Germany’s government is increasing pressure on its car makers to invest heavily in electric cars as well as battery production in Europe to safeguard jobs in Germany during a rapid Continue Reading
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can be economically attractive as commuter cars in city traffic. Attractiveness fades for longer-distance traveling due to larger battery packs, a smaller efficiency advantage, and more Continue Reading
Just days after Elon Musk’s not-so-well-received April Fool’s tweet that spoke of Tesla’s imminent bankruptcy in jest, one analyst is predicting that that doesn’t seem so foolish after all. The Continue Reading
Nearly a decade ago, I talked about the concept of “peak oil.” Simply put, this theory states that global oil production will hit a maximum level before declining. When oil Continue Reading
Numerous studies have tackled the future environmental impact of battery-electric vehicles; the resulting assessments are highly uncertain. Now, a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, with Continue Reading
Hitachi Europe Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office Continue Reading
Electric vehicle makers have largely relied on aluminum to make their cars lighter in hopes of offsetting the weight of the battery pack and reducing overall weight in order to Continue Reading
SF Motors has become the latest Chinese-owned company to unveil plans to break into the US electric vehicle market, at a time when a growing tech threat from China has Continue Reading
Hyundai Motor’s ( 005380.KS ) union chief warned its workers may face a similar crisis to the one hitting General Motors’ ( GM.N ) South Korean unit as sales in Continue Reading
Driving an electric vehicle (EV) has obvious climate benefits: zero tailpipe emissions. But because EVs are charged by power grids that burn fossil fuels, they aren’t necessarily zero-carbon. An EV’s Continue Reading
