There’s been a quiet — but enormous — revolution underway in the public transit world of Moscow in the past few years. In just a bit more than three years, Moscow has put more than 1,000 electric buses on the road! A little more than a year ago, I reported … [continued]
Now that readers helped me find data on China’s DC Fast Charging (DCFC) infrastructure, I’m ready to see if a vehicle like the Aptera could drive across all of Eurasia.
Before seeing this headline, if I asked you to guess which city in Europe just got its 500th electric bus, it’s highly unlikely you would have guessed Moscow. Russia is a major oil & gas country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s next presidential motorbike escorts will be going electric. Considering the fact that Russia is heavily dependent on its oil industry and has long been a barrier to faster climate action, this comes as a bit of a surprise, but that shows how much the electric revolution is crossing the world.
Yandex will increase its stake in new self-driving vehicle company (Yandex SDG) to 73% and invest an additional $150 million in its future development.
Back in 2012, the Moscow Tesla Club was launched. Since then, the club’s founders have been able to deliver more than 350 Teslas (and other electric cars) all over Russia. In addition, they’ve developed charging infrastructure and lobbied local government officials in order to support the EV movement. Recently, the founders of Moscow Tesla Club financed a new website, EV Compare, to further promote EVs.
Igor Antarov is a Business Partner at the Moscow Tesla Club, an organization that promotes Tesla electric vehicles and sells and services them. It also sells and installs EV chargers, and supports the EV community, among other activities. In 2013, the club began delivering the Tesla Model S in Russia, and in March of 2018, imported the first Model 3.
As we revealed in our previous article, air pollution is a serious problem that costs millions of lives each year and is a drain on the world economy. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) air pollution is now a bigger health threat than HIV and Ebola. You might now be wondering how your own city measures up against others from around the world, where it sits in the rankings, and what the health effects of air pollution might be.
The urban heat island effect — effectively, the reality that dark roads and buildings in urban areas absorb and radiate far more heat than vegetation in rural areas does, which makes cities notably hotter than surrounding areas — is going to more than double the city-level costs of dealing with rising temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change over the coming century, according to a new study.
Tesla is reportedly in the process of securing real estate in Moscow and St. Petersburg for use as new showrooms and service centers, according to recent reports. Presumably, the company is working to establish a presence in the market before the release of the Model 3. Likely sites for Tesla locations are reportedly the “Atrium” and “Vremena Goda” in Moscow.
