Category: "Electric Vehicles & EV Charging"
New Energy Narrative posts about electric vehicles and EV charging.
- Pulitzer Prize winning auto columnist, Dan Neil: We are living through the S-curve of EV adoption and is quite clear that ICE vehicles are going the way of the flip phone
- Electric skateboards startup Boosted has raised US $60 million to fund its ambition towards becoming a leader in the “light electric vehicles” sector
- Electrify America’s second round of electric-car charging installations, set to electrify three new Californian regions, has won approval from the California Air Resources Board
- Lightyear, an EV startup spawned from a solar car race challenge, will partner with Dutch-based car leasing service LeasePlan to release the first consumer solar-based vehicle by 2020
- China’s Great Wall Motors, which has a lithium offtake deal with Australia’s Pilbara Minerals, just debuted an electric car with 200 miles of range that is set to sell for only US $8,680
- Elon Musk has indicated that he may take Ohio Governor John Kasich up on his suggestion that Tesla buy GM’s soon-to-be-shuttered auto assembly plant in Lordstown
- Luxury car rivals Daimler and BMW are being forced to consider teaming up on electric vehicles and self-driving cars because they’ve realized they can’t compete with Tesla on their own
- Colton Devries of The Hill believes that electric vehicle tax credits in the U.S. benefit the elites far more than they benefit everyday auto buyers
- Tesla is dominating sales in the electric car category in Canada, with what is now a stable 2% market share
- New EU emissions-cutting deal, aimed at reducing CO2 from vehicles by 37.5% by 2030, unless altered, will literally force automakers to sell more electric vehicles in Europe
