Royal Dutch Shell places bet on hydrogen cars going mainstream
With the constant din of traffic noise from London’s M25 orbital motorway and the smell of diesel wafting in the air, Cobham service station in Surrey does not feel like Continue Reading
Is Big Oil Underestimating Autonomous Vehicles?
Companies like Tesla, Uber and Google have sparked a lot of interest in the roll out of autonomous vehicles (AVs), or driverless cars, and while it is still early days, Continue Reading
Exclusive: GM plans to build, test thousands of self-driving Bolts in 2018
General Motors Co plans to deploy thousands of self-driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with ride-sharing affiliate Lyft Inc, beginning in 2018, two sources familiar with the automaker’s Continue Reading
Electric Car Sales Undaunted By Low Gasoline Prices
While oil and gasoline prices have traditionally determined the fate of electrified vehicle sales, plug-in vehicles are seeing other forces shaping global markets. When oil prices plunged in 2014, hybrid Continue Reading
Electric car boom spurs investor scramble for cobalt
Investors are buying up physical cobalt anticipating that shortages of the metal, a key component of lithium-ion batteries used in electrical cars, will spur prices to their highest levels since Continue Reading
Volkswagen Forms U.S. Unit for Zero-Emission Vehicles
Volkswagen AG launched a U.S. subsidiary Tuesday designed to oversee $2 billion in investments to promote zero-emission vehicles such as electric cars, a commitment the German auto giant made in Continue Reading
Cheaper renewables to halt coal and oil demand growth from 2020: research
The falling cost of electric vehicle and solar technology will halt demand growth for oil and coal from 2020, according to research published on Thursday, posing a threat to fossil Continue Reading
Electric Cars – An Existential Threat For Oil?
Nobody would have predicted ten years ago, back when everyone was talking about Who Killed the Electric Car, that oil would someday have to fear the future of General Motor’s Continue Reading
Volvo receives order for 8 all-electric buses in UK; OppCharge opportunity charging
Volvo Buses has received an order for eight electric buses, the Volvo 7900 electric, from Transdev Blazefield, the owner of the Harrogate Bus Company in the UK. Operations start in Continue Reading
Why The Electric Car Boom Could Cause Another Oil Price Crash
A 2014-style oil price meltdown could occur again. Only this time, instead of a sudden surge of supply, the culprit will be the fast adoption of electric vehicles, which will Continue Reading