Fred Lambert, January 7, 2017, Electrek.co Nissan’s keynote at CES in Las Vegas was kind of disappointing. The company was rumored to unveil its first long-range all-electric vehicle to compete against GM’s Chevy Bolt EV and Tesla’s Model 3. Instead, the company only confirmed that the vehicle is coming “in the near future”. It looks we will have to wait…
Jameson Dow, January 3, 2017, Electrek.co Faraday Future has just finished revealing their first car, the “FF 91”, in a livestreamed demonstration from CES 2017, and boy was the demonstration a doozy. The FF 91’s specs are incredibly impressive. With a 130kWh battery, it will have 1050 horsepower, which Faraday Future claims is the most of any electric car (but actually falls…
After years of study, the United States will now require all new electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles to emit an audible sound when travelling under 30 km/h or in reverse as of September 2019. No word yet on whether Canada will enact a similar requirement. However, currently many of electric and plug-in hybrid models already have sounds built in….
30 Reasons Your Next Car Should be Electric There’s an unstoppable force underway in the transportation market, and I’m not talking about mass adoption of Segways (sorry, Bill Gates). No, it’s about the technology that has come to dominate CleanTechnica coverage — electric transport. Electric cars, electric buses, and electric trucks are simply better than their gasoline predecessors. They offer a more…
December 3, 2016 Last Saturday, November 26, 2016, thousands of Victorian’s shrugged at the rain and came out to watch Santa’s Light Parade. The Victoria EV Club participated with a variety of all-electric vehicles shown below: Nissan LEAF, Zero S electric motorcycle, Ford Focus electric, Tesla Model X, Smart electric, Tesla Model S, and a Kia Soul. A huge thank…
Elon Musk: Tesla Model 3 Will Get Free Long Distance Charging, But Not Free Local 10 hours ago by Eric Loveday 85Comments insideevs Tesla Model 3 Tesla Supercharger Even when the Tesla Model 3 is not supposed to be the topic of conversation, it still is the topic conversation. Take, for example, the Tesla/SolarCity merger announced yesterday. In a special…
Jameson Dow, Electrek.co, Nov 3, 2016 On a recent Saturday afternoon, Kim Reynolds from Motor Trend brought a Chevy Bolt to a Tesla meetup in Orange County, California, to see what a group of local Tesla owners thought about Chevy’s new entry into the market. “How many of you have Model 3 reservations?” I ask. Eleven out of 19 hands rise. “Now,…
Quebec Bill Would Require 3.5 Percent of New Cars be Zero Emission The Act to increase the number of zero-emission motor vehicles in Québec in order to reduce greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions was adopted on October 26, 2016. As a result, like 10 U.S. states, including California and several northeastern states, Québec has invested itself with the power to…
Fred Lambert, Electrek.co, October 7, 2016 After coming to the realization that they would need a mandate for all cars to be zero-emission by 2030 if they want to comply with the goals set by the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions, Germany’s upper house of parliament gained approval for pushing a Europe-wide mandate to stop gas-powered car sales by…
Fred Lambert, Electrek.co, October 11, 2016 Last month, we shared reports that Lit Motors, a small startup best known for developing self-balancing two-wheel vehicles, became an acquisition target for several major companies, including BMW. In an interesting development, BMW unveiled today its own self-balancing electric motorcycle concept. BMW’s concept is very much a motorcycle and not an enclosed two-wheel vehicle…
