Inside EVs

The UK noted its best ever monthly sales of vehicles in March (at 562,337 new registrations). Besides the normal annual spike caused by plate changes, consumers were doing everything possible to avoid the new VED charges that shakedown petrol-using vehicles priced north of £40,000 (there is now a £310 annual …read more

Hyundai’s New Hydrogen SUV Could Have A Range Of 500 Miles It will make its debut at the winter olympics, appropriately enough. Alongside the Ioniq, the ix35, and others in the lineup, Hyundai has a long-term plan in place to bring even more efficient vehicles to market. A new dedicated… …read more

Set to debut from the winter olympics, Hyundai’s new hydrogen SUV could have a range of up to 500 miles. Alongside the Ioniq, the ix35, and others in the lineup, Hyundai has a long-term plan in place to bring even more efficient vehicles to market. A new dedicated EV platform …read more

You guessed it … Ben Sullins of Teslanomics is decoding the Model3Tracker.info data to gather an idea of what people in various countries are willing to pay for their upcoming Tesla Model 3. Model3Tracker is now up to 8,000 Model 3 reservation holders, so the data that Sullins regularly uses… …read more

Fastned happily announced a milestone on its road to profitability in the fast charging business for Europe this week. For the first time, the Dutch company was able to achieve operational break-even for the first two stations in March. So just 56 more to go! Now to be …read more

As we have explained before, even though the Model3Tracker.info website shows us only a small sampling of Tesla Model 3 reservation holders, it’s the only resource of its kind out there, and it paints an interesting picture of what people may be considering in regards to their Model 3, and… …read more

One of Tesla’s latest patents focuses on a topic that we had thought was already taken care of…safely charging batteries. Apparently, Tesla thinks charging can be done more safely with the use of a fault-detection apparatus. Here’s the brief from the patent filing (which contains a wicked run-on sentence): Methodology… …read more

UK’s tax policy – new Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) – is criticized by Mitsubishi as being incomprehensible. The Outlander PHEV is now charged with taxes like the Range Rover SDV8, a vehicle which has five times higher CO2 emission. Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, the most popular plug-in hybrid car in UK,… …read more

China’s torrid sales growth in the electric vehicle segment faced some hiccups in January and February thanks to some bureaucratic red tap that saw no plug-in eligible for subsidies for ~7 weeks while waiting on a new approved OEM/model list. Now with things are getting just on track, a return …read more

The CHAdeMO Association demonstrated at Ise City in Japan’s Mie prefecture, its new High Power Charging technology that will be available through the revised CHAdeMO standard (ver. 1.2), that was formally announced on March 24th, 2017. The key upgrade of CHAdeMO is officially increasing the maximum current from 125 A …read more