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...
Writing about politics is never fun, in fact that’s probably the least interesting thing to write about despite the politics actually affecting our lives a lot. What is even less fun - if that’s possible - is writing about politicians. Sometimes it...
There’s nothing sexy about numbers, most of the time they are just boring bunch of digits getting in the way of our easy lives. But often the numbers tell us interesting stories and even forecast the future. A truly electrifying skill. There is...
The California Air Resources Board issued a new rule meant to speed up the shift to electric vehicles. The vote of the new legislation was unanimous and is hoped to have a huge impact on other states, with 15 already adopting California’s previous...
SAIC Motor is the Chinese state owned car manufacturer and it is the biggest of the Big Four - SAIC, FAW, Dongfeng and Changan Automobile. Just to give you an idea how big the company is, it sold 5.37 million cars in 2021. That’s 8% of global car...
More and more car manufacturers announce their intentions to stop selling fossil fueled cars. Volvo made its pledge a long time ago, Cadillac and Mercedes-Benz have plans to stop by 2030, Stellantis, Ford Europe, GM, Audi and VW - they all set their...
Yesterday President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. A momentous day, although highly controversial, the act will mean a lot of changes in the US with many of them hailed as the biggest changes in a generation. Among many...
It feels like every time we look into news from China, there is a new EV company popping up. But the truth is, the speed of electric car development in China is immense and hard to keep up with. Yes, there are plenty of new companies showing up and...
Not too long ago, ICE cars with power outputs of 150-200 ps were considered high performance machines and had all the acronyms associated with this, GTi, Type R, S etc. In the ICE world, the basic outputs of the cars start from very low and the...
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