The world’s largest independent oil trading house, Vitol Group, has formed a $250-million partnership with Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD to provide EV fleet mobility services in select markets worldwide, Continue Reading
A global drive towards electrification of road transport to reduce carbon emissions may cut demand for the world’s oil refining capacity by half in 2050, consultancy Rystad Energy says. “Going Continue Reading
Israel-based StoreDot, the developer of extreme fast charging battery technology for electric vehicles ( earlier post ), has demonstrated a prototype 4680 form factor cell that is fully charged in Continue Reading
DESPITE THE global pandemic and a crippling shortage of silicon chips, German car makers brought a crazy-positive, get-er-done attitude to this week’s opening of the Munich auto show. I guess it’s Continue Reading
At IAA Mobility, during his first in-person keynote since taking the helm of Intel in February, CEO Pat Gelsinger predicted that semiconductors will account for more than 20% of the Continue Reading
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to spend 1.5 trillion yen ($13.7 billion) on the supply and development of batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles by 2030, joining other global automakers boosting Continue Reading
In President Biden’s vision of a green future, half of all new cars sold in 2030 will be electric. But something really basic is standing in the way of that Continue Reading
For years, the rumors of Apple developing a mass market car were just that: rumors. But now it is starting to feel as though we are getting closer to the Continue Reading
The advance of electric vehicles is set to raise electricity demand as consumers will hook more and more EVs to the power grids to charge them. Energy generation and generation Continue Reading
The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has licensed its high-power wireless charging technology for electric vehicles to HEVO. The system provides the world’s highest power levels Continue Reading
