Articles tagged "Other"

Sono Motors was founded in 2016 in Germany with a goal of designing an electric car that can harness solar energy. Fairly straightforward goal but the result is worlds apart from Lightyear Zero which was conceived with the same brief. It’s...

The original Alpine A110 is 60 years old and to celebrate it, the French performance automaker released its first electric car - the A110 E-ternite. To spice things up even more, the company gave its new sports car a removable roof, well - central...

If you have never heard of Renault Kwid or City Z-KE that’s ok, you’re not alone. But you must have heard of Dacia Spring, right? They are siblings but made for different markets - Renault sells its tiny city “CUV” in India, in China it is sold as...

P3 Group offers engineering and software development services for automotive and energy sectors. The company also created the P3 Charging Index - an independent comparison tool that can show real charging speed of different electric vehicles. The...

150 kW, 200 kW, 250 kW - when it comes to the peak power of DC charging the race seemingly won't stop. But is importance of the maximum charging power of an electric car blown out of proportion? After all DC charging in an electric car’s life...

QuantumScape is a name that comes up often when we talk about solid state batteries. The company is at the forefront of the development of technology that is supposed to revolutionize the EV industry. Established in 2010 and its progress earned it...

A lot has been said in recent days about the proposed 2035 EU wide ban on sales of new fossil fueled cars. Only yesterday we reported that 5 countries objected to it on the basis of infrastructure development delays and electric car affordability....

The EU has announced its controversial proposal to ban all ICE vehicle sales from 2035 only a couple of weeks ago and now the member states are preparing to vote whether to approve it or not. As it turns out, it’s not a clear cut case with quite few...

Airways was established in 2017 by a former chief of sales at Volvo - Fu Qiang. Company has a 300,000 vehicle factory in China and its European headquarters are in Munich, Germany. Airways is looking to expand its products to right-hand-drive...

Providing an accurate estimate for the range of electric vehicle is a next to impossible task. There are just too many variables that affect the electricity consumption of a vehicle and consequently its range. For years the ICE car owners had...

Have we got a treat for you today - there’s a Cat in the house! Any company that names its entire lineup as various Cats, deserves a closer look. No serious car company would do that so we are glad we had a chance to get up close and personal with...

Li Auto is not a new company any more - it has been manufacturing cars at scale since 2019, it has been listed at NASDAQ since 2020 and at the HKSE since 2021. It is one of those rare companies that didn’t suffer any losses in recent market trouble,...

The main reason that electric vehicles haven’t completely taken over the transportation load is the technology level of their high voltage batteries. Even though during the last decade huge advancements in the field have been made, the batteries’...

Bloomberg has been publishing its annual EVO (Electric Vehicle Outlook) report since 2015 and this year's edition shows a truly seismic shift in the electric vehicle adoption. The report looks at current trends and predicts their impact on supply...

There is one sure fire way to make your business famous - become a copycat that gets sued by a global giant. Beijing Estech Technology decided to use that strategy rather than actually come up with its own design. And out of all designs in the whole...

First of all, what is a car platform? It is the foundation on which a vehicle is based. Its design and specifications determine the rigidity of the car, its suspension design, the interior space and the relevant engineering choices such as motor,...

Solo AVT is a new company, a true startup that was only founded in September last year. But people behind the company come from Waymo, BMW and Tesla, Solo AVT closed the Seed Round with over $7 million funding from Trucks VC, Maniv Mobility and...

Many global manufacturing giants are joining the EV race, we have LG and Panasonic manufacturing batteries, we have Foxconn making cars for Fisker, we have Sony entering the market with its own vehicle. No surprise then that Samsung wanted in on the...

Rosenbaurer RTX is the world’s first electric fire truck and it is made in Austria. First prototypes hit the road back in 2019 and after extensive testing first pre-orders were taken in 2020, LAFD actually put its order in February of that year. The...

Evergrande spent about RMB47.4 billion (nearly $7 billion) setting up its EV manufacturing business and its first car is finally about to hit the market. Two Customer Experience showrooms just opened - one in Guangzhou and one in Tianjin - allowing...