The annual production of self-driving cars will hit the 14.5 million mark by 2025, according to a new report from Juniper Research. This rapid production expansion will be driven mostly by so-called “ride-sharing” firms such as Uber and Lyft (on-demand taxi services), the report argues.
If you like watching top-of-line Teslas smoke much more expensive super cars in drag races, then I’ve got what you want — footage of a Tesla Model X P90D with Ludicrous Mode smoking (briefly) a Ferrari 458 Italia in a quarter-mile drag race.
Lucid Motors — the company that was previously known as Atieva, and is known for videos of a retrofitted Mercedes van dubbed Edna beating various super cars in drag races — recently gave the public its first real look at the luxury sedan that the company is developing (at the Los Angeles Auto Show).
An additional £390 million in funding for the support of electric vehicle and self-driving tech adoption in the UK has been announced by Chancellor Philip Hammond, as part of an Autumn Statement that also revealed that the government would be extending the current tax breaks for electric vehicle charge points.
We recently provided some exclusive reporting (specs and renderings) on a plug-in electric pickup truck concept being put together by Workhorse Group — one that the company apparently intends to be the “most economical, safest and lowest emissions pickup truck in America.” Following that news, the company has now revealed that it will be unveiling a working version of the W-15 electric pickup work truck concept, with range extender, at the upcoming ACT EXPO Conference in May 2017. We’ll have a reporter there to get the full rundown.
With the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid pretty much now here (in the US market), it looks as though the 2017 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid has some serious competition. Arguably, for the first time.
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Since its first green bond launched in 2008, the World Bank has issued 127 green bonds in 18 currencies, totalling approximately $9.6 billion equivalent.
On February 9, 2015, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) brought forward a proposal to install more than 25,000 EV charging stations within its territory. Readily embraced by environmentalists, the project faced opposition from ratepayers (questioning the value of this investment) and other EV charging service providers (who did not relish direct competition from a utility).
It makes more sense from an economic standpoint to recycle old plug-in electric vehicle batteries than to reuse them directly for home energy storage, according to a new report from Lux Research. The primary reason? According to Lux Research, reused plug-in electric vehicle batteries will “deliver questionable returns on account of reduced performance, limiting them to application with less frequent and shallower depth of discharge cycles.”
