The Chinese firm Munro Motor has revealed an interesting-looking new electric scooter dubbed the Munro 2.0 — capable of up to 30 miles of travel and starting at ~$800 in China. With 2 battery packs, the model features a range of up to 60 miles (reportedly). The most expensive configurations of the model will run ~$1,200.
Automakers are not stupid and they have every right to make as much money as they can possibly stuff into their wallets. But deliberately lying to people to cover up your own greed-induced behavior is despicable.
The Volkswagen Group has joined the electric vehicle charging (eRoaming) platform Hubject as a shareholder, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica.
Editor’s Note: Would a coalition-built superfast charging network have been ready for the Tesla Model 3? Will the freshly announced Daimler + Volkswagen + BMW + Ford network be anywhere close to Tesla’s size or usefulness in 2020? 2025? 2030? Was Daimler really trying to help Tesla with some 2014 advice or was it simply trying to slow EV adoption? Anyhow, with those questions out of the way, on to TeslaMondo’s great article …
Billions of euros are being invested into Europe’s EV market. Most of the industry’s best known vehicles are available. The race to build the infrastructure, which can help make them the vehicle of choice, lags behind. Ford, Volkswagen Group, BMW Group, and Daimler are entering into the race with joint plans to develop 400 sites by 2020. However, Fastned has already built 55 stations throughout the Netherlands and, on December 1, announced the opening of Europe’s 1st “Urban Fast Charging Station” in The Hague, Holland, the Netherlands.
The electric vehicle prototypes revealed by nanoFlowcell in recent years have been somewhat controversial, with some questioning whether or not flow-cell batteries are even suitable for use in vehicles.
I approached Leonardo DiCaprio and Fisher Stevens’s new film, Before the Flood, with trepidation. The last climate change documentary I watched (Josh Fox’s How to Let Go of the World and Love Everything the Climate Can’t Change) left me depressed for weeks. But, right from the start, Before the Flood offers an alternative to the typical doom-and-gloom … [continued]
BMW has now launched the BMW Cruise e-Bike line, available for $3,430, in North America. The new line of e-bikes — all featuring BOSCH Performance Line electric motors — includes the “lightweight, quick BMW Cruise Bike for the casual rider in urban environments; the sporty, stylish, and dynamic BMW M Cruise Bike … [continued]
Rather than contract to an outside firm, the German logistics company Deutsche Post has gone ahead and designed and built its own electric delivery van, as we reported in April and August. The new vehicles (1,000 of them) are already deployed in various German cities (replacing Volkswagen vans), according to … [continued]
The electric vehicle startup Faraday Future now employees more than 1,000 people on the US, according to a new press release from the firm. The employment milestone means that the firm has expanded pretty rapidly, considering that it was founded only a bit more than 2 years ago, in May … [continued]
