The UK government’s plan to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2040 is too tame, advisers will say. Drivers will benefit if electric cars come to dominate the new car market a full decade earlier, they will claim. The Committee on Climate Change believes the cost Read more…
Europe is enjoying high growth of plug-in electric car sales, which reached a new all-time record of almost 60,000. EV Sales Blog reports 59,741 sales (up 38% year-over-year) at 3.5% market share (including 2.4% for BEVs). It’s even better when we add that the overall market shrunk by 4% in Read more…
Norway’s capital city of Oslo will be the world’s first metropolitan area to install wireless, induction-based charging stations for electric taxis, in a bid to make a zero-emission cab system by as early as 2023, according to Reuters. Norway wants to go even further than that, however, and is mandating Read more…
Deliveries for long-range version of all-electric SUV, capable of 300 miles on a single charge, will start in 2020. Tesla has unveiled its latest attempt to thrust electric vehicles (EVs) into the mass market, last night debuting a new mid-size family car capable of driving up to 300 miles on Read more…
An acquaintance recently posted a picture of a retail hydrogen pump in Sacramento on social media. The solitary pump, lonely in its sea of asphalt under a suitably gloomy sky, was charging $16.85 USD per kilogram of hydrogen. Why is that important? Well, a kilogram of hydrogen is the energy Read more…
It’s certainly possible to say that the dramatic re-emergence of electric cars in recent years is set to continue. One main reason is the UK government’s projection to stop the sales of new petrol and diesel models by 2040. It also pledged that at least half of all new vehicles Read more…
There will be an additional 21m electric vehicles on the road globally in the next decade, according to new analysis by audit firm Deloitte. In 2018 there were two million electric cars, with Deloitte predicting the number to rise to four million in 2020, 12m in 2025 and 21m by Read more…
Latest data from Go UItra Low reveals 60,000 electric cars were registered in the UK last year, as market grew 19 per cent. A new electric car was registered every nine minutes in the UK last year, as demand for zero emission vehicles continued to soar. New figures from the Read more…
The total cost of ownership of electric vehicles in Europe is now cheaper than owning its petrol or diesel equivalent model, a new report says. Looking at a complete range of cost factors in five European countries in owning a VW Golf, researchers found that over four years the battery Read more…
As more affordable and longer-range electric cars hit the market, the long-predicted shift to battery-powered transportation seems poised to actually happen. But a serious challenge remains: battery-sucking cold weather. New research from AAA reveals that when the mercury dips to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, the average driving range of an electric Read more…
