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Electric vehicle start-ups face their toughest challenge: making cars
Just outside the English market town of Bicester, 15 miles from Oxford, lies the shell of a factory that sits at the forefront of the electric vehicle revolution in the UK. Under a cavernous warehouse...
Sulfur Battery Technology Could Make Electric Cars Go Three Times Further By 2024
Limited range is one of the most frequent criticisms of EVs. Although a 300-mile rating is becoming increasingly common for current electric cars, some fossil fuel models can go twice as far on a tank...
The Future Of Electric Trucks Will Begin With Natural Gas, Hyliion Says
In Hyliion, Thomas Healy founded a company that wants to use compressed natural gas to power an … [+] electric truck. Hyliion Nikola is working on hydrogen, and Tesla and Rivian on all-electric ...
3 ‘Strong Buy’ Electric Vehicle Stocks With Triple-Digit Upside Potential
Electric vehicles (EVs) are clearly the next big thing in the automotive industry, and they are supported by both social and political pressures toward ‘green’ technologies. For drivers, they offer a ...
High Gas Prices Drive High Demand For Electric Vehicles, TrueCar Says
The Ford F-150 Lightning battery powered electric pickup is built at Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle … [+] Center in Dearborn, Mich. PHOTO: Ford High gas prices tied to Russia’s invasion of ...
It’s three times cheaper to fuel an electric car than a gas car — Quartz
US gas prices are at their highest levels ever. During the week of March 14, national averages peaked at $4.32 per gallon, double the average in 2020, thanks to an unexpected surge in consumer demand ...
FedEx tests electric carts for last-mile delivery in U.S. and Canadian cities
FedEx EP1 cart by Brightdrop Source: Brightdrop FedEx plans to test electric carts to make deliveries on its signature Express routes in 10 U.S. and Canadian cities throughout 2022. The company hopes ...
Suzuki To Make Inroads Into India’s Electric Vehicle Market
Maruti Suzuki in India. Pradeep Gaur/Mint via Getty Images Japanese auto maker Suzuki Motor plans to invest $1.23 billion in India for electric vehicles and their batteries in a bid to catch up with c...
Nikola begins production of battery electric Tre semitruck
Nikola Motor’s Tre semi-truck. Nikola Motor Company Electric heavy-truck startup Nikola announced on Wednesday that it has begun production of the battery-powered version of its electric Tre sem...
BMW Profits Look Strong Despite Forecast Cut, While Electric Plans Still Questioned
Oliver Zipse, CEO of BMW, stands in front of an i4 electric car (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via … [+] Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images BMW profit outlook is still strong despite cutting its t...
Blockchain Will Be The ‘Glue’ Connecting The Future Electric Grid
In the near future, the electric-power grid will likely rely on blockchain to manage its complex … [+] network of transactions. getty Once upon a time, a single electric utility would send elect...
Ford F-150 Lightning’s range beats Rivian electric pickups, lags GMC
2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Ford DETROIT – Ford Motor’s 2022 F-150 Lightning pickup will have an electric range of up to 320 miles, according to final Environmental Protection Agency estimates rel...
Textron’s Acquisition Of Pipistrel Lifts Electric Aviation Off The Tarmac
Investors deployed an estimated $7 billion of capital into the advanced aerial mobility (AAM) sector, riding a wave of excitement about small battery-electric aircraft, including electric flying cars,...
Why electric bills keep rising
Along with the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. customers are facing some of the largest electric bills in years as a result of surging oil and gas prices, seasonal pressure, and supply chain issues. ...
Ambitious Electric Car Sales Targets May Fall Short And Reprieve ICE Power; Report
Portrait of impatient young woman charging her electric car getty Automakers have over-estimated the market for electric vehicles and will waste millions as they are eventually forced to reinstate pla...
Africa’s Favorite Orange Electric Motorcycle
As sub-Saharan Africa develops, it is becoming increasingly dependent on transportation services – worker and leisure commutes, freight and industrial material transportation, and other movement activ...
China’s New Wave of Electric Car Battery Giants Are Going Public
(Bloomberg) — It’s easy to think, with the blizzard of announcements around new EV battery capacity being added in Europe and the U.S., and a blockbuster listing for South Korea’s LG Energy Solu...
The Real Electric Vehicle Sales Numbers—and The Difficult Questions They Raise
People are buying EVs in record numbers. What does this mean for car infrastructure? Accelerating EV. Photo by Alessio Lin Buckle up, the transition to electric cars is accelerating at a pace that was...
Electric Last Mile shares plummet to $1 after company confirms SEC probe
The ELMS Urban Delivery, anticipated to launch later this year, is expected to be the first Class 1 commercial electric vehicle available in the U.S. market and will be produced at the Company’s...
Connected Cars Are Just As Revolutionary As Electric Vehicles
With all the media attention for the burgeoning EV market, it’s easy to miss that there is another revolution taking place at the same time. The two overlap and reinforce each other, but they are also...
Ford and PG&E partner on electric F-150 powering homes, grid
2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Ford Ford Motor will collaborate with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in California to evaluate the bidirectional charging capabilities of the electric F-150 Lightning to power ...
Gas prices are spiking — don’t expect sales of electric vehicles to follow
High gas prices are displayed at a Shell station on March 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Consumers hoping to switch to an all-electric or more fuel-e...
Volkswagen unveils new electric ID. Buzz microbus
Volkswagen is resurrecting its iconic microbus — the quintessential van associated with traveling Deadheads and the 1960s counterculture — as an all-electric van called the ID. Buzz. The German automa...
General Electric could be under pressure longer. Should you hold?
General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced towards the end of February that it faced significant challenges from the high-interest rates. The company was also not immune to global supply chain chall...
Korean Auto Giant Hyundai Unveils $16 Billion Plan To Accelerate Electric Vehicle Push
Hyundai Motor’s Euisun Chung. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor plans to invest about $16 billion and roughly double its market share in the global electri...
Volvo Expected To Add Five Electric Models To Boost Lone XC40
Volvo XC40 Recharge electric SUV getty Volvo Car’s ambition to go all-electric by 2030 was looking a bit threadbare with only one model available but plans to introduce 5 new battery-electric vehicles...
Honda and Sony come together to both develop and sell electric vehicles
Honda Motors Co. (OTCMKTS: HNDAF) and Sony Group Co. (OTCMKTS: SNEJF) announced they’re teaming up to develop electric vehicles. This collaboration will bring together two huge Japanese business outfi...
Huawei’s competitor to Tesla electric cars to begin deliveries in China
Consumers check out Huawei’s first HarmonyOS car, the Aito M5, at a store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on Jan. 3, 2022. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — The firs...