The future's here, and it's shaping up to be a wild ride!
All-electric cars started being produced by manufacturers in the late 90s, but it has only been in the past decade where their production and sale have really started to ramp up – with some countries (like Norway) seeing over 50% market share of electric vehicles. However other country’s market shares are lower than 1%, and fossil-fuel powered cars still account for the vast majority of sales Worldwide.
So why the hype surrounding electric cars? Well, thankfully their popularity is growing, and the past few years has seen a definite uptick in interest, production and sales of electric cars.
You may know that Norway is an oil-rich country within the European continent. But did you know that as a percentage of its population, Norway has 4x the green car sales of California, and in March 2018, green cars accounted for 55.8% of all new registrations? And throughout Europe, over one million plug-in cars have … Read more
Since we have all grown up around gasoline-powered cars, the general way that they work (i.e. gasoline is burnt in an internal combustion engine, which provides the necessary power to drive the vehicle forward) is fairly well understood. However electric cars are much newer and less mainstream, and so we wanted to take an in-depth … Read more
For the past few years, there’s been more and more rumours that some of the big tech firms are working on self-driving cars, which will predominantly be plug-in electrics. Some companies – such as Apple and Dyson – have only given limited information about their programmes. Others – like Google – are fairly open about … Read more