By 2035, every new car and truck sold in the U.S. could be an EV, a new report says. Accelerations in technology and especially battery affordability, paired with new policy, mean the dramatic transition would save American drivers .7 trillion by 2050, an average savings of ,000 per household per year. The ramp up in […]
Champion NASCAR drivers recently had a chance to test a new Ford vehicle. It has seven motors in it. It has 1,400 horsepower. And it’s electric. Mark Rushbrook is global director of Ford Performance Motorsports. The company developed a racing version of its all-electric Mustang Mach-E crossover.
The future of electric vehicle charging is already in Scotland, and it’s helping push the country toward net-zero carbon emissions. Cars on the island of Yell, located in the Shetland Islands in Scotland’s northernmost region, can now be fueled entirely by tidal energy from Nova Innovation‘s tidal turbines. Tidal turbines are large, revolving machines anchored […]
Heavy duty electric trucks (a.k.a. semis) cost so much less to operate per mile than diesel-powered trucks at today’s prices that they would pay for themselves in just three years, according to a new report by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UCLA, and UC-Berkeley. Electrifying heavy-duty trucks would substantially improve air quality. Semis account […]
Bavarian carmaker BMW, owner of the iconic Mini range since 1994, plans solely electric versions from 2030, reported Der Spiegel magazine on Friday. No more combustion models and not even hybrids would emerge next decade, added BMW sources cited by the German news agency dpa. Currently, BMW’s only full electric version is the Mini Cooper […]
By Tara Lohan The internal combustion engine had a good run. It helped get us to where we need to go for more than a century, but its days as the centerpiece of the automotive industry are waning. As countries work to cut greenhouse gas emissions, electrification is stealing the limelight. While there’s still a […]
Almost a decade after moving into the electric vehicle industry, Elon Musk’s Tesla is supersizing its plans to bring its battery technology into the power storage game. Gambit Energy Storage LLC, a Tesla subsidiary, is building a 100 megawatt energy storage project in Arlington, Texas, outside of Houston. The giant battery will plug into the […]
By David Reichmuth Over the last month, I’ve seen a number of opinion articles attacking electric vehicles (EVs). Sadly, this comes as no surprise: now that the Biden administration is introducing federal policies to accelerate the roll out of electric vehicles, we were bound to see a reaction from those that oppose reducing climate changing […]
FedEx’s entire parcel pickup and delivery fleet will become 100 percent electric by 2040, according to a statement released Wednesday. The ambitious plan includes checkpoints, such as aiming for 50 percent electric vehicles by 2025. To reach this goal, the delivery company will commit more than billion to vehicle electrification, sustainable energy and carbon sequestration, […]
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