You know what they say about cars: once you go self-driving, you never go back.Or at least that’s my experience after recently spending some time behind the wheel of the 2018 Nissan Leaf. Getting back into my own older car and having to work the steering and pedals myself now seems laborious. First-world problems, right?The
My experience on Day 1 with a PowerBanx home battery showed that it’s perfectly possible to run a house with using any grid electricity, i.e. for free. However, my experiences on Day 2 and Day 3 showed that it was quite hard to also charge an electric car for free
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).
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.
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
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
There’s more disruption brewing for the mobility industry as electric vehicles (EVs) continue to surge ahead in top gear.
Companies from the energy, transport and technology sectors have joined forces to explore how electric vehicles (EVs) can facilitate energy storage solutions that link up to onsite renewable installations and building energy management systems (BEMS) on office buildings.
With almost all of the major car manufacturers (and Harley Davidson) announcing that they are investing in new EV development, the future of transportation has officially been claimed by electric vehicles.