Anton Wahlman, Seeing Alpha March 16, 2017 VW’s electrification plans consist of three main steps: (1) Current and refreshed cars, (2) two flagships from Audi/Porsche, and (3) an all-new platform. The most interesting of these is naturally the third and final step: The all-new 100% electric platform. Pilot production of this “MEB” platform starts around mid-2019 and customer volume production […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bonnie Christian, February 20, 2017, wired.co.uk Remember Solar Impulse 2, the solar-powered plane that circumnavigated the world in July 2016? This could be the ocean-going equivalent. In a bid to prove the effectiveness of hydrogen as a renewable fuel, Victorien Erussard and Jérôme Delafosse will sail around the world in a boat powered by the gas – made from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jordan Kahn, electrek.co, January 21, 2017 In this week’s top stories: Tesla 2nd-gen Autopilot could reduce crash rate by 90%, Model S 100D update, hints at upcoming EVs from Hyundai, Audi, and VW, and much more. We kick things off this week with the release of the new Model S 100D with 335 miles of range, making it the longest […]