Inside EVs

The Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA) has become the first transit provider in North America to have an all-electric, 60-foot articulated electric bus in its fleet, supplied by BYD. It’s the production version of the prototype shown some two years ago, with a ~547 kWh battery and has an expected …read more

Tesla just recently opened its first two stores in South Korea in March. Store #1 is inside the Starfield Hanam, a shopping mall located in Gyeonggi Province, while store #2 is the one visited by Bjorn Nyland in this video. Video description: “I visited Gangnam district in Seoul to see …read more

Watching the comments section of any news story about an EV seems to have changed over the last few years. 5 years ago, most of the comments were mis-informed people or shills spouting off the usual anti-EV propaganda about them being fire hazards, or being worse for the environment than… …read more

BYD brought a whole set of commercial electric vehicles to the 2017 Advanced Clean Transportation Expo this year in Long Beach; from a terminal tractor, through a 60 ft. articulated bus and a forklift. Now, a new offering from the Chinese company has arrived – a long-range, Class 8, electric …read more

Coming in 2020, the first electric car from Skoda will be followed by four other EVs by 2025. Skoda introduced this week at Auto Shanghai the Vision E Concept to preview the brand’s green agenda set to kick off in 2019 with the plug-in hybrid Superb. Just about everyone assumed… …read more

TESLA FOUNDERS MARTIN EBERHARD AND MARC TARPENNING TALK ELECTRIC VEHICLES Put on the popcorn and curl up on the couch – this long and meaty talk with Tesla founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning (also watch below), delivered at Stanford last October, is well worth watching from start to finish. …read more

BMW has expanded its European Delivery Program at the Welt with the BMW i8, an experience which was previously was limited to just more conventional petrol models. It could be an interesting option to not only purchase the i8 (or an iPerformance model), but also combine the buy with a… …read more

The ever-growing award case for the Chevrolet Bolt expands even more with this newest addition to the showcase. Popular Mechanics has declared the Chevrolet Bolt its Car of the Year. The magazine calls 2017 the “year that automation and electric propulsion got affordable and fast,” due largely to the Chevy… …read more

Though Finland is home to only about 1,000 EVs, construction is underway on a 250-spot EV parking garage. Bjørn Nyland showed off another substantial structure in Oslo, Norway recently (~100 spots). As far as we were concerned, it was the largest EV parking facility we had ever seen or heard… …read more

Mahindra & Mahindra apparently have failed to succeed on the British market selling a crazy small, short range/designed for India EV (who knew that would happen?) and has subsequently ended sales of its e2o electric vehicles in UK with immediate effect. The main reason is (not surprisingly) because of exceptionally… …read more