Toyota & Panasonic Joint Venture Plans To Cut Battery Costs By 50%
The joint venture between Toyota and Panasonic will soon be able of producing enough batteries for 80,000 electric cars. That’s not nearly enough.
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Jeep Claims Wrangler 4xe Is Now The Top-Selling PHEV In The US
In its Q2 2021 press release issued on July 1, FCA/Stellantis had two statements that made me do a doubletake: Jeep Wrangler 4xe – No. 1 best-selling plug-in hybrid. Since the full launch of the Wrangler 4xe earlier this year, it quickly became the No. 1 best-selling plug-in hybrid in … [continued]
Inside The Unique Tesla Cybertruck’s Solar Charging Tonneau Cover
The next iteration, hopefully the production version, of Tesla’s Cybertruck should prove to be quite different from the prototype. Questions still remain about its size (ummm, garage-compatible?) and some of the forthcoming design tweaks. But one production-ready feature, teased via a recent Tesla patent application, really seems to stand out. It turns out that … [continued]
Tesla Model 3 & Model Y = #1 and #2 in Global EV Sales in May
Global plugin vehicle registrations were up an impressive 199% last month compared to May 2020, to some 442,000 units (or 6.6% share of the overall auto market). That was the industry’s 3rd best month ever. Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) jumped 190%, to some 295,000 registrations (or 4.4% share). We should … [continued]
Kia Shows Us How Hybrids Are Changing & Improving, Leading To More EVs
For my first trip of the Untold EV & Cleantech Stories project, I wanted to take an EV along. My 40 kWh LEAF doesn’t have sufficient range to make it across the country, as a number of Electrify America stations are too far apart for it at highway speeds. My … [continued]
Subsidizing EV Charging Instead Of Electric Cars?
I recently came across an interesting idea on Twitter that I think deserves further exposure and discussion. “Elonardo Muskaprario” on Twitter (I’m reasonably sure this isn’t the user’s real name) proposes that we subsidize EV charging instead of the purchase of vehicles. In some ways, this idea makes a lot … [continued]
Ford Maverick Hybrid Pickup Starts At $19,995
Meet the Ford Maverick Hybrid pickup truck that seats 5 and gets 40 mpg in the city.
Nissan Officially Electrifies Philippine Car Market with the LEAF
Nissan introduced the LEAF to the Philippines on May 9, officially plugging the country into the electric vehicle era. Nissan Philippines Inc. (NPI), the local sales distribution unit which is partly owned by Nissan Motor Corp. of Japan, is focused on an ecosystem approach to LEAF sales and support. The … [continued]
Electric Ford Mustang Mach-E Recreates Historic Ocean-to-Ocean Drive
Early on the morning of June 1st, 1909, Henry Ford entered two of his Model Ts in the first coast-to-coast, transcontinental American road race. And, while it wasn’t quite the Cannonball Run, that race tested the endurance and capability of an emerging technology that was still being referred to as … [continued]
Reasons Continuing ICE Development Is A Good Idea
People in the cleantech community often say that manufacturers shouldn’t be spending any money developing new internal combustion engines (ICE). Instead, people say, they should devote resources to electric vehicles and phase out the existing engine designs over the next few years. While I get what’s being said, I don’t … [continued]
