Articles tagged "Misc"

If you think this is just another Chinese company, here today gone tomorrow - don’t be so sure. Jidu is a joint venture between two Chinese giants - Baidu and Geely. The cars are manufactured at one of Geely’s factories in Zhejiang and Robo 1 is the...

Lunchtime is approaching quickly and courtesy of Ken Block we now know how to spend it. The undisputed master of inner-city shenanigans, the king of tire smoke and overall one of the most skilled drivers ever, brought his entourage to Las Vegas this...

President Macron unveiled more targeted subsidies for electric cars. The revised scheme will focus on low-income families and offer them higher incentives to help with transition to electrified transport. Until now, France had a subsidy of €6,000...

StoreDot is advancing its extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology at a speed of light. The company has announced it concluded testing on the production-ready EV battery pack with its proprietary cell technology. During the test, the XFC EV...

Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) from Canada will unveil an electric car on October 19. The unusual story here is the fact that APMA is not a car manufacturer, neither it wants to dive into EV manufacturing. The organization simply...

September saw a global push for electric car sales and the trend was no different for the UK. The sales grew in comparison to last year, although the numbers are yet to recover to 2019 level before the COVID lockdowns. The UK market is quite...

Amazon decided to commit €1 billion to speed up its transition to net-zero carbon footprint before the end of 2027. The investment will be dedicated to purchase of electric long-haul trucks and delivery vans as well as to updating all of its package...

EV chargers offer better business than gas stations in cities, especially in city centers where land is extremely expensive. The proof is in the proverbial pudding - there are 320 public EV charging sites in Manhattan, compared to 29 gas stations....

The oil giant BP will help Hertz to build a network of EV chargers across the US to service the customers of the rental company. The network will be powered by BP Pulse chargers which are part of the oil giant’s EV charging business. BP Pulse...

The electric car sales growth is not a surprise, customers have switched their expectations and with governments around the world introducing various gas-powered vehicle restrictions and electric car subsidies, people are voting with their...

The European car market as a whole is growing for the first time since June 2021, August is the first month to record an increase in the total number of sales of passenger cars. The electric vehicles recorded a 2% growth when compared to the same...

AAA took on the testing of AEB systems because it believed the tests carried out by the IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) - the equivalent of the European NCAP - were not adequate and not representative of real-life...

The Chinese EV buyers can relax a little, the EV tax exemption the country was enjoying and which was meant to expire by the end of this year, has been extended for 2023. The government bodies - Ministry of Finance, State Taxation Administration and...

QCraft has announced its fleet of robotaxis has started operating on the streets of Suzhou in Jiangsu province, China. The autonomous driving startup's system has been developed in-house by the company and is powered by two Nvidia DRIVE Orin chips...

The UK What Car? magazine is trying to answer the same question we all ask - what is the real-life range of an electric car these days? Never mind the manufacturer’s claims or the WLTP or EPA tests - we need real-life, honest results. For the...

First things first - Voyah Free is not a new car, it has been on the market since 2020 and it’s one of the first large electric SUVs out there. Voyah is a brand of DongFeng and in China, it is called Lantu which means a blueprint - a fitting name...

SVOLT belongs to the group of China’s largest battery manufacturers, it sits comfortably among giants like BYD and CATL. The company was initially just a battery division within the Great Wall Motor, but in 2018 it was spun off as a separate...

Oh the joys of charging your EV at a public DC station, after finding one that actually works and is in a safe spot. Times of public chargers being tucked away at the back of supermarkets or storage units are slowly going away with many retailers...

As the electric car adoption speeds up and breaks new records, the raw material suppliers are ringing alarm bells all over the world. Politicians set up ambitious goals, manufacturers promise new cars and new technologies. The emissions-free future...

Nio released its unaudited results for Q2 2022, which show the carmaker was able to deliver 25,059 EVs to their owners, just shy of what it managed in Q1, but up on a yearly basis. Total revenue was RMB 10,29 million (US $1,536 million) - a...