Out of road: driverless vehicles and the end of the trucker
Ramona Saucedo has been on the road for nearly two months, and she’s ready to get back home. Standing in front of a dusty white truck in the parking lot Continue Reading
EEStor Announces High Voltage High Permittivity Dielectric, Completed Million Cycle Testing and Initial Energy Density Results
Breakthrough results on CMBT permittivity at voltage Key energy density results achieved with 100 watt-hour/liter near-term target Independent verification of 1 Million cycle test results EEStor Corporation announced today that Continue Reading
How Tesla Just Tripled Its Earnings In China
Earlier this month, Tesla Inc reported that its revenues in China topped $1 billion in 2016, more than triple the revenues it generated there in 2015. The Chinese market was Continue Reading
Self-driving car numbers double on California roads
The number of autonomous vehicles on California’s roads has more than doubled as carmakers and big tech companies race against secretive start-ups to test their self-driving cars. Two new permits Continue Reading
Norwegian transport sector tapped for fast-charging EV stations
A German utility company said it was launching a collaborative effort to develop ultra-fast charging stations for electric vehicles across Norway. German company E.ON said it was working through partnership Continue Reading
Electric cars: China’s battle for the battery market
The headquarters of CATL, China’s fastest growing battery maker, lie on the edge of the city of Ningde, a stone’s throw from ponds where farmers raise carp and a street Continue Reading
The EV Myth – Electric Car Threat To Oil Is Wildly Overstated
At the outset of the 2014 oil collapse, slacking oil demand growth was often cited as a major contributor to the sharp decline in oil prices. In September 2014, the Continue Reading
Battery Pioneer Debuts New Fast-Charging Battery
The co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery has developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging and longer-lasting rechargeable batteries. John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School Continue Reading
Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes
A team of engineers led by John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has developed Continue Reading
Driving Hyundai’s electrified Ioniq line-up; cost-effective efficiency and dynamics
The Ioniq Hybrid offers up to the highest fuel economy in the US (up to 58 mpg / 4.05 l/100 km) for a non-plug-in vehicle and the Ioniq Electric is Continue Reading
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
Electric Cars Could Cause Big Oil This Much Damage
The growth of battery-powered cars could be as disruptive to the oil market as the OPEC market-share war that triggered the price crash of 2014, potentially wiping hundreds of billions Continue Reading
China, Europe drive shift to electric cars as U.S. lags
Electric cars will pick up critical momentum in 2017, many in the auto industry believe – just not in North America. Tighter emissions rules in China and Europe leave global Continue Reading
Lithium Prices Set To Jump As Tesla Doubles Global Battery Production
Tesla fired up the gigafactory in the first week of 2017, which could mark a turning point for the energy storage industry. The gigafactory in Nevada will begin mass production Continue Reading
Electric Cars: Still Unpopular with Buyers and Unprofitable for Sellers
Tesla, which sells only electric vehicles, has posted a net loss of $550 million so… The car of the future will be electric, connected and, eventually, self-driving. But where does Continue Reading
Could Santa’s Sleigh Go Electric?
Indeed, it’s time to give Santa’s reindeer a break, so this year, rumor has it, they’re just along for the ride as Santa goes electric, pleasing both the animal welfare Continue Reading
Silicon Valley Dominating Self-Driving Tech? Motor City Says Not So Fast
FOR decades, automakers have been able to count on a fundamental fact of American life: You pretty much need a car to get around. But lately, novel technologies, including ride-hailing Continue Reading
Oil Consumption Is Immune To A Transport Transformation
96 percent of new vehicle sales in 2016 featured combustion engines The implementation of electric vehicles and ride-sharing may have long-term effects on oil demand, but the speed at which Continue Reading
The Highly Charged Way to Play Electric Cars
The financial spotlight is on the auto companies that will produce electric cars, especially on… The next automotive revolution will be electric, or so they say. The financial spotlight is Continue Reading
Electric vehicle market footprint growing
Europe and China are expected to dominate the consumer electric vehicle market as the footprint grows into double-digit percent, a market report finds. “Significant advances in battery technology, financial support Continue Reading
Electric Trucking Charges Up
A Nikola One Truck is shown. Heavy-duty electric trucks remain a rare sight on highways,… Officials in Colorado are planning a public-road test of battery-charging technology capable of powering electric Continue Reading
New crosslinked gel electrolytes could create high energy density supercapacitors rivaling batteries
