Articles tagged "Misc"

The US Government has just committed the country to a very ambitious plan - to stop selling gas and diesel powered commercial vehicles by 2040. That means in just over 17 years there will be no new school bus, truck, delivery van or a tractor...

Volvo just unveiled its electric flagship SUV - the EX90. The car, as has always been the case with the latest Volvos, is an absolute pinnacle of safety technology. Apart from it, the new SUV looks great, has great performance and offers fairly good...

Premium electric SUV market just got busy. Last year there was only the Audi e-tron and this year suddenly we are spoilt for choice. With Audi announcing its new Q8 e-tron, what better way to evaluate the newcomer than to pit it against its...

Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS) is based in Glasgow, Scotland, and the company has just unveiled what it claims is a future of hydrogen-powered long-haul transport. The vehicle has been designed in-house and it offers industry leading solutions when...

Four members of US Congress introduced the Affordable Electric Vehicles for America Act last month. The bill addresses the biggest gripe with the current legislation - requirement for cars and their components to be manufactured within the...

Lion Electric has sold over 700 electric heavy-duty vehicles in the US since it began its operations in 2010, those vehicles covered over 10 million miles so far. Its clients are Amazon, IKEA, First Student, LA USD, NAtional Express and ZUM. There...

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...