Inside EVs

Nick Heidfeld will be driving the car at Goodwood.

The Pininfarina Battista, an all-electric supercar made by the famed design house, will make its UK debut at the 77th Goodwood Members Meeting this week.
The car was first unveiled at the Geneva motor show and is the first full production car from …read more

Tease and tease and tease again.
Not long ago, Henrik Fisker took to Twitter with a teaser of its upcoming sub-$40,000, ~300-mile range all-electric SUV that’s designed to compete with the Tesla Model Y. The tweet mentioned that there would be another teaser soon, and it even specified a date. Fisker …read more

Temperature flexibility of next-generation batteries impress
Solid-state batteries are the real deal, although those promising batteries with greater performance and high energy density to conventional lithium-ion are not yet ready for series-production and automotive applications.
Surprising reinforcement in development comes from Japanese spark plugs manufacturer NGK SPARK PLUG CO., which developed solid-state …read more

Study proves battery-electric trucks’ advantages over diesel, but tech expert is unimpressed.
A recent study by Transport and Environment compares overall energy consumption of all-electric haulers like the Tesla Semi versus today’s diesel trucks. In addition, it works to compare the two powertrains in terms of their environmental impacts. All things …read more

ABB FIA Formula E is looking to host a race in Shanghai in the 2019/20 season, although all possibilities regarding events in the China region are currently “50/50”, says series boss Alejandro Agag.

FE made its return to mainland China with last weekend’s Sanya race, which took place three and half …read more

Let them drive it and they will buy it.
The word on the streets is that Tesla doesn’t advertise. However, this is only true in the traditional sense of the word. Tesla promotes its vehicles in many ways, primarily on social media. Sadly, this means that there are many people out …read more

Rumors say it will do 310 miles between charges.

Mercedes has yet to reveal the new GLB, but it looks like a fully electric version is not that far behind judging by these new spy shots. How do we know it’s an EV? Aside from the obvious “electric” sticker on the …read more

BYD intends to be the largest electric bus manufacturer in North America
Chinese BYD (Build Your Dreams) opened its electric bus manufacturing plant in Lancaster, California in 2013 and delivered its first vehicle in 2014. Now, after six years, the company produced its 300th electric bus (for more than 50 municipal, …read more

Battery capacity needs to go up
Mercedes-Benz just received an order for 16 all-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses from Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH) from Hamburg, Germany.
Those new vehicles will be equipped with new maximum capacity battery packs of 292 kWh instead of 243 kWh, which results in a range of 170 km (106 …read more

It’s coming for 2021 and it could look something like this.

Ford just announced its new Escape for 2020, but the launch event in Amsterdam contained additional information that most decidedly has our interest. The Blue Oval started touting an all-electric Mustang-based crossover vehicle over a year ago, but nestled in …read more