You may know me as the Grumpy Old Man down in the comments. What is less known: I am also extremely lazy. For all the visitors to the opening ceremony of Fastned’s first charging station complete with convenience store, children’s playground, and outside sitting area, they made large panels with … [continued]
Volkswagen Group outsells Tesla in Europe with a single model. Yep, there is a single Volkswagen Group model that outsells the Model Y in Europe. And now you all think I am crazy and do not know what I am writing about. Now I ask you, find the differences: The … [continued]
Ursula von der Leyen gave her State of the European Union speech Wednesday 09/10/2025. It is not a main event like the similar speech of the USA president — only half of the members of the EU parliament were present. But I decided to listen to it. With the war … [continued]
Fastned was founded to enable “Electric Freedom,” the capability to travel by electric car everywhere the driver likes to go, something that was not possible in the first electric car age. That is roughly the period from 1880 to 1930. The grid, the batteries, and the charging possibilities of those … [continued]
Four months ago, the leading French charge point operators (CPOs) united in a “fraternity” or professional association under the name “Charge France.” It started with 13 members. Currently, there are 18, all exploiting a network of DC fast charging stations with multiple chargers. Tesla and some recent entries into the … [continued]
The Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS38) in Gothenburg is all about charging. The biggest and most important scientific conference in the world about everything connected to the transition to electric mobility is completely devoted to charging. Over 400 abstracts were submitted, all covering one aspect or another of the charging technology, … [continued]
The European Spark Alliance is not coming to the USA. I am sorry for all our readers between the Atlantic and Pacific and between Canada and Mexico. Charging will remain problematic at least until the next administration in Washinton D.C. For all our other readers outside Europe, I hope your … [continued]
Ursula von der Leyen proudly announced last week that she would help the EU car industry to comply with the EU’s CAFE regulations in a more lenient way. They could take three years to reach compliance with the regulation’s new CO2 limits, rather than doing so this year. Without this … [continued]
Let’s talk about range. What is range for you? We recently had comments from Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson about a 30kWh midsize family car with 180 miles of range in 10 years. Our own Zach Shahan followed with an article about the benefits of building cars with less range. Both … [continued]
The unavoidable demise of the western car industry in China is not on the forefront of managers’ minds, and neither on those of journalistic or financial followers of the industry. And that is strange. For many conglomerates in the industry, China is their biggest and most profitable market. Losing it … [continued]
