Tag: Electric vehicles

September 1, 2020

Tesla Inc. plans to sell as much as $5 billion of shares, capitalizing on its high-flying price and on a recent stock split that made it more accessible to individual investors. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based carmaker will sell the shares […]

July 17, 2020

Tesla Inc. kept growing in China last month, with registrations of its electric vehicles jumping to a record in the world’s largest market as the coronavirus outbreak receded. In June, 14,976 China-built Teslas were registered in the country, according to […]

July 7, 2020

The market gloom over the metals that will power the cars of the future is starting to lift. Supply overhangs and then the coronavirus pandemic had crushed short-term prospects for the minerals used to make rechargeable batteries. But new government […]

February 25, 2020

In the study led by Assistant Professor Runsen Zhang at Hiroshima University, researchers combined economic and transport models and data from 17 regions around the world to produce six scenarios for transportation into the year 2100. As many governments plan […]

February 11, 2020

Daimler AG reported a net loss and a 1% increase in revenue in the fourth quarter as sales of cars and vans increased, while truck sales globally fell 16%. The mounting costs of shifting to electric vehicles and a large […]

January 24, 2020

Volkswagen AG CEO Herbert Diess is preparing to muscle Elon Musk out of the electric-car lead. While Tesla Inc. is paving the way in sustainable mobility, the world’s biggest automaker is buying software companies and ramping up investments in electric […]

December 18, 2019

For many Americans, New Year’s Day means a new set of resolutions, a slight headache, and a refreshing tabula rasa. At Tesla, the electric vehicle maker, January 1, 2020 will mark something else: the official end of its vehicles’ eligibility […]

September 30, 2019

Electric bus use is growing, with nearly half of municipal buses on the road globally expected to be electric by 2025 and the size of the U.S. electric bus market projected to reach $1.95 billion by 2024. With all this […]

September 17, 2019

When United Automobile Workers members walked off the job at 33 General Motors sites around the US on Sunday morning, perhaps the most … striking detail was that they only numbered 46,000. The last time the UAW’s GM workers went […]

August 5, 2019

ANY ARGUMENT ABOUT the future of the electric vehicle market is likely to include one statistic: In the US, battery-powered cars make up fewer than 2 percent of new vehicle sales. That desultory number, though slowly increasing, makes clear that, […]

July 23, 2019

Battery-electric medium-duty trucks may have a bright future due to their potential to reduce operational costs and improve sustainability. But currently, the availability of these trucks is limited as testing continues. UPS Inc. would like to purchase more electric vehicles, […]

July 18, 2019

Eben Weiss, the Bike Snob, is an unexpected source for this proposal. Everybody is writing articles these days about how self-driving cars are years away, or that sales of electric cars are running out of gas. But there is a […]

June 21, 2019

When André Borschberg started flying as a 15 year old, he didn’t worry about how much fuel he had to burn to get and stay aloft. These days, it’s pretty much all he thinks about. It has been three years […]

May 2, 2019

Now how about some incentives to get people out of cars? That’s former astronaut Marc Garneau, now Canada’s Minister of Transport, with Member of Parliament Deb Schulte pretending to fill up an electric car, as if you stand beside an […]

April 25, 2019

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The beginning of the end is here for the internal-combustion truck engine, said Roger Nielsen, CEO of Daimler Trucks North America, the largest truck manufacturer on the continent. And the replacement for diesel-run trucks will be […]

April 12, 2019

The electric quadracycle is clad in a composite made from hemp and cashews. The air quality is really bad in cities like London and the traffic is really slow. Meanwhile, with the growth of online shopping, there are more and […]

March 5, 2019

IT WASN’T SO long ago that if you had a family to haul hither and thither, you got a minivan. In 2000, Americans bought 1.25 million of the things. By 2007, though, that number had dropped to 800,000, and it […]

March 4, 2019

Fleet purchasing may turn out to be critical to electrification. There’s little doubt that corporate support for renewables has served as an important backstop against political obstructionism, and we may soon start to see a similar dynamic when it comes […]

March 1, 2019

It was a while coming, but this could be a pretty big deal for your average buyer. Ever since Tesla started talking about the Model 3, electric car nerds (and just about everyone else too) has been talking about its […]

February 22, 2019

Watching the Hyundai pull into the parking spot, I cringe a bit with the stress that strikes when I feel like I’m holding other people up. The car is wiggling backward and forward, backward and forward, trying to fit into […]