue Reading
Stay on top of the electric car revolution by signing up to our Hyperdrive newsletter here . Welcome to 2022 from Beijing. After the explosive growth last year in China’s Continue Reading
For much of last year, established automakers like General Motors and Ford Motor operated in a different reality from Tesla, the electric car company. G.M. and Ford closed one factory Continue Reading
Highlights Chrysler to offer first pure EV in 2025, go all-electric by 2028 Turkey’s TOGG revealed country’s first two EVs for availability in late 2022 GM, Mercedes-Benz, BMW among other Continue Reading
The Biden Administration is struggling to walk the line between its ambitious green energy plans and the reality that the world still runs on oil and gas. The energy crisis Continue Reading
At CES 2022, Vietnam-based VinFast announced its new development strategy and revealed its complete electric vehicle lineup covering five segments. VinFast said will stop producing vehicles with internal combustion engines Continue Reading
The stock price for electric truck company Rivian fell below the price of its initial public offering after Amazon said it would also buy electric delivery vans from Chrysler owner Continue Reading
13 new battery cell gigafactories are expected to come online in the U.S. by 2025. The next decade will be defined by a massive increase in utility-scale storage GM, Ford, Continue Reading
Volkswagen ID.3 electric cars inside a delivery tower at the automaker’s factory in Dresden, Germany. Volkswagen and Toyota are coming for Tesla, laying out $170 billion worth of investments to Continue Reading
Mary Barra speaks next to the new Chevrolet Silverado EV at CES 2022. General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra showed off the company’s electric Chevrolet Silverado at the Continue Reading
General Motors Co. GM -4.56% showed off an electric Chevy Silverado. The Chrysler brand is ditching gas engines and going to an all-electric lineup. And Japan’s Sony Group Corp. SONY 0.02% plans to jump into the electric-vehicle fray, creating its Continue Reading
Airline fuel efficiency stayed high in 2021 due to pandemic lull Airline traffic in Europe is expected to recover to 70%-90% of pre-pandemic levels in 2022, according to the European Continue Reading
Sony Group Corp. said it would create a car unit and explore entering the electric-vehicle market, in another sign of how the electronics and car businesses are overlapping. At the CES Continue Reading
