Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 23:54:14 +0000
Maybe it is my demographic, but I am finding that touring the country in an electric vehicle is vastly different to the mad dash to the destination in a petrol car. Being an EV tourist is different. Take Brian and his wife Kate, for example. They deliberately chose to drive to a location just because […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 12:07:08 +0000
Tesla is on a roll this week. To keep up with its almost constantly growing sales, Tesla has been ramping up Model Y production at sites around the world. It has also just broken ground on a lithium refinery project. The big news on both fronts this week comes from The Lone Star State. (Unfortunately, […]
Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 05:00:49 +0000
“Air pollution from road transport kills 70,000 Europeans prematurely every year and causes a multitude of diseases including cancer, stroke and cardiovascular disease.”
Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 02:10:53 +0000
Spearheaded by Tesla, price cuts in BEV lines have been happening all over the world … and, more recently, seem to have arrived in Latin America. BYD in Colombia BYD has been a local player in Colombia since the early 2010s, when it both started selling gasoline vehicles (particularly the city car BYD F0, which […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 23:10:23 +0000
Tesla’s Model 3 is its most popular sedan, and now the automaker has added a highly coveted variant of the electric vehicle back to its online order configurator. The variant, the Model 3 Long Range, is now available again, after being discontinued last August due to high demand. Last week, Tesla reintroduced the Model 3 […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 18:15:42 +0000
When more affordable smartphones became a reality some years ago, they led to a complete revolution in the access to telecommunications and financial services sectors. Some of the major players in this revolution were very basic and affordable phones from some Chinese companies. Access to these phones enabled a large population on the African continent, […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 16:15:43 +0000
Sales of battery-electric vehicles continue to show steady progress in South Africa. Battery-electric vehicle sales breached the 500 units per year mark in South Africa for the first time ever in 2022. Last year, 502 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in South Africa, up from 218 in 2021. South Africa’s Automotive Business Council (NAAMSA) has […]
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 15:10:07 +0000
Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 28% in March 2023 compared to March 2022. There were 1,097,000 registrations, making it the second best month ever for plugin electric vehicles, only behind December 2022. In the end, plugins represented 16% share of the overall auto market (12% BEV share alone). This means that the global automotive […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 08 May 2023 17:55:42 +0000
Toyota’s Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric car could make a bigger impact on decarbonization than its sales figures suggest.
Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Mon, 08 May 2023 17:30:51 +0000
The Tesla Model Y was the the best selling model in Europe in Q1!! All powertrains included!!! Some 322,000 plugin vehicles were registered in March in Europe — which is +29% year over year (YoY). In fact, March was the second best month ever for plugin vehicle (PEV) registrations, only trailing December when the market […]