Volvo electric bus Enlarge Photo The mayors of 12 major cities from around the world have taken a landmark step to increase the use of zero-emission public transportation late last month. Mayors of London, Paris, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Quito, Vancouver, Mexico City, Milan...
ebee streelight charging station Enlarge Photo While President Trump has announced the U.S. will pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, the United States cannot formally exit the agreement until November 5, 2020. Despite the administration's stance and its many efforts to end U.S. acti...
Volvo electric bus Enlarge Photo The mayors of 12 major cities from around the world have taken a landmark step to increase the use of zero-emission public transportation late last month. Mayors of London, Paris, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Quito, Vancouver, Mexico City, Milan...
The BMW Group’s range of nine electrified vehicles boosted their sales by a total of 63.7% in the first ten months of 2017, with a total of 78,096 delivered to customers. In October, BMW i and iPerformance vehicles made up around 8% of total BMW sales in the USA , France, the UK and t...
Electric car maker Fisker has just announced a new patent on better batteries. The new patent is for a solid-state battery technology. The new type of battery promises more energy density than lithium-ion cells, as well as better cold temperature operation and the ability to charge mu...
While today battery electric vehicles available from the Volkswagen Group are a relatively small and unimpressive lot, within the next few years, that is due to significantly change. The company that helped bring diesel popularity down with its emission cheating scandal publicized in ...
Ford last week confirmed that it stopped production of its C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid—and will soon cease production of the conventional hybrid version of the hatchback. “Ford C-Max Energi production has ended,” Dan Jones, Ford's North America Car Communications Manager, told Green C...
John Voelcker Nov 14, 2017 Follow John Add to circle Terrafugia TF-X Enlarge Photo Today, we explain the reasoning behind our Best Car To Buy 2018 award in more detail, take bets on all-electric SUVs, explain how a group of U.S. governors embarrassed the fossil-fuel-promoting Trump Ad...
The Norwegian government has officially requested an extension of the zero VAT provision until 2020. Now it is a matter of negotiation between the government and the ESA as to when the exemption will end. According to Magnus Blaker, auto industry analyst for Norways’s Side3 News , “No...
As global leaders gathered at COP 23 in Bonn, 18 key leaders in their industry verticals, united in the Hydrogen Council coalition, came together to launch first ever globally quantified vision of the role of hydrogen, developed with support from McKinsey. In addition to being a key p...
Daimler’s next iteration of its long-running Citaro city bus will start production in all-electric form by the end of 2018. Last September Daimler celebrated the 50,000th Citaro to an Austrian capital transport company who ordered 59 city buses, naming it in the process the “most succ...