The future's here, and it's shaping up to be a wild ride!
If you’ve owned an electric car even for just a short time, you are likely now quite used to the idea of getting back from work, plugging the car in to charge and then leaving it overnight. If you are still using your car’s factory-issued type-1 charging solution, then this is likely exactly your routine. … Read more
When you’re buying a used Nissan Leaf, it’s easy to get so distracted by the “big questions” of an EV like that, such as current battery capacity, range, the state of the interior and exterior, that you miss other more subtle yet crucial things. On your Nissan Leaf, there is an absolutely critical spot that’s … Read more
Read just about anything on an internal combustion engine and one fact will emerge common to all of those articles and other materials — the engine is a mass of individual moving parts all working together toward the goal of giving power to propel an automobile forward. The key phrase here is the “mass of … Read more
For quite a number of years now, the main fear behind making the switch from conventional internal combustion engines to electric cars has been centered on a single issue: range anxiety. The average gasoline car can get about 400 miles from a single tank of gas. As things stand, 400 miles on a single charge … Read more
Having a spare tire located somewhere within your car — often in a spare tire recess within the car’s trunk — is a kind of safety net against the nightmare scenario of a blowout resulting in the need for you to change a tire. The issue of spare tires has long plagued the discussions and … Read more
Arguably the biggest change of all when it comes to the electrification of modern passenger cars is the fueling. No longer do we “fill up” our cars at the pumps, and no longer are we forced to rely on a network of public stations to provide us with our fuel. Electric vehicles provide a new … Read more
Regenerative braking has been one of the most interesting and talked about technologies in the world of electric vehicles. Traditional friction brakes are very wasteful because all of the excess energy that is transferred outward from friction (mostly heat) is just completely wasted. Regenerative braking allowed that energy to be captured and used to prolong … Read more
Certain companies in the world garner a lot of attention for their unique hiring practices. From famous interview questions, to personal interventions from the founder and/or CEO and unusual seemingly quirky demands that employers have of prospective candidates, the world of recruitment is certainly a diverse and interesting one. In today’s blog, we are looking … Read more
Champions of electric cars frequently point to the superiority of EVs when it comes to overall reliability and maintenance costs. While an electric car still costs quite a lot more than a regular internal combustion engine model, the fact that is has so few moving parts means overall there is less wear and tear and … Read more
Back in 2015 at a Tesla stockholders’ meeting, animal rights pressure group PETA started lobbying Tesla to make their cars “vegan” by ridding them of all animal-based leather in the car’s interior. At the time, the stockholders voted against this proposition, but in the subsequent few years, discussions continued and in 2017 and 2019 the … Read more