Renault Zoe EV Gets iPad App
The Renault Zoe EV — a French electric car that is currently sold in France, the UK, Germany, Italy, and Spain — has just gotten an iPad app that is supposed to be pretty innovative. The […]
Honda Fit EV & Fiat 500e Are 100% Compliance Cars
Something that I think not many people are aware of is that some green cars are only produced because of California’s strict laws aimed at greening the automobile industry. Unfortunately, while some automakers get the underlying […]
Tesla Roadster Batteries Retain 80–85% Of Original Charge After 100,000 Miles
This isn’t terribly surprising to me, as electric vehicle battery packs are often provided with 8-year warranties, and there is a rule of thumb that the lifespan of equipment normally exceeds its warranty. (Otherwise, the manufacturer […]
100% EV Sales Beating PHEV Sales In US
Green Car Reports recently stumbled across an interesting fact — 100% electric vehicles (led by the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S) have actually outsold plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the first half of 2013 […]
Wireless EV Charging In Road Of The Future (Infographic)
Someone recently shared a “road of the future” infographic with me. I was happy to see that roads that charge your electric vehicle wirelessly were included. There’s a lot of other fun stuff in there that […]
Solar-Powered EV That Seats 4 (Stella)
This article is being reposted from Solar Love: If you’re unfamiliar with the World Solar Challenge, it’s an event where universities and research institutes create solar cars and race them 3000 kilometers (1864 miles) across the […]
Spying On Lithium Ions
Lithium-ion batteries very clearly dominate the current electric vehicle (EV) battery scene. Sill, they are a fairly young technology. There’s a lot still to learn and a lot of improvements could be made… and surely will. […]
EV Lithium-Ion Battery List Topped By LG Chem, Johnson Controls, & AESC
Lithium-ion batteries are the clear EV battery technology winner today, as they are being used in the vast majority of electric vehicles on the market today. The future may bring a shift to lithium-air batteries or […]
Electric Vehicles Sales Update (June 2013 Sales)
Ready for our monthly US electric vehicle sales (including hybrid sales) update? How could you not be? Below is the full table, including comparisons between June 2013 sales and June 2012 sales as well as between […]
Next-Gen Lithium-Ion Batteries From Bosch, Mitsubishi, & GS Yuasa
Robert Bosch GmbH and two Japanese companies — GS Yuasa International Ltd. and Mitsubishi Corporation — recently announced that they were going to triple team lithium-ion battery technology. Well, yeah, they didn’t use the term “triple […]
Volvo Testing In-Road Wireless EV Charging
Remember when roads weren’t everywhere? Maybe not. However, they had to be built at some point. That was expensive. However, the current gasoline-powered road transportation system is old, unreliable, and inefficient because gasoline engines are unreliable […]
Electric Car Cost vs Gas (Calculators)
Electric car cost vs gas car cost is a perennial issue of discussion. Of course, the result keeps changing, and the options for comparison keep growing (as more and more electric cars are available for sale […]
Ford Cuts CO2 Emissions 37% Per Vehicle (Since 2000)
Just two days ago I was praising Ford for its plugin electric vehicle (PEV) options and its PEV sales. Well, those clean vehicles aren’t the only things that are cleaner around Ford headquarters and factories these […]
Long-Range EV From GM & Envia (Rumors)
We’ve got some potentially big news out of Rumor Land. According to the rumor, GM could be working on a long-range electric vehicle that would actually have twice the energy density of the Tesla Model S. […]
Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Sales Summary (May 2013)
Note: these sales stats are for the US only. First of all, apologies for the long delay on this one! Unfortunately, I was unable to work for about a week (very not fun stuff), and this […]