Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:29:03 +0000
California has surpassed yet another milestone on its way to mainstream electric vehicle adoption. And while Tesla remains the pioneer in the sector and the primary contributor to mainstream EV adoption, increasing competition is also pushing more consumers to buy electric. EV sales made up 16 percent of new vehicle sales in California in 2022, […]
Credit to Author: Stuart Ungar| Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 04:50:15 +0000
I recently wrote a piece for CleanTechnica about my trusty Ocean Blue Nissan LEAF getting totaled. My wife and I found ourselves needing a new vehicle right away, so my thoughts about waiting a year or so for the new crop of EVs to come out was dashed. We had a number of options. There […]
Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:26:16 +0000
In 2021, the future of the Chevy Bolt was uncertain. It had started off as a car that had beat the $35,000 Tesla Model 3 to market, but for a variety of reasons (including being outsold by 10× by the Tesla Model 3, losing the $7,500 tax credit, no significant updates in 4 years and […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 04:49:53 +0000
A perfect storm for Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV sales has hit, but the sudden spike in sales is putting dealers in the driver’s seat. Some Background Chevy’s Bolt EV and Bolt EUV aren’t the best EVs around. Most EVs charge faster than they do, and many come in rear- and all-wheel drive configurations. […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:00:01 +0000
Domino’s is adding more than 800 Chevy Bolt EVs to its delivery fleet in the US to reduce emissions and help delivery people who don’t own a serviceable car.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:00:24 +0000
In another recent article, our friend Barry discussed the need for standards in battery longevity if consumers are going to adopt EVs. I agree that there needs to be not just a standard, but a good standard. I’d like to add some of my thoughts to the conversation and provide some ideas on how we […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 03:57:23 +0000
6% of US auto sales is up from EVs’ 2.2% of US auto sales in Q3 2020.
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 12:50:53 +0000
For Model Year 2022 (MY 2022), 17 electric vehicle (EV) models achieved 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) or higher. MPGe is a unit of measure used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to represent EV fuel economy in a common unit with gas-powered vehicles, where 33.7 kilowatt-hours of electricity are equal to the energy […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 03:40:07 +0000
We don’t have US sales data for all electric vehicle models, since automakers don’t break out sales of electric and non-electric versions of the same model (example: gas-powered Hyundai Kona sales and Hyundai Kona EV sales are combined in Hyundai’s sales reports). However, increasingly, automakers are rolling out standalone electric models (examples: Hyundai IONIQ 5, […]
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 03:09:37 +0000
The travel log of my trip from the Appalachians to Florida was quite different from my 3 day trip up. I again drove a 2015 BMW i3 REX with 71 miles of electric range. On the 3 day trip up to the Appalachians, I avoided using gas at all, going out of my way to find and use Level 2 chargers between the fast chargers. That is, until the last half hour to the mountain cabin