The future's here, and it's shaping up to be a wild ride!
I used to write a weekly news round-up each week on the old site. I have since stopped doing this, but the below sums up all the EVSE car charging-related news from October 2018 to September 2019: Monday 9th September: Electrify America have partnered with Porsche to roll out their 800-volt rapid DC EVSE car charging network, allowing for … Read more
I used to write a weekly news round-up each week on the old site. I have since stopped doing this, but the below sums up all the Hydrogen-related news from October 2018 to September 2019: Thursday 26th September: Autoblog: ‘Toyota Mirai (hydrogen fuel cell car) second generation will break cover in 2020’. (Original news from 2019) Thursday 26th September: Autoblog: … Read more
In addition to their innovative cars, a big advantage with Tesla is access to their electric car supercharger network. Right now, Tesla have 1,441 supercharger stations around the World – with 12,888 actual superchargers. Their fairly exclusive charging network allows Tesla owners to easily charge up their car, instead of battling with all other EV … Read more
Hydrogen based vehicles seem to only be a recent development, with just four mainstream hydrogen cars available from the past few years. However their existence has been around since the 19th century, as this article covers. If you’re only interested in recent developments though, feel free to click “Modern developments” below! Historical Times: 1802 to … Read more
When looking at new (and used) car prices, you will probably have noticed that electric cars are more expensive than an equivalent gasoline car: sometimes much more expensive. A good example of this is the Hyundai Kona SE, with the gas version retailing at £18,200.00 in the UK ($19,990 in America), whilst the Kona Electric … Read more
Electric car batteries can last for a decade or more before their efficiency starts to falter, but EV adoption has only really ramped up in the past 5+ years. So this poses the question of what will happen to the potential flood of unwanted, half-tonne battery packs in old electric cars. The problem The battery … Read more
Electric cars have some brilliant features, lower maintenance costs, lower running costs and are much better for the environment than gasoline-powered cars. It’s no wonder that they have, therefore, piqued the public’s interest and more people than ever are interested in buying them. Unfortunately the upfront cost of an EV is still quite high: prohibitively … Read more
The “vroom” sound that gasoline powered cars make when you put your foot down is familiar to us all, but despite electric cars becoming increasingly popular, the majority of the public have not yet driven one. So what are they like to drive? Electric cars feel very responsive when accelerating and braking, whilst delivering a … Read more
The massive 300-550 kg battery packs that go into electric cars are probably the most important component by far, just like the importance of an internal combustion engine to a traditional car. However, the journey that these lithium-ion batteries make when being produced is a very interesting one: from multiple (sometimes unsafe) mines in far-off … Read more
As we seen in our ‘how do electric cars work?’ article, EVs work completely differently to conventional, fossil-fuel powered cars. They are also starting to rise up and disrupt the car market like never before. They’re definitely interesting, so what are the advantages and disadvantages of electric cars? (15) Advantages 1. Zero tailpipe emissions Electric cars are … Read more