Did GM Just Use The EV1 To Troll Ford, Again? Or Tesla? Or Both?
The death of the EV1 was reported prematurely according to GM, which is preparing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1990’s electric car this year.
GM EV1
As The EV Landscape Changes, So Do The Ads
Chevrolet’s “EVs for Everyone” ad starts with a woman’s voice saying, “It’s beautiful,” as she walks over to a Chevy Bolt EUV in the middle of a pastoral field as she gets ready for her hiking adventure, and then it promptly cuts away to a couple of men loading up … [continued]
Denmark Crushes 50% EV Sales Barrier — Now What?
I wonder what characters like Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Hans Christian Ørsted, and Michael Faraday would think about the current shift in the world’s energy systems? Well, Mr. Ørsted and Mr. Faraday would probably think mostly about the technology emerging right know as an only natural extension of their own … [continued]
Points Biden Is Missing: GM Has Fought EV Progress (Repeatedly), Tesla Has Led Vehicle Electrification.
I find it really odd that the Biden administration is not only ignoring Tesla and its contributions to the electric vehicle market but is outright lying to the American people about General Motors (GM) being the leader of the industry. I’ve written about this already, but other things have happened … [continued]
The Road to Solid-State EVs — Part 4
The Mastering of the Electric Power That Controls the Batteries and Motors of Electric Vehicles
Tracing The Ancestry of Today’s Electric Vehicles (Part 2)
This article is part of a short series on the history of EVs. You can find Part 1 here. The Tesla Roadster Both the compliance cars and the serious cars since 2010 have one big thing in common: they were forced into existence by pressure from the Tesla Roadster. Like … [continued]
An Automaker Is Born — The Early Days Of Tesla (New Book Excerpt)
It sometimes happens that a symbolic event marking the end of one era neatly coincides with an event that ushers in the next, although no one notices the concurrence at the time. In late 2003, a brief renaissance of electric vehicles came to an ignominious end, as GM rounded up and smashed its EV1 electric cars. Just a few weeks later, three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs sat down for a fateful lunch.
Tesla’s Wild Ride — Birth to 2020
The past 12 years of Tesla’s growth and development has been a sight to see, and it’s been a terrific story to cover closely since 2012. This past week was the 10 year anniversary of Tesla buying its Fremont factory from Toyota and GM. Tesla cofounder and CEO Elon Musk recently reflected on the company’s growth since then and memories of that period, which feels like a lifetime ago.
We Should Thank The GM EV1 (And Its Death) For Tesla
Considering how much major automakers are struggling to develop their own commercially viable EVs and catch up with Tesla, it’s ironic that several of these brands did produce EVs back in the 1990s, but cancelled those models, leaving the field wide open for the California upstart.
The Nobel Prize, Exxon & The Beginning Of A Battery Revolution
It would be hard to think of any technology more critical to today’s technological wonders than the lithium-ion battery, which is found in everything from tiny hearing aids to giant power plants. Three pioneers of our “rechargeable world” — John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino — have now won a well-deserved Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in developing lithium-ion energy storage technology (as reported by Bloomberg).
