New Battery Design Could Crush Tesla
We all know the story behind Fisker, it was one of the world’s first plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in 2008, and even had a legal spat between Tesla, but shortly Continue Reading
Elon Musk Plugs New Truck Even as Model 3 Faces Delays
Tesla has been teasing images of the truck it plans to unveil on Thursday. ‘It can transform into a robot, fight aliens and make one hell of a latte,’ Chief Continue Reading
Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center to study societal acceptance of connected and automated vehicle technologies
Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) announced five new research projects focused on better understanding how drivers use and respond to advanced vehicle technologies, including automated driver assistance systems. The Continue Reading
Ipsos RDA study finds traditional US dealerships often not prepared for EVs
A new study by market research company Ipsos RDA has found that the EV sales process at traditional brand dealers who sell EVs alongside other vehicles, has, in many instances, Continue Reading
EVs Won’t Stifle Oil Demand Anytime Soon
There will be 280 million EVs on the roads in 2040, up from 2 million today—but even this increase won’t be able to stifle crude oil demand, the International Energy Continue Reading
China’s electric car push set to trigger ‘war of attrition’
New Chinese rules mandating a boost in electric vehicle production are raising fears of a glut of battery-powered cars that carmakers will be hard pressed to sell. Regulations adopted in September Continue Reading
Goldman: Automated Trucks To Cost 300k Jobs Per Year
Silicon Valley startups, technologists, and venture capitalists see great potential in the technology—even more than most traditional trucking companies are supporting. For months, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has put out Continue Reading
Geely acquiring flying car startup Terrafugia
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Terrafugia, a US-based company developing practical flying cars.Terrafugia was founded in 2006 by five MIT graduates; since then, the Continue Reading
DRIVEtheARC EV fast charging corridor opens in Nor Cal; 55 new fast chargers at 25 locations
DRIVEtheARC, a corridor of electric vehicle (EV) fast charging stations spanning from Monterey to Lake Tahoe, announced the completion of the chargers’ deployment and its official grand opening on the Continue Reading
Fisker files patents on solid-state battery technology; anticipating automotive-ready from 2023
Fisker’s scientists, including a co-founder of solid-state battery start-up Sakti3 (acquired by Dyson, earlier post ), filed patents this week (under a non-publication request) on flexible, superior energy density solid-state Continue Reading
Are Electric Cars As Clean As They Seem?
The concept of bunking the traditional engine for a non-gas guzzling counterpart has been here for decades, but creating an ecosystem for battery charging and bringing vehicle costs down was Continue Reading
EV corridor will stretch from Norway to Italy
German utility company E.ON and a mobility service provider said Friday they would work to establish an electric-vehicle corridor linking Norway to Italy. With $11.6 million in funding from the Continue Reading
Bans on Internal Combustion Engines May Backfire
A number of countries have stated their intention to ban the internal combustion engine (ICE) and shift to all electric vehicles in the next couple of decades. These announcements are Continue Reading
Don’t Be Caught Unprepared for the EV Tsunami
The long years of waiting for electric vehicles (EVs) to enter the mainstream are over. Largely thanks to sharply falling prices, EV sales in the U.S. have been growing at Continue Reading
Study: 100% renewable electricity worldwide is feasible, and cheaper than business-as-usual
Currently, the global electricity sector amount to 11 Gt of CO2 equivalent. According to a new study from German non-profit Energy Watch Group and the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Continue Reading
UPS, NYSERDA project to convert UPS diesel delivery trucks to electric
UPS and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that new technology will be developed to convert UPS package delivery vehicles from diesel to electric. UPS Continue Reading
OPEC says electric vehicles could lead oil demand to plateau in 2030s
A rapid adoption of electric vehicles could cause world oil demand to reach a plateau in the second half of the 2030s, OPEC said in a report, a potential setback Continue Reading
Google owner tests first driverless car on city streets
The first truly autonomous cars — vehicles that cruise the public streets with no one sitting behind the wheel to take over in case of emergency — have finally arrived. Continue Reading
Bob Lutz: Kiss the good times goodbye
It saddens me to say it, but we are approaching the end of the automotive era. The auto industry is on an accelerating change curve. For hundreds of years, the Continue Reading
Velodyne launches VLS-128, the world’s highest resolution LiDAR for autonomous vehicles; successor to the HDL-64
Velodyne Labs announced that it has produced a LiDAR with the world’s best resolution, longest range, and widest field of view, the result of which will boost the autonomous vehicle Continue Reading
Gas Stations Get Ready for the Electric Future
Circle K owner test is response to electric-car boom in Norway Super-charger, burritos and home stations among pilot projects A pit stop on a Norwegian highway in the middle of Continue Reading
Texas applauds free-market move on electric vehicles
A Texas energy regulator said a proposal to eliminate federal tax breaks for electric vehicles keeps the government from falsely distorting the energy market. At least six sections of the Continue Reading
Utility Touts Electrification to Meet California Climate Goals
Southern California Edison, an operating unit of Edison International , plans Tuesday to release its vision for how the state can comply with a new law that requires greenhouse gas Continue Reading
California mulls ban on new cars with engines, joining China in climate action
National Plug-In Day 2012: San Francisco, with 60 Nissan Leafs in front of the Golden Gate Bridge With China mulling an eventual ban on sales of cars with gasoline or Continue Reading
Automakers Build War Chests to Finance a Self-Driving Future
Detroit’s Big Three automakers are showing a new sense of bottom-line discipline as they angle for any advantage in the race with Silicon Valley, and one another, to develop the Continue Reading
The Impact Of EVs On Commodities In One Chart
