Originally published on EV Obsession. The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) had been holding the #1 spot in electric car sales in the Netherlands for a while. It’s been doing well in other European markets as well, propelling it to #1 in Europe as a whole. But it has been kicked off its … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. It’s one of the electric cars I still haven’t driven and would love to give a spin. The Renault Zoe is dominating electric car sales in its home country of France this year, with its Japanese cousin the Nissan LEAF and sibling the Renault Kangoo … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. The German electric car market is a fun one. Of course, German automakers have an advantage, but they have so many models on the market that there’s quite a lot of shifting around from month to month. Sadly, Germany doesn’t really live up to its potential … [continued]
A one-week cleantech tour (and semi-vacation) in the Netherlands put my “link drop” articles on hold for a bit, but I was saving stories along the way. After a couple of weeks, below is a massive list of non-CleanTechnica electric vehicle (especially Tesla), bicycle, and transit stories that I think … [continued]
As noted in an article yesterday, I’ve been very busy in the past month (well, months…) moving into a new home and following the birth of a sweet little cleantech lover. Inevitably, “roundup articles” of important or interesting cleantech news we didn’t cover dropped off as a result. With a … [continued]
Time for another EV news roundup. I’m breaking it up into sections this time. Enjoy! Tesla Battery Swap Dead End: Tesla hasn’t hitting its battery-swapping rolling target (which was about 7 months ago) and it hasn’t mentioned it. Has battery swapping hit a complete dead end? Fully Charged Tour: A Tesla tour … [continued]
Indeed, I may very well have OCD. Rather than pick 10 like any normal blogger, I went ahead and picked 100 top EV stories for this end-of-year wrap up. And these follow the 33 I highlighted at the end of May. Incidentally, I didn’t aim for 100 but just happened … [continued]
Granted, you will likely never be able to buy an $845,000 Porsche 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid sports car (well, maybe some of you can, but most of us can’t), but you can now have some one configuring one online. Stephen Edelstein of Green Car Reports writes: Wannabe Porsche owners can try out … [continued]
Some more top clean transportation news from around the internet: BMW, Siemens, Daimler, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and many others are working together on joint research project called Visio.M to “develop concepts to produce electric cars that are efficient, safe, and inexpensive,” BMW reports. “Lead manager of the project is BMW AG. … [continued]
