On October 10, Tesla CTO & co-founder JB Straubel gave a presentation at the Southern California Energy Summit. Unfortunately, I wasn’t at that one, but JB’s presentation was posted online, so I decided to pull out […]
Below is an interesting video on the life and death of lithium-ion batteries (aka Li-ion batteries), as well as some tips on how to make Li-ion batteries live longer. It is definitely for those interested in the […]
While Nissan will — for the time being — continue to design and manufacture the batteries that it uses in its electric vehicles, it is open to the option of that changing in the future, according […]
With electric cars becoming more and more common, and more and more electric car drivers using these vehicles to travel through the great outdoors, the interface between said drivers and RV campgrounds is becoming much more common. […]
Tesla Motors just last night announced new Tesla stores in Berlin and Hamburg. I happened to be in Berlin and Hamburg… about 2 weeks too early. But I did get some pics of the inside of the Berlin […]
Kia recently jumpstarted enthusiasm about the 2015 Kia Soul EV with a new commercial featuring horny furry lab hamsters. Now it has gone a bit further (and in a more practical direction) with the unveiling of […]
Even Elon Musk on a couple of occasions has basically said that Tesla (TSLA) stock is too high. One time was about a year ago when it was much lower than it is today. As he […]
LumiLor Lit Car from Darkside Scientific on Vimeo. Lumilor has gone and advertised its electroluminescent coating system with the best car on the planet — the Tesla Model S. Not sure what else to say about […]
The Nissan LEAF took the show in August, with a record-breaking sales month. However, that was almost expected based on its performance in previous months. I think the biggest positive surprise this month was the big […]
The Nissan LEAF has been crushing it this year in sales. It is far-and-away the leader in electric car sales for the year to date, sitting at 16,853 compared to the Chevy Volt’s 11,598 and the […]
One of our readers recently passed along a photograph of a 1914 LIFE magazine ad about “the economical electric.” Interestingly, it talks about electricity “constantly decreasing in cost,” which clearly didn’t hold steady for too long. However, electricity […]
Someone recently passed along to me a fun Chevy Volt commercial I don’t think I had ever seen. It’s actually quite old, but worth a share, and if I hadn’t seen it before, I imagine plenty […]
It’s hard to get European-wide numbers for electric car sales. In fact, it’s hard to get numbers for almost any country in Europe. A Norwegian electric vehicle association was publishing Norway’s numbers regularly for awhile, as was a […]
The Tesla Gigafactory is one of the hottest cleantech stories of 2014, if not the hottest. Someone recently passed along a cool Tesla Gigafactory infographic that includes quite a bit of interesting info about the lithium-ion […]
Last week, Tesla began deliveries of right-hand-drive Tesla Model S’s in Asia, Hong Kong to be specific. Movie stars*, rich tech lovers, and Tesla’s Vice President of World Wide Sales and Service, Jerome Guillen, were present. Aside […]
