A hydrogen car is on display at the Canadian Hydrogen Convention in Edmonton in April 2022. Experts say they expect hydrogen vehicles to be on the road in the next decades along with electric vehicles.
A new survey of electric vehicle (EV) drivers in the United Kingdom published this week by Zap-Map, the UK’s leading app and digital platform for EV drivers, has discovered the increasing number of rapid and ultra-rapid chargers are being put to good use by British EV drivers.
The market share of electric vehicles around the world increased 41 times in the last 10 years and reached 8.3%. Last year, electric vehicle sales reached 6.75 million, up 108% from earlier.
If you were to switch from your internal combustion engined car to an electric vehicle, what would be an acceptable amount of range? Would 400 kms be enough? How about 600 kms? Mercedes-Benz has just announced a world-beating efficiency in real-world driving of 1,000 kms (621 miles) on a single charge by its one-off Vision EQXX concept car.
German automaker Porsche has announced that it is planning on building its own network of electric vehicle charging stations. The company said that to achieve this ambitious goal, Porsche is investing in premium charging stations together with partners — and additionally in its own charging infrastructure.
The Swedish carmaker has collaborated with Starbucks and ChargePoint in putting up electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the coffee company’s US stores. That means, Volvo EV owners in the United States will have a place to relax while their cars are recharging.
Envision’s new cell factory is part of Mercedes’ $1 billion investment to start EV production in the U.S.
The Berlin plant, when fully operational, will have a production capacity to make 500,000 vehicles a year and will initially make Model Y compact crossover vehicles.
London-based ev.energy, which provides software to manage electric vehicle (EV) charging, has raised a further £295,000 in funding to scale its virtual power plant (VPP) that aims to reduce the strain on the UK’s power grid during peak times.