It’s one of the electric cars I still haven’t driven and would love to give a spin. The Renault Zoe is dominating electric car sales in its home country of France this year, with its Japanese […]
The German electric car market is a fun one. Of course, German automakers have an advantage, but they have so many models on the market that there’s quite a lot of shifting around from month to month. […]
Siblings Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and Mitsubishi Corporation have teamed up with a number of big corporate players to run a demonstration project using old electric car batteries for stationary electricity storage in Europe. The full list of […]
All 12 IKEA stores in Canada will soon have Sun Country Highway electric vehicle (EV) chargers in their parking lots, providing shoppers (and others) with free charging. Each of the 12 locations will install two 60-amp […]
Thanks to Karel Beckman of EnergyPost.eu and the enthusiastic crew over at Fastned, I recently got to visit the Fastned headquarters in Amsterdam and interview cofounder Bart Lubbers, as well as other key staff. Don’t know […]
Bostonians can now charge their electric cars for free… if they drive a Nissan LEAF, that is. Nissan has rolled out its “No Charge to Charge” promotion in Beantown, which lets Nissan LEAF owners charge for free […]
ChargePoint is a definite leader in the EV charging world. Now, public and workplace EV charging leader is invading your home — or trying to, at least. ChargePoint is offering what a third party it deems […]
Proterra and BYD are clear leaders in the realm of electric buses. Proterra, based in California, has made another stop along that route, with $55 million raised through a strategic financing investment round. “This signals a […]
I’ve seen some fuss on a “top” car website (Edmunds.com — not too surprisingly) about the potential for getting your hand trapped in a Tesla Model S door handle. Tesla’s door handles, of course, close on […]
Wow, if you thought he Gigafactory was insane already, try this news on for size: according to a Story County official, Dean Haymore, Tesla is planning 7 “blocks” (with one block being the under-construction Gigafactory). It has bought […]
Here’s a quick, fun video from Tesla Motors on Tesla Model S drivers passing 1 billion miles. The location seems to be Australia, Tesla’s newest market. Enjoy! 1 billion miles. Let that sink in.
As you may know by now, I went on a little cleantech tour of the Netherlands last month. Spending a few days in Amsterdam, Holland, I got to see dozens of plug-in cars parked and driving […]
The Volkswagen Golf GTE (a sporty plug-in hybrid electric car) is one of the more popular cars on the European electric car market these days. In fact, it was the top-selling electric car in the Netherlands in […]
JuiceBox Green 40 is the first electric vehicle charging solution (or EVSE) that helps an EV driver to spite greenhouse gas emissions by charging when electricity is greenest. Basically, software developed by a new nonprofit organization […]
Electric vehicles are the future. Many large auto manufacturers either don’t seem to get it or are simply trying to postpone the future for as long as possible while they make money on their ICE vehicles. […]
