Lucid Motors announces aggressive $60,000 base price for its luxury all-electric sedan

Fred Lambert, Electrek.co March 15, 2017   When Lucid Motors announced its all-electric luxury sedan called ‘Air’, it was presented as a serious competitor to Tesla’s Model S, but we expected to be priced higher than Tesla’s flagship vehicle. It starts at $68,000 for a Model S 60 with 218 miles of EPA-rated range. The startup is announcing today a more aggressive pricing…

Is it time to buy an electric vehicle?

  With more speeds and more options, it’s getting easier to own an EV in B.C. by Kirsten Rodenhizer Dustin and Amanda Batchelor bought their first electric car, a Nissan Leaf, in early 2013. At the time, the model was one of only a couple of electric vehicles (EVs) on the market. An IT professional and car aficionado, Dustin had…

Available EVs in Canada

February 26, 2017 from KootenayEVFamily.ca Editor’s note: Many thanks to KootenayEVFamily.ca for compiling this accurate and extensive list of Canadian EVs and allowing us to share it with our membership. This page contains a list of available plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for Canada, and a preview for any that have been confirmed as coming…

VW launches subsidiary to manage push for electric cars

  Keith Laing, Detroit News Washington Bureau 3:13 p.m. ET Feb. 7, 2017 Washington — Volkswagen AG has launched a new subsidiary to manage the $2 billion it’s required to spend to boost the use of zero-emission and electric vehicles. The requirement is part of the German automaker’s $14.7 billion settlement with U.S. regulators for rigging hundreds of thousands of…

Solar power and electric cars could halt fossil fuels by 2020

By Karen Graham     6 hours ago in Environment Digital Journal Fossil fuels will soon be a thing of the past as renewable energy sources are being embraced globally and the technologies behind electric cars, solar and wind power make them less costly to consumers. The coal and oil industries are seriously underestimating the impact the renewable energy industry…

Electric vehicle battery cost dropped 80% in 6 years down to $227/kWh – Tesla claims to be below $190/kWh

Fred Lambert, January 30, 2017 Profitable production of electric vehicles is highly important. Our capitalist society revolves around profitability and therefore, if electric vehicles are to prevail over gas-powered cars, they need to be profitable to manufacture in mass. A new study published this month by McKinsey & Company and embedded below looks into how automakers can move past producing EVs…

Shell says it will start installing electric vehicle chargers at its gas stations this year

Fred Lambert, Electrek.co, February 1, 2017 In a future where the world’s car fleet is rapidly transitioning to electric vehicles, gas stations will be forcefully downgraded to simple convenience stores and consequently, they will lose a significant revenue stream brought in by people stopping for gas but buying something at the convenience store. Some oil companies have accepted that the…

Statistics: Electric Car Sales in Canada, Dec 2016

  Editors Note: This summary chart has been modified to show which vehicles are 100% Battery Electric (green) and the plug-in hybrids (grey). Matthew Klippenstein, Jan 12, 2017,  Green Car Reports While still just shy of the 30,000 vehicle milestone, cumulative Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales likely finished 2016 high enough to scale Mount Everest (elevation in feet: 29,029). While…