Electric Car Conversion: Classic Volvo 240 GL
January 21st, 2021 | by Jo Borrás
EV conversion: this classic Volvo 240 GL wagon goes fully electric in the Netherlands with a 100-mile range, and 10 years of reliability!
January 21st, 2021 | by Jo Borrás
EV conversion: this classic Volvo 240 GL wagon goes fully electric in the Netherlands with a 100-mile range, and 10 years of reliability!
January 19th, 2021 | by Jo Borrás
The Swedish city of Gothenburg is home to one of the largest and busiest ports in the world. Despite this, the city has set a rather ambitious climate goal for itself. With the help newly created urban zones that will serve as test beds for advanced sustainable technologies, Gothenburg plans to become a climate-neutral city by the year 2030. What's more, they've enlisted Volvo to help
January 18th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
On Saturday, I published a new CleanTechnica report showing that US auto sales were down 15% in 2020, whereas Tesla's US sales were estimated to be up 9%. Only two companies other than Tesla had their US sales increase in 2020 — Volvo and Alfa Romeo, each by 2%. However
January 16th, 2021 | by Zachary Shahan
The US auto market took a whipping in 2020. No one knows why. (Oh ... yeah ... never mind.) Overall, US auto sales were down by 2,592,185, or 15%, last year. Only three automakers saw their year-over-year sales increase from 2019 to
January 9th, 2021 | by Jose Pontes
The Netherlands had an amazing 30,860 plugin registrations in December, a 34% increase over the previous all-time record, set in the same month of last year, which itself was beating a 4 year old record
January 6th, 2021 | by Jo Borrás
In a break from tradition, both of the Polestar production EVs have tied for Business Insider's "Car of the Year" Honors for 2020!
January 6th, 2021 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Norway, the auto market most advanced down the path to electromobility, has seen new records broken in December, with 87.1% market share for plugin electric vehicles. Over two thirds were pure electric vehicles, and non-hybrid combustion vehicles fell to just 7.5% market share
January 5th, 2021 | by Jo Borrás
Just three months after its debut in Beijing, the all-new Lynk & Co ZERO EV concept car hits the test track and proves its worth!
December 29th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
Despite the overall automotive market being in the doghouse, -14% year over year (YoY), Europe's passenger plugin market is on fire, having score a record 166,000 registrations in November (+198% YoY). That placed last month's plugin share at 16% share — 8% full electrics (BEV)
December 28th, 2020 | by Jo Borrás
Europe's seven largest commercial truck makers have jointly agreed to end the sale of diesel-engined trucks by 2040. Instead, Daf, Daimler, Ford, Iveco, Man, Scania, and Volvo will switch focus to hydrogen fuel cell and battery-electric vehicles, allowing them to achieve their zero-emissions goals a full decade earlier than previously planned
December 21st, 2020 | by Jennifer Sensiba
In Tesla's 2020 shareholder meeting, one shareholder proposal would have required the company to investigate the poor treatment of cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
December 19th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
November saw the Dutch plugin vehicle (PEV) market stay at full charge, with 9,910 registrations representing the market's best score ever if we exclude December months, which are prone to incentive-derived year-end rushes
December 3rd, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Electric vehicle pioneer Norway saw plugin vehicle market share standing at 80% in November 2020, up from 60% in November 2019. Old school non-hybrid fossil vehicles saw their share decline to just 10.5% (from 27.1% a year ago). The overall auto market volume was up 25% year-on-year
December 1st, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
#1 Volkswagen ID.3 — Veni, vidi, vici. After years of anticipation, the 2021 best selling EV in Europe has finally landed, and in only its second month on the market, the new German hatchback has hit its first five-digit score, with 10,584 registrations
November 23rd, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Transport & Environment is a European based NGO whose mission is “a zero-emission mobility system that is affordable and has [&hellip
November 18th, 2020 | by Jose Pontes
October saw the Dutch electric vehicle (EV) market return to the fast lane, jumping 228% year over year (YoY) to 9,116 units, the market's best score ever if we exclude December months (which are prone to incentive-derived year-end rushes)
November 12th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Volvo Trucks has gotten an award to supply 70 Class 8 VNR electric trucks to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) in Southern California