It’s obviously a thought experiment, since right now EVs have close to just 1 percent market share worldwide. We’re still years away from EVs even hitting double-digit demand on a Continue Reading
Wall Street loves electric cars, America loves trucks
Wall Street may love the shares of Silicon Valley electric carmaker Tesla Inc, but Americans love big, fuel-thirsty trucks like Ford Motor Co’s bestselling F-Series pickups and are paying ever Continue Reading
Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market
Enel S.p.A., through its US subsidiary EnerNOC, has acquired California-based eMotorWerks, a North American supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, called JuiceBox, and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Continue Reading
Aramco: Mass EV Adoption Still Decades Away
Though electric vehicles are gaining popularity worldwide, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser believes that the new cars will not compose a significant portion of on-road vehicles for decades, according to Continue Reading
Xiamen University team assesses reasons for purchasing EVs in first-tier cities in China; smog a major factor
A team of researchers at Xiamen University in China has examined the factors influencing electric vehicle uptake in major Chinese cities. Boqiang Lin and Wei Wu have put forward an Continue Reading
New Tech Pushes The EV Revolution Into Overdrive
Connie Francis sang about “Where the Boys Are” in 1961. Well, the bright boys and girls are flooding into transportation. It is the place of cutting-edge invention: not cell phones, Continue Reading
Mitsubishi Motors, NewMotion, Nuvve in vehicle-to-grid pilot in Netherlands with Outlander PHEV
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has launched a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) pilot, with the first charge point already being utilized with Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV’s in-vehicle storage batteries. Using V2G-technology, peak demand on Continue Reading
Cars Are The Future Of Energy Storage
A number of years ago, one of the smartest entrepreneurs in the electric industry (as evidenced by the timing of his sale of generating assets to a big energy producer) Continue Reading
IEA: An electrified world would cost $31B per year to achieve
The investments necessary to provide electricity for the entire world population is less than 2 percent of total energy investments, the IEA said Thursday. A report from the International Energy Continue Reading
Why Petrol Powered Cars Aren’t Going Anywhere
Your intuition may be taxed when I say this, but more electric vehicle sales does not quickly equate to declining piston-fired cars on the world’s roadways. Banning All Engines In Continue Reading
Volkswagen developing electric racer for Pikes Peak 2018
After an absence from the event of more than 30 years, Volkswagen is developing an all-electric race car for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado on 24 June Continue Reading
Are Combustion Engines Reaching Peak Demand?
And then imagine that we wake up in 2040 and learn that every country actually kept to their promise. In 23 years all new vehicle sales—everywhere—would be electrically-powered. I call Continue Reading
The Embarrassing Problem Holding Back Tesla’s Model 3 Production
A little over a week ago, we noted the damning – if unsurprising – report from the Wall Street Journal revealing that Tesla’s massive production miss on the Model 3, Continue Reading
Can India Overtake China In The EV Revolution?
India faces a wide chasm between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign to make sure all new vehicles sold in India are electric by 2030 and actual sales numbers. While India Continue Reading
Volvo Cars, Geely investing US$756M to develop Polestar electrified vehicles;
Volvo Cars and its owner, China-based Geely Holding, will jointly invest RMB 5 billion (US756 million) to support the initial phase of Polestar’s product, brand and industrial development. Polestar, the Continue Reading
Penn State team devises new control strategy to enhance EV battery performance when driving in cold temperatures
Main Researchers at Penn State, with a colleague from EC Power, have devised a new control strategy that can rapidly restore EV battery power and permit full regeneration while driving Continue Reading
General Motors to test self-driving cars in New York City
General Motors plans to become the first company to test self-driving cars in New York City, in some of the world’s worst traffic, as traditional automakers battle technology titans to Continue Reading
GM Plans to Make Systems for Autonomous Cars
Daniel Ammann, president of GM, speaks during the Wall Street Journal D.Live global technology conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Tuesday. “The approach that we are taking to that is Continue Reading
VW Fails To Secure Critical Commodity For EVs
The German carmaker last month put out a tender seeking a five-year supply of the strategic metal at a fixed price. But people familiar with the deal said the offer Continue Reading
ABB, Fastned support Autocharge automatic authorization for charging sessions
The standards-based Autocharge feature enables automatic authorization for EV charging sessions, offering drivers an easy ‘plug in and walk away’ user experience. Autocharge enables a charge session to be automatically Continue Reading
Chinese EV Boom Could Crash Oil Prices
EVs are gaining traction, and although they still only make up a small fraction of the auto market, more and more analysts are starting to buy into the notion that Continue Reading
Mass EV Adoption Could Lead To $10 Oil
The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) will lead to global peak oil demand as soon as in 2023-2025, which will result in oil prices crashing to $10, Chris Watling, CEO Continue Reading
Europe plans “EU Battery Alliance” to establish full large-scale battery development and production; strategic plan next year
The European Union is beginning efforts to establish a full value chain of advanced batteries in Europe, with large-scale Li-ion battery cell production, and the circular economy, at the core. Continue Reading
Electric cars: China’s highly charged power play
China has numerous reasons for hating the combustion engine, and a huge incentive to hasten its demise. They are dirty, accounting for what the government says is about 30 percent Continue Reading
Who’s Winning The Electric Vehicle Race?
Automakers and suppliers of automotive technology are making big moves toward transforming the very nature of vehicles and the amount of fuel they consume. Electric vehicles and self-driving cars are Continue Reading