Researchers from Augmented Optics Ltd. and the University of Surrey, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have developed new, crosslinked gel-matrix polymer electrolytes exhibiting measured capacitance values more than Continue Reading
Oil firms and carmakers diverge in costly debate
Many carmakers are predicting a significant shift to electric vehicles in the next decade. Advances in battery technology and the growth of autonomous driving and ride sharing – suited to Continue Reading
WiTricity announces Tunable Matching Network technology; optimization of power transfer between ground and vehicle
Wireless power transfer company WiTricity announced Tunable Matching Network (TMN) technology, which allows the wireless charging system automatically to optimize energy transfer between the ground and vehicle in a wide Continue Reading
Electric Cars Could Take an OPEC-Sized Bite From Oil Demand
A boom in electric vehicles made by the likes of Tesla Motors Inc. could erode as much as 10 percent of global gasoline demand by 2035, according to the oil Continue Reading
Electric Cars Could Take an OPEC-Sized Bite From Oil Demand
A boom in electric vehicles made by the likes of Tesla Motors Inc. could erode as much as 10 percent of global gasoline demand by 2035, according to the oil Continue Reading
London transport operator Go-Ahead adds two Irizar electric i2e buses to fleet after successful operating results
Based on the success of two Irizar 100% i2e electric buses that have been operating in London since June 2015, London’s largest transport operator, Go-Ahead, is incorporating the buses into Continue Reading
Some Volkswagen strategists see battery-electric, diesel cost lines crossing by 2023-2025
The increasing stringency of global emissions standards, both current and projected, is driving up the cost for internal combustion engines to meet those standards, although numerous technology pathways exist. ( Continue Reading
DOE awards $1.1M to Penn State project to develop protective, self-healing layers for Li metal anodes
The US Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office has awarded Donghai Wang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, a $1.1-million grant to develop a new lithium-ion conductor for Continue Reading
Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All But Peaked
IEA forecast has ‘major implications’ for refining industry Oil watchdog sees gasoline demand falling from now until 2040 After fueling the 20th century automobile culture that reshaped cities and defined Continue Reading
Electric drive spooks Japan car executives
Toyota and Mazda — the two Japanese automotive groups most sceptical about electric vehicle technology — have finally revealed plans to mass-produce battery-powered cars. They are late to a game Continue Reading
Electric Cars Provide Little Threat To Oil Demand
Electric Car Chevy is about to release its all-electric Bolt. Tesla will soon put its Model 3 on sale. More than a dozen additional EV models will be launched in Continue Reading
Can Trump Derail The EV Revolution?
The day after the November 8th U.S. presidential election, the stock prices for electric car maker Tesla plunged 5 percent. Solar and wind stocks also fell, while the share prices Continue Reading
Navigant Research ranks EV charging network companies
In a new Leaderboard Report , Navigant Research assesses the business strategy and execution of 12 companies offering public charging networks and EV charging services. Navigant Research estimates the global Continue Reading
T&E report: electric cars sales in Europe doubled in 2015; now at 1% market share
Roughly 145,000 new electric vehicles (EV) were sold in Europe in 2015—double the 2014 tally, according to a recent T&E report . EV sales have now reached the milestone of Continue Reading
ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them
A new white paper from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses which policy actions are behind the regional leading markets in the US for electric vehicles. The white Continue Reading
Tesla buys German engineer for European expansion
Tesla announced an expansion into Europe on Tuesday, acquiring one company and revealing plans to open one or two “gigafactories” in the coming years. The all-electric car company is buying Continue Reading
The IEA Is Skeptical Electric Cars Will End the Age of Oil
Electric cars won’t cause oil demand to peak anytime soon, according to International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol. “The oil demand growth is not coming from cars, it’s from Continue Reading
Electric Cars To Reshape Copper And Oil Demand
Electric Car EVs could demand enough copper, other metals to dwarf oil market fallout: BHP According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, EVs could displace 2 million barrels a day of Continue Reading
ORNL team shows 3D-printed permanent magnets outperform conventional versions, conserve rare materials
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and colleagues have demonstrated that permanent magnets produced by additive manufacturing can outperform bonded magnets made using traditional techniques Continue Reading
Batteries upend Peak Oil debate
If “peak oil” conjures up thoughts of when oil output will reach its maximum then you’re way behind the times. Now it’s all about demand. And rather than a debate Continue Reading