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.
A lot of people are interested in getting an electric car like a Nissan Leaf because they understand that an EV will bring numerous benefits that regular internal combustion cars lack. For instance, some are gleeful at the prospect of never having to visit gas stations again, or having to worry about gas prices. Being … Read more
As an electric car driver, have you ever been “ICEd”? In the automotive world, the acronym ICE is used to refer to internal combustion engines, and now this verb “to ICE” refers to the practice of drivers parking their ICE cars in spaces that come with an EV charger and are therefore really intended for … Read more
One of the most exciting things about Tesla upgrading to Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode over the Enhanced Autopilot was the ways in which it enriched the vehicle visualizations that appear either on your main touchscreen and/or on the instrument cluster depending on which model you’re driving. In particular, it was the release of FSD Beta … Read more
Tesla owners are doubly lucky in that they typically drive cars with a longer single-charge range than most other EVs out there, but also because they have access to the Tesla Supercharger network, something not yet available to all EVs — although that development is supposedly on the way. Currently, in the US, there are … Read more
The path to more widespread adoption of EVs is fraught with many daunting challenges. Right now, OEMs are largely living up to that challenge, pumping out new EV designs and models at an eye-watering pace. We’ll have no shortage of choice, it seems, if and when the day comes that battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are … Read more
One of the features people tend to love about Tesla cars is their huge central touchscreen. Of course, it’s far from just a tool for navigation and a way to connect to things like Apple CarPlay, the Tesla Screen is also the center of their “Caraoke” in-car karaoke system, as well as a place to … Read more
What’s one of the most noticeable things about any Tesla model? For a lot of people, it’s the enormous big touchscreen that dominates the landscape of the front seating area. On the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, you’ll find a 15-inch horizontally mounted touchscreen unit, and on the Model X and Model S cars, … Read more
Some Nissan Leaf drivers have recently been complaining about an interesting problem they’re having with the car. The interesting part is that they’re unhappy about something the car is doing that it is supposed to do. Nothing is broken or defective, and for some, that’s the issue. What we’re talking about here is a key … Read more
Until the Tesla Model 3 was released, Nissan held the crown for the best-selling fully electric car: the Nissan Leaf. It offered a reasonable all-electric range without a premium price tag, resulting in it being popular amongst eco-conscious drivers. But Nissan have now scrapped the Leaf (sort of), and they are instead rolling out their … Read more
Countless people around the world are now carefully considering how and when they might make “the big switch” and move over to an electric car. With governments around the world already putting in place measures that will curb the sales of new gasoline cars between 2030 and 2040, OEMs are stepping up EV design and … Read more