After years of record sales and huge profits, legacy automakers are preparing for leaner times ahead. The US Big Three have killed off most of their sedans to concentrate on trucks and SUVs. GM is shuttering plants and laying off workers, and has pulled out of Europe and Russia. Ford has announced a substantial restructuring of its European operations as well.
David Marc Gurewitsch is one of the people trying to realize the City of Copenhagen’s climate and environmental ambitions in the area of the municipality’s own vehicles and machinery. And he and the municipality are close to reaching their goal. Up to 90% of the municipality’s 270 passenger cars are running on electricity today.
If you are concerned about climate change and carbon emissions, you can get solar panels and stop eating meat, AND you can enter to win a Tesla to keep your drive as green as possible.
This is the second article in the series where we delve into the compelling story of how Dale started the UK fast charging network on our motorways (freeways) as early as 2011.
Dale Vince, the founder and Managing Director of Ecotricity, gave this interview on 16th November 2017, and I am very pleased to present the second part of it, here.
Insurance companies in the UK are now seemingly reluctant to insure electric vehicles. Well, they will insure them, but they will charge drivers a premium to do so. We have no data to support a direct linkage between higher insurance rates on electric vehicles and lower adoption rates, but the logic is hard to deny.
With incentives on electric vehicles (EV) in Canada being cancelled and German EV owners being threatened to pay back incentives, Denmark … [continued]
As the Indian government gears up to aggressively promote electric vehicles across the country, companies that offer charging infrastructure have also been attracted to potentially one of the largest EV markets in the world.
Wanting to drive a zero emission vehicle that runs on sunshine, Doug White decided to do an ICE to EV conversion. He wanted to make an all island, go anywhere electric vehicle and of course, to start an EV conversion, one needs a donor vehicle. He wondered what might be the best island car ever? And the good old Mini Moke popped into his mind. Instantly he decided to make an electric Mini Moke. The perfect island car!
As the first installments of the $3 billion Volkswagen has agreed to pay to clean up its diesel emissions mess begin to arrive, states are trying hard to figure out how to spend all that money.
Off-peak charging programs for electric vehicles can provide a discount for utility customers to charge their vehicles when electricity is abundant or demand for it is low, or both. So why would a utility propose a program that offers customers no benefit to charge?
