Replacing a working gasoline vehicle can create a short manufacturing carbon debt while avoiding years of much larger combustion emissions.
“The greenest car is the one already built” has been one of the more durable arguments against replacing internal combustion cars with EVs. It sounds sensible enough. Manufacturing a new vehicle has a carbon cost, while continuing to drive an existing car avoids another manufacturing event. But that framing quietly … [continued]
Recurrent foresees an EV tipping point coming to the US over the next 5 years, but whether it is accurate or optimistic remains to be seen.
Tariffs that protect local industries have some benefits, but tariffs that exclude entire nations are ultimately self-defeating.
On May 29, 1953, New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain above sea level. Everest is part of the Himalayas, a mountain range that forms most of the border between Nepal and Tibet — an area that … [continued]
EV sales have reached more than 14 million so far this year, with more than three-quarters of them coming from Chinese companies.
After an investigation that began last fall, the European Union has raised tariffs on electric cars imported from China.
Electric cars are making news this week in new reports that highlight price parity with conventional cars in the used car market.
Brussels airport is adding 700 low power EV chargers for travelers who drive electric cars to use while they are away.
The push to make less expensive electric cars for American drivers is spurring intense competition to lower manufacturing costs.
DALL·E generated image of Porsches, BMWs and Ford electric cars charging up at Tesla Supercharger station, digital art
Electric cars are up to 75 percent more efficient that conventional cars, which waste 80% of the energy in their gas tanks.
