A few years ago, I drove for Uber and Lyft in the Phoenix metro. People at the airport parking lots and Uber driver Facebook groups kept saying that robotaxis weren’t coming for our jobs, but I figured differently. We were already sharing the road with test vehicles not only from … [continued]
There was a time when combustion-powered cars didn’t make any sense in New York. In fact, back in 1898, when the city’s first cab service got started, EVs ruled the roads. The Electric Carriage and Wagon Company (ECWC) ran from 1898 until 1907, and in that time it got the … [continued]
Uber says it will import 10,000 BYD electric cars into Australia starting this year and make them available to drivers on favorable terms.
New Proposed “Green Rides” Rules Lay Groundwork for a Cleaner, More Accessible New York City
I was recently able to interview Celina Mikolajczak, Chief Battery Technology Officer at Lyten. Previously, she worked with Tesla for more than 6 years as a top battery engineer and manager. She’s also spent time at Panasonic, Uber, and Quantumscape. She’s excited about bringing lithium-sulfur batteries into a new era … [continued]
Working as an Uber or Lyft (or both) driver in an EV can be challenging. How do I know? I did it for about 50,000 miles in a 2018 Nissan LEAF. Trying to do that in an EV that lacks liquid cooling in a hot city like Phoenix didn’t turn … [continued]
Waymo’s been expanding, and usage of the company’s robotaxis has been growing steadily, but, honestly, it’s all been happening a bit slowly. That’s been the investment/financial critique of the company, that it can’t scale up quickly, easily, or profitably. An investment case is hard to make if there’s no clear … [continued]
The latest battery swapping technology from Ample promises a fully charged battery in about 5 minutes for most cars and trucks.
Hertz is well on its way to electrifying its rental car fleet, which it expects to be 50% electric cars within a few years.
Among vehicles on the road, cars going around for hours at a time giving different people rides are among the most important. Perhaps most importantly, it helps to reduce their carbon footprint, as EVs produce fewer emissions than non-electric cars. They are also less expensive to run and maintain than … [continued]
