Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:45:41 +0000
This article is part of a multi-part series. You can find Part 1 here. Let’s make one thing clear from the beginning: The Bolt EUV is not an off-road machine. Not only does it lack serious ground clearance, 4-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, and skid plates, but it’s also a unibody (even if it’s a very […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:15:35 +0000
This article is part of a multi-part series. You can find Part 1 here. It’s one thing to take a road trip, but just like any vehicle, you lose a lot of range with speed in an EV. Texas highways are already tough, with speed limits of 80 in the western rural parts of the […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:45:23 +0000
This article is part of a multi-part series. You can find Part 1 here. In Part 1, I covered home charging installation, which went well despite me requesting something unusual. Now, I’m going to cover the other side of the charging coin by telling the tale of a road trip across Texas, which mostly relied […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:45:33 +0000
About a month ago, I shared my experiences from the first month of ownership of my Bolt EUV. I thought I had given it a pretty good test, but I managed to test several important aspects of Bolt EUV ownership to much greater extremes since then. Most people wouldn’t do all of the things I’ve […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:30:53 +0000
We are in the last days of the CleanTechnica Car of the Year election. When I heard that Ford was going to create a battery-electric F-150, I thought it shifted the EV world. A day later I heard Rachel Maddow, in her own unique way, make about the same argument. What happens to the opinion […]
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:36:00 +0000
We were totally excited on October 22, 2019 when we drove our Tesla Model 3 Long Range away from the Tesla Salt Lake City Delivery Center. We’ve just passed our 3 year anniversary! Our odometer as I write this reads 80,821 miles. I wanted to determine how much battery degradation had occurred over that time […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:00:50 +0000
We’re on to the next round of our Ultimate EV Bracket Battle, and this is the best battle yet. It’s the best selling electric SUV in the United States versus the second best selling electric SUV in the United States! That’s the Tesla Model Y versus the Ford Mustang Mach-E. Now, when we say these […]
Credit to Author: Vijay Govindan| Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:01:53 +0000
SunPower came by at the end of September and added 21 panels to my south-facing roof. This is only possible since SunPower understands the previous installation and knows what steps to take to upgrade the system. You can upgrade your solar in steps, as you see how your bill changes. I estimate the roof can […]
Credit to Author: Jacek Fior| Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:25:00 +0000
What’s the longest you have driven in one go? How about in an electric car? Our team hit their record distance returning from the Balkan experience during our annual EV quest across Europe. Not that they planned it that way, but in the end, it was a thrilling adventure. We left off when the Kona […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 03:56:59 +0000
First, a comment for our American readers. What many American readers don’t realize when reading reviews by Europeans about European fully electric cars is the big difference between European ICE vehicles and American ICE vehicles. In Europe, most drivers, especially those from smaller cars, will only have experience with manual transmissions. When switching from manual […]