News from Inside EVs blog.
Scooters with swappable battery packs are spreading across the world.
Dutch manufacturer Etergo just got a significant boost of €10 million in funding (about $11.4 million) to put its electric bike, the AppScooter, into production. That’s in addition to the €5 million (about $5.7 million) from crowdfunding earlier this year. With …read more
Read moreNovember was a record month with over 14,000 sales
From time to time, we’ve been asked about separate sales reports for plug-in hybrid and all-electric cars and last month provided us with a perfect opportunity to look into PHEVs more deeply as more than 14,000 were sold.
The split between PHEVs and …read more
TUNNEL VISION: CAN ELON MUSK’S ‘BORING’ PLAN SUCCEED?
Elon Musk is a doer. While most people see problems and complain about them, Elon sees a problem and starts a company to solve it. Everyone hates horrendous traffic – what if we could cruise smoothly underneath it? The Boring Company aims to …read more
More electric SUVs coming in China.
Hongqi, the premium car brand owned by FAW Group, officially put its first all-electric SUV dubbed E-HS3 into mass production on December 27. The model has been unveiled at the Auto China 2018 in April and is about to hit the market next year.
Tesla Model 3 notes issues in cold weather
This winter – as there have been well over 100,000 Tesla Model 3 delivered – more reports on issues in cold weather appear.
Some concerns are door handles, frameless windows and the charge port.
In the case of charge port, it turns out that the …read more
BEV sales almost doubled, while PHEVs decreased 14%
November 2018 was the third best month of plug-in electric car sales in Europe, which gives us hope for a new all-time record in December.
In total, some 37,591 plug-in cars were sold, which is 31% more thana year ago at 3.2% market share.
Because …read more
Robocar does quite well on the straights…
Roborace is the Formula E’s sister series, the world’s first competition for self-driving cars. Recently, the development team took one of the prototypes for a top speed test.
As it turns out, the Robocar was able to achieve 299.60 km/h (187.41 miles). Not bad, but …read more
Tesla did not disappoint in consumers’ trust rankings.
According to the latest survey about consumers trust in top tech companies, Tesla is in pretty solid shape with lack of trust from just 1% of consumers.
The worst score is 40% (Facebook), followed by Twitter and Amazon (both 8%).
“According to a December survey …read more
Small, light and portable, but still packing a 240-volt punch
We recently posted our Ultimate Buyers Guide to Level 2 Chargers, that included our Top 5 picks for wall-mounted, medium power (30-amps to 40-amps) level 2 charging stations. We’re now turning our attention to lower-powered, portable Level 2 EVSE units, and …read more
SCiB batteries are more than 10 years on the market since launch in March 2008
Toshiba announced that the SCiB rechargeable battery business will be transferred from Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation (TISS) directly to Toshiba by absorption-type company splits. As a result, it will become an independent business unit …read more