World Car Person of the Year — Stella Li

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:30:51 +0000

If you follow the electric vehicle industry, you should know who Stella Li is. She’s the second most famous person at BYD, and she has been the leader of the company outside of China for several years. She’s the company’s Executive Vice President, and she just won an award that … [continued]

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Legacy Automakers Keep Throwing Money At Their Enemies

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:57:45 +0000

Theoretically, legacy automakers don’t want the transition to electric vehicles to go too fast. They want to make the most money possible from existing fossil-fueled models and production lines for those models. The investments have been made — into R&D, production lines, supply chains, etc. Now automakers want to get … [continued]

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Honda to Sell Electric Car Under $30,000 in USA?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:50:41 +0000

While electric vehicles are doing quite well in luxury car segments, many of our readers (and writers) have lamented that we don’t have enough affordable electric cars, and no really affordable electric cars. Honda may be looking to change that. It may be arriving to the EV party a decade … [continued]

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EV Ecosystem in the Philippines Boosted By $100M Support from Asian Development Bank

Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:09:51 +0000

Country’s biggest conglomerate, the Ayala Group, gets to manage the financing package The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a financing package of up to PhP583 billion ($100 million) to support Ayala Corporation’s efforts in developing an electric mobility ecosystem in the Philippines. This funding will be used to procure … [continued]

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The Past, Present, and Future of Renewable Energy — Interview with LandGate CEO Yoann Hispa

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:35:56 +0000

Renewable energy has clearly turned a corner and hit the inflection points that so many pundits have forecast for so long. Since the invention of the solar panel more than 70 years ago through 2022, the world added 1 terrawatt of solar energy production capacity. From 2022 through the end … [continued]

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Data Centers and Renewable Energy — Assuring the Future of Data is Clean

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:35:35 +0000

A recent project for carbon capture using renewable energy was kiboshed after years of exploration and development. It was called Project Bison, and it was set to be built in Wyoming, where there is a ton of renewable energy. The idea was that this plentiful, cheap, clean energy could be … [continued]

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Flexis Offers Vehicles & Embedded Solutions for Connected, Electrified Urban Logistics

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:59:43 +0000

With three cutting-edge electric vehicle models and a comprehensive ecosystem of services to serve the full urban logistics lifecycle, Flexis is transforming urban logistics. With its state-of-the-art SDV electrical architecture and common EV-native skateboard platform, Flexis presents three vehicle variants designed to address the urban logistical issues facing Europe. The … [continued]

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First 100% Green Corridor Between Spain & Morocco — Two 100% Electric “Fast Ferries”

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:40:59 +0000

Baleària, a Spanish ferry operator, has launched a concept to create the first green corridor between Spain and Morocco, which will be served by two 100% electric, zero-emission fast boats. These twin ships will be used to connect the cities of Tangier, Morocco, and Tarifa, Spain, on the “most sustainable” … [continued]

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Transportation Firm Deathwatch: Hydrogen & EVTOLs

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:34:06 +0000

For several years there have been a couple of parallel slow motion failures in the making, the use of hydrogen in transportation and the Jetsons’ fantasy of air taxis zipping over cities. Neither were based in economic, regulatory, or technical reality, preferring instead to have vast sums of governmental and … [continued]

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Honest Thinking: Why Did Elon Musk Say in 2017 a Self-Driving Tesla Would Go from LA to NYC in 2017?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:23:45 +0000

One of the more wild claims Elon Musk has made — regarding Tesla, that is — was back in 2016 when he said a self-driving Tesla would be able to go from Los Angeles to New York City “in ~2 years” (in early 2018). A year and a few months … [continued]

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