Inside EVs

Renault didn’t show any of the seasonal slowdown experience found elsewhere in Europe. In fact the French automaker noted one of its best months ever for EV sales in February. In total, more than 3,100 electric cars were sold (excluding the Twizy), which was 56% more than year ago. Compared alongside… …read more

For the third time in 5 days, the standing 1/4 mile record for the Tesla Model S P100D has been broken (watch previous records here, and here). The “old” record was a time of 10.638, the new record blew that out of the water at 10.444 @ 124.21 mph –… …read more

“By market value at least, the scrappy Silicon Valley upstart has become one of America’s Big Three.” States Bloomberg in a recent article comparing the value of several American automakers. Tesla’s market value has soared of late and it’s likely to rise even higher when the Model 3 launches later… …read more

The most popular plug-in electric vehicle sold in UK – the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, has now begun to drive up Mitsubishi’s used sales as older models are being turned back in to the automaker. In January and February, more than 320 were sold (45% of all pre-owned Mitsubishi), increasing Mitsu’s used… …read more

NIO EP9 OWNS THE NURBURGRING IN FULL ONBOARD VIDEO OF RECORD EV LAP Watch the electric hypercar whine its way to a 7:05 record. Last November we were introduced to the Nio EP9 in a rather spectacular way when it lapped the Nurburgring in just over seven minutes. That lap… …read more

NIO EP9 OWNS THE NURBURGRING IN FULL ONBOARD VIDEO OF RECORD EV LAP Watch the electric hypercar whine its way to a 7:05 record. Last November we were introduced to the Nio EP9 in a rather spectacular way when it lapped the Nurburgring in just over seven minutes. That lap… …read more

Next week will be a busy one for Elon Musk and his futuristic adventures. SpaceX is scheduled to conduct its next text flight of the Falcon 9 rocket on March 29th, and now we learn that Tesla is going to finally release the 8.1 version of its electric vehicle software… …read more

About a month ago, Tesla started delivering the first Model S vehicles in Taiwan. Now, the automaker has unveiled its Model X in the country, and sales are set to begin. The Model S starts at NT$3.18 million (~$101,000 U.S.), and a base Model X in the country will set you… …read more

Fully Charged’s recent expedition to Australia came across the first all-electric AND fully autonomous vehicle in the country – the RAC Intellibus (which by the way is French, as NAVYA was bought by RAC). Although the episode begins with Sundrop Farm’s tomatoes, don’t be confused, it’s still about EVs. The RAC Intellibus… …read more

What happens when you put titanium dioxide coated vinyl up on a billboard? Apparently, you can capture nitrogen dioxide (NOx) floating around and make the air cleaner. Toyota is going to do just that as a way to promote the Mirai Fuel Cell in the Los Angeles and San Francisco…. …read more