The most recent Delsbo Electric contest for highly efficient battery-electric railcar vehicles was won by a team from Sweden’s Dalarna University, according to recent reports. As the name suggests, the contest is held near the Swedish […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica.com It is not always that one finds positive movement with large utilities in these game-changing days of renewable energy and EVs. A recent positive, announced in early July 2016, was Duke Energy’s $1.5 […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica.com Even as a satisfied Nissan Leaf driver, I pay attention to every note of news from Tesla Motors and thoroughly enjoy Elon Musk. Most EV enthusiasts respect Tesla. Sometimes in awe, we follow […]
BMW has continued its “semi-leadership” in electric vehicles this week. Despite a recent announcement that the company is shifting the BMW i program’s focus away from electric cars and into autonomous driving, it seems that it […]
The upper portion of the enormous Tesla Model X windshield seems to get a noticeably red-tint to it when exposed to rain, going by a recent discussion on the Tesla Motors Club forum. What’s the cause? […]
One of the more disheartening electric vehicle stories of the year was BMW pulling back on its plans to be an EV leader, rather than announcing a knockout, Tesla-Model-3-competing BMW i5 or other fully electric car. It […]
This article is also being published on EV Obsession and EV Sales. The Chinese market had more than 34,000 new EVs zooming the streets last month, a 154% increase over the same month last year, in-line with […]
Who is Edna, and why is she flaunting her electric bits in front of a Tesla and a Ferrari? To be fair, she’s not exactly showing off all of her bits, as they’re hidden inside the […]
I just realized while writing “Auto Industry: ‘We Can’t Change, Please Let Us Keep Abusing You‘” that I never got to publishing a 2016 edition of “Most Fuel Efficient Cars In The USA,” to follow the […]
The carsharing firm DriveNow — a joint-venture between BMW Group and SIXT — has launched its popular service in the Belgian capital Brussels, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica and EVObsession. The DriveNow fleet being […]
The electric vehicle charging solutions firm POD Point has identified itself as one of the suppliers of free home charging solutions to Nissan LEAF buyers in the UK making the purchase with finance, according to an email […]
Tesla reps have publicly stated that the company expects fully autonomous driving to be only ~2 years off, but how close the company actually is to achieving this goal/expectation is something of an unknown. With that thought […]
The auto industry is home to a great many well-funded and entrenched interests. Which has resulted in some interesting coverage of Tesla and some of its controversial offerings and technologies (like Autopilot). All of that said, […]
There’s no doubt about it — 400,000 reservations for a single model is a big deal. For several months (since last year, even), we’ve discussed how this could be (likely is) decreasing Nissan LEAF, BMW i3, […]
US electric car sales rose slightly (2.1%) in June 2016 compared to June 2015, but were up 8.5% for the year through June. That said, fully electric cars were down 35% in June, and 11% for the […]
