Want to know whether a company is serious about building EVs? Don’t take its plans at face value. Don’t take even its final assembly plants for granted, especially if it’s on a flexible architecture. The truth is, if you really want to know whether a company is going to build … [continued]
The Vredestein Quatrac Pro EV, Europe’s first all-season EV tire developed specifically for battery electric vehicles and hybrids, was unveiled by Apollo Tyres, the Indian parent company of Apollo Vredestein B.V., and was touted by the company as establishing new norms for grip, efficiency, noise, and environmental impact in this … [continued]
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Cheaper tolls for cleaner trucks will help decarbonise the sector
Russia’s ability to keep signing nuclear contracts in the midst of massive sanctions over its illegal invasion of Ukraine is a complicated story. I certainly wouldn’t be signing contracts for energy with Russia right now.
The story these days is batteries, batteries, batteries. Scaling up electric vehicle production is all about scaling up batteries, and scaling up the mineral mining and refining essential to batteries. Scaling up renewable energy generation capacity is all about scaling up battery storage capacity to help with the fluctuations in … [continued]
It’s been over a year since the last EV trip to the outskirts of Europe by the journalist team of WysokieNapięcie.pl (unchangingly, the #1 analytical site for energy and technology news in Poland). That was when they were travelling to the southernmost point of continental Europe — Punta Marroqui — … [continued]
Ember Climate is a renewable energy advocacy group in Europe. This week, it issued a report which claims electricity from solar energy resources saved Europeans $29 billion this summer. Let’s take look at the numbers. Europe derived 12% (99.4 TWh) of its electricity this summer from solar resources. That’s up … [continued]
BYD has announced it will build an electric car factory in Thailand to serve the southeast Asia market as well as Australia.
EV manufacturers are searching the world over for more sources of minerals and materials for lithium-ion batteries. Competition between the West and China, which controls supply chains for battery metals, is heating up the quest.
