Renault recently reached a milestone of 100,000 ZOEs produced at the Flins facility in France. Renault ZOE, with its 41 kWh battery and now with an 80 kW electric motor, is one of the best selling electric cars in Europe (it was the best selling in 2015, 2016 and 2017).
Surging solar generation this summer could send legacy, inflexible generators off the grid as National Grid expects yet another period of supply and demand travails.
The traditional automotive industry had been reluctant to embrace the electricity revolution. But Porsche’s recent announcement that it would be doubling its investment in electric vehicles (EVs) to €6 billion by 2022 can be seen as a wakeup call. The battery vehicles are coming. And Porsche is not the only one. Other automotive companies are
“Filling” stations for electric cars are set to be built in the north-east of England.
SolarCoin is a cryptocurrency created in 2014 to encourage solar energy generation for commercial solar producers and individuals with solar panels installed.
Porsche has been making plug-in hybrids for a while now, but it has been resisting going fully electric for a long time.We have seen a shift from this since the development of the Mission E and they even said that they plan for 50% of their production to be electric within 6 years – one
Coal has been getting the squeeze for years now, but the plunging cost of renewable energy is already starting to give natural gas a run for its money. The implications for the incumbent fossil fuel industry are dire.“Coal and gas are facing a mounting threat to their position in the world’s electricity generation mix, as
What is it? Welcome to the Nissan Leaf, take two. Nissan bravely went out on a limb with the first generation Leaf, introduced in 2010, as the world’s first mass produced electric family car. Now the stage is set for this second generation Leaf and, as expected, it’s a significant step up in terms of
Spectacular falls in the cost of wind, solar and battery technology mean that clean energy is increasingly pushing coal and gas out of the world’s electricity generation mix in a “chilling” development for the future of fossil fuel power generation.
There’s more disruption brewing for the mobility industry as electric vehicles (EVs) continue to surge ahead in top gear.