Polestar 6 Roadster Sells Out in One Week!
If the Polestar 6 stole your heart, you’d better get ready to steal someone else’s reservation — they’re sold out!
If the Polestar 6 stole your heart, you’d better get ready to steal someone else’s reservation — they’re sold out!
Cruise, one of the first robotaxi companies in the world, has been operating in the San Francisco area for a couple of months. The service hasn’t always been smooth sailing, but there also hasn’t been any dramatically bad or concerning news. This past week, though, Cruise (which GM is the … [continued]
Sweden’s auto market recorded a plugin electric vehicle share of 46.1% in August 2022, a slight drop year on year from 47.1% share. Full electrics grew their share, but plugin hybrids lost more. Overall auto volumes were 26% down on pre-pandemic seasonal norms, at 20,576 units. The Volkswagen ID.4 was … [continued]
HEEHRA is a part of the new Inflation Reduction Act that provides rebates on efficient electric appliances to low and middle income families.
EV manufacturers are searching the world over for more sources of minerals and materials for lithium-ion batteries. Competition between the West and China, which controls supply chains for battery metals, is heating up the quest.
A colleague of mine was recently in London. He told me that he estimates that about 75% of his Uber rides on this latest trip to the capital of the United Kingdom were in electric vehicles. Quite a lot of these rides were in Teslas. He was quite excited about … [continued]
Oliver Blume has taken over as the new head of Volkswagen Group. His main challenge will be software related.
Chinese “smart electric vehicle” startups XPeng and NIO apparently took some big stock price hits this week due to lower than expected result in August and guidance going forward. I own shares of both, but I don’t really sweat such weeks. (Note: this is not stock advice and I offer … [continued]
The Block is a popular reality TV show in Australia. This year they took on the challenge of renovating and building six luxury homes in the middle of winter in Victoria, off grid. Six houses, each on 10 acres. It was a tree change with a sustainability twist. The original … [continued]
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) made a technological breakthrough and constructed a perovskite solar cell with the dual benefits of being both highly efficient and highly stable. The work was done in collaboration with scientists from the University of Toledo, the University … [continued]