GM Joins Electric Vehicle Upswing In Expanding US Market
General Motors’ US electric vehicle sales more than doubled in the second quarter from the same period a year earlier, adding to evidence of a growing appetite among consumers for battery-powered cars and trucks. The Detroit carmaker said on Wednesday…
US Electric Vehicle Goals Will Require Up To $127B To Install 28M Chargers by 2030
There will be 30 million to 42 million electric vehicles on U.S. roads in 2030, requiring a rapid, widespread buildout of charging infrastructure that will be focused on homes and multi-family residencies, according to a new report from the National Renewable Energy…
VW In Talks To Adopt Tesla’s EV Charging Plug, But Toyota Is Taying Silent
Tesla has racked up a series of EV charging wins in recent weeks, with Ford, GM, Volvo, Polestar, and Rivian all announcing plans to adopt the company’s charging connectors for their vehicles. But there are still a number of notable holdouts — although that could shift…
Say Hello To The Fully Electric Volvo EX30 Small SUV
As a small SUV that does big Volvo things, our new fully electric Volvo EX30 is designed to be as safe as you’d expect from us. It is designed to have the smallest CO2 footprint of any Volvo car to…
Shifting To EV Fleets Would Save State, Local Governments Millions Of Dollars
Arizona governments could save almost $283 million over the next 10 years if roughly 20,000 gasoline-powered light-duty vehicles in their fleets that are due to be retired were replaced with electric vehicles, according to a recent report. The 38-page report by the…
BYD Picks Brazil For Its First Electric-Vehicle Hub Outside Asia
Chinese electric-vehicle juggernaut BYD Co. is joining a Latin American lithium rush in a bid to lock in more supplies of the metal that’s a key component in EV batteries. In Chile, the nation with the biggest reserves of lithium,…
Amazon Rolls Out Electric Vehicles In Germany
E-commerce giant Amazon will deploy its first European vans from U.S. electric vehicle maker Rivian in Germany over the coming weeks as part of long-term plans to electrify its transportation network. Amazon said 300 electric vans will hit the roads in the Munich, Berlin,…
The Pedestrian Hummer EV Goes Military
The original civilian Hummer went on sale in 1992 and traces its origins back to the military’s High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, or Humvee. While the everyday version was known as a gas-guzzling behemoth, the military Humvee handily, if not…
The Bitter Conclusion of Trump’s Failed Flirtation With Electric Vehicles
The Bitter Conclusion of Trump’s Failed Flirtation With Electric Vehicles “Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is incredible,” President Trump boasted in front of a gleaming white pickup parked on the South Lawn driveway in late September 2020. At a glance, the truck…
Autosilicon Releases The World’s First 14-Channel Battery Diagnosis IC For Electric Vehicles And Energy Storage Systems
Following the mass production of its ASIL-D certified Battery Management IC chipset in 2022, Autosilicon Inc. released the world’s first 14-channel Battery Diagnosis IC (BDIC) in March 2023, which can be directly applied to high-capacity battery cells for xEV (Electric…
