Originally published on CleanTechnica. An important new industry guideline for wireless power transfer technology and infrastructure — “SAE TIR J2954 Wireless Power Transfer for Light-Duty Plug-In/ Electric Vehicles and Alignment Methodology” — was recently approved for […]
Volvo Cars recently unveiled two new 40 Series concept cars based around the company’s new Compact Modular Architecture platform — giving us our first semi-real look at where the company is headed in the coming years […]
Yes, Ford Energi in the title probably comes as a little bit of a surprise, but if you add Ford’s two Energi models together, they almost tie the Chevy Volt for #2 in US electric car sales […]
Volvo Cars will be working towards the goal of selling up to 1 million “electrified” cars by the year 2025, according to a new press release from the Swedish company. “Electrified” cars in this case apparently […]
Electric car sales in the US were a mixed bag again in March. Several plug-in hybrid models, led by the Chevy Volt, had a strong month and first quarter, but several fully electric models saw lower sales […]
The top position for electric vehicle sales in Germany for the month of February 2016 was, surprisingly, held by the Audi A3 e-tron, with 210 units sold during the month in the market. This was followed […]
A number of prominent bus manufacturers in Europe — Volvo, Solaris, Irizar, and VDL — have agreed to work towards the achievement of interoperability of their electric buses with a common charging infrastructure, according to a […]
The Senior Vice President for Research & Development at Volvo Cars, Dr Peter Mertens, has called for the automotive industry to create a global standard for electric vehicle charging infrastructure — in order to pave the […]
We’ve covered POD Point a handful of times, but I got to interview CEO and Founder Erik Fairbairn a few months ago and haven’t yet gotten around to writing up a story on that. Well, now’s the […]
US electric car sales (pure electrics and plug-in hybrids) rose 4.4% in February 2016 vs February 2015, but that slight change masks large variations by type of EV. 100% electric cars dove 14% (4479 sales in Feb 2016 vs […]
The city of Namur, Belgium, recently placed an order for 11 hybrid electric buses and 2 electric bus chargers with Volvo — marking the largest order to date for the company. The 2 automated electric bus […]
The Volvo V90 wagon plug-in hybrid — a new sibling to the S90 sedan and the XC90 SUV — was recently unveiled in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. The reason that the 3 vehicles mentioned above […]
Based on the latest electric car sales numbers from auto manufacturers, as well as estimates for Tesla and Fiat electric car sales, plug-in electric car sales in the US seem to have increased 15% in January […]
The AeroVironment TurboCord Dual plug-in EV charger is one of the finalists for the 2016 Automotive News PACE Awards, according to a new press release. The selection of the TurboCord Dual plug-in EV charger as a […]
2016 looks like it will be an interesting year for electric car sales. We have some significantly upgraded versions of the Nissan LEAF and Chevy Volt, as well as several new entrants to the market — such as […]
