The potential of electric cars seems to be higher now than ever before. Traditional automakers including General Motors, Volkswagen, Daimler AG, and others are all investing heavily in electric vehicles. And Tesla, of course, has built its entire business off of battery powered cars. But electric automobiles are nothing new. They actually have a rich
Hedge fund manager and Kynikos Associates President, Jim Chanos was interviewed on CNBC on Thursday, and had a couple interesting (and uncharacteristic) observations worth noting. The first being bullish on solar, but still maintaining a short position in Solar City (of whom Chanos says is not a tech company, but a finance company); despite the
Ford will launch a Focus EV during 2016 – and add another 13 such cars within the next five years The only place to find an electric focus used to be your camera. But soon, Ford dealers will have them too. During the next 12 months, the new Ford Focus Electric will go on sale.
A global electric vehicle outlook report published in 2013 suggested that the goal of 15 countries that are part of the Electric Vehicles Initiative is to have 20 million electric vehicles on the road by 2020. The report states that, as countries seek to address future energy requirements, achieving sustainable transport has emerged as an
Back in September, I got on Nissan’s mailing list to be the “first to know” when the 2016 LEAF was released. I also asked a local Nissan dealer to contact me when it was available. Neither one contacted me. One would think that the biggest update to the LEAF in 5 years would warrant a
Fortune interviewed Dustin Grace, who for nine years was working on drivetrains at Tesla Motors, and earlier this year switched to electric bus maker Proterra by becoming their director of battery engineering. Grace shared his opinion about the advantages of electric motors over internal combustion engines. We listed some of the main topics, but full
More than 100,000 motorists to benefit from £400 million fund focused on greenest vehicles. The government has today (17 December 2015) announced a long-term extension to the plug-in car grant, backed by a £400 million package to treble the number of ultra low emission vehicles on Britain’s roads. The grant will continue well beyond the
Chargemaster is to install EV charging points at AccorHotels Ibis and Novotel hotels across the UK. The first phase, in 2016, will see 60 hotels receive EV charging points as part of Chargemaster’s Polar network. The charging points will be free to use for Ibis and Novotel visitors to charge their electric and plug-in hybrid
The International ZEV Alliance, an international group geared to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by spurring more electric vehicle sales, has used the United Nations’ COP21 climate-change conference in Paris to set a rather lofty goal. The group wants to have all new cars sold within their jurisdictions to be emissions-free by 2050, according to Green Car
Renault ZOE R240, VAB Family Car of the Year 2016
In the 29th Family Car of the Year Awards run by the Belgian automobile association VAB, journalist and family juries voted Renault ZOE R240 top in the electric vehicles category. For the 2016 edition of its Family Car of the Year Awards, the Belgian automobile association VAB specified a 30-kilometre increase in the minimum “electric
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