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Mahindra Racing boss Dilbagh Gill says his team “didn’t know how to win a championship” in Formula E’s fourth season, where its title bid was thwarted by several issues.
The Indian manufacturer led the 2017/18 teams’ championship after Felix Rosenqvist won the second race in Hong Kong and took victory at …read more
Read moreHow about another record-breaking month?
October 2018 will mark the 37th month of consecutive year-over-year monthly sales gains for plug-in vehicles.
Each month InsideEVs tracks all the plug-in EV sales/deliveries for the United States by automaker. The 2018 calendar year has been the most fascinating thus far in the history of the …read more
Tesla is now #1 even in the automotive group rankings.
According to the latest comparison released by the EV Sales Blog, Tesla becomes the biggest manufacturer of electric cars among all automotive groups (even counting PHEVs). That’s an improvement compared to second place two months ago.
The changes concern BYD too, which …read more
Ford EVs on the Volkswagen MEB platform?
Volkswagen Group and Ford could form a development and production alliance that would strengthen the competitiveness of both manufacturers, at least in certain market segments.
Media speculates that besides areas like light commercial vehicles (under consideration at least since June), VW and Ford could partner …read more
Take a walkaround of the upcoming BMW iX3 in these latest spy shots.
These latest spy shots of the upcoming pure electric BMW iX3, that once-gaping grilled is now more properly closed off as it should be. As our spy photographer tells us, this time we see that development is moving …read more
Electric cars will change the landscape
Jaguar partnered with London architecture practice Barr Gazetas to try to imagine how electric cars could transform cities in the not too distant future.
The fruit of the partnership is four concept urban plans (see them below) named ‘Today’, ‘Tomorrow’, ‘Electric City’ and ‘Electric Future’.
In general, …read more
480 kWh battery for long-range service.
The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System ordered six 40-foot (12.2 m), zero-emission, battery-electric New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE transit buses.
The agency opts for the long-range versions with 480 kWh batteries (New Flyer offers up to 600 kWh), so the buses will be able to replace diesel …read more
Panasonic invested $1.6 billion into the Gigafactory
The latest investment in the Tesla Gigafactory production lines highly affected Panasonic’s financial results in the third quarter.
Despite overall revenues slightly increasing, the operating profit decreased by 15% to 95.2 billion JPY ($840 million) and net profits decreased by 20% to 56.2 billion JPY …read more
Tesla was registering Model 3 VINs at a rate of 15,000 a week.
The number of Tesla Model 3 VINs registered almost hit 180,000 (179,851) a few days ago and as it turns out, 61,943 fall on October alone. That’s more than in the first 11 months of production.
The pace of …read more
CATL already delivered 11.7 GWh in the first three quarters of 2018.
According to news from China, Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL) – one of the leading lithium-ion battery manufacturer – delivered in the first nine months some 11.7 GWh of battery cells, which is over 40% of the total of …read more