I recently had the opportunity to chat with Olivier Onidi, Director of Innovative & Sustainable Mobility in the European Commission, about EU electric vehicle (EV) policy. He had some interesting things to say regarding overall EU policy as well as some country-specific policies. Here is a video of that interview: Estonia is … [continued]
I attended the amazing Zayed Future Energy Prize Awards Ceremony tonight (for the second year in a row). The Zayed Future Energy Prize Awards Ceremony is sort of like the Academy Awards of cleantech — quite a show. This year, the event actually included a performance from The Human Orchestra, which has … [continued]
ABB’s director of electric vehicles (“e-mobility,” as it’s called in Europe), Hans Streng, recently wrote a pretty popular piece on how fast electric vehicle battery prices are coming down and how much that’s going to transform the auto and energy markets. Our readers asked for more details following the repost, … [continued]
At the end of my recent interview with Mike Tinskey, Ford’s global director of vehicle electrification and vehicle infrastructure, I brought up comments made by Tesla co-founder Marc Tarpenning regarding the internal barriers major car companies (like Ford) face in transitioning to EVs. A key source of those barriers is that these companies now outsource much of the … [continued]
For a long time, the auto industry has basically just been about selling cars (and trucks, SUVs, etc). However, electric vehicles are a new breed of automobile. Actually, there’s a lot more “auto” potential with these vehicles, as well as linkages to new models of revenue production that are a … [continued]
By Ross Chanin & Emilee Pierce If you read the tech press, you know the scoop: Google just bought Nest Labs (the maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors) for $3.2 billion. For context, that’s more than three times the amount that Facebook paid for Instagram in last year’s blockbuster and Google’s second largest acquisition to … [continued]
I recently got a chance to check out the Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid first-hand at EVS27 in Barcelona. It’s a beauty. (Unfortunately, there were no test drives available for this one.) Below are most of the pictures I snapped of the upcoming Panamera S E-Hybrid (I only left out near-duplicates). Following the pictures are … [continued]
Ford recently covered my trip to Dearborn, Michigan, so that I could attend some of its events and NAIAS. In this first article from the trip, I’ll focus on my test drive of the 2014 Ford Fusion Energi in Michigan, from Dearborn to Detroit. More articles on the NAIAS events … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. A couple of GM plug-in car enthusiasts over on GM-Volt have test driven the Cadillac ELR (a plug-in hybrid electric car that comes with a lot of luxury and a hefty price tag). Kindly (and I’m sure enthusiastically), they have shared their own reviews of … [continued]
Even Bentley is getting into the plug-in car game. The company known for its rather shitty cars 😉 has stated that its upcoming SUV model will have a plug-in hybrid option by 2017. Not only that — the luxury car manufacturer will be hybridizing all of its new models. “The … [continued]
