Hilton HollowayAutocarSeptember 28th, 2020 As well as detailing the energy and CO2 produced in the manufacture of the 2 compared with a petrol-engined Volvo XC40, Polestar said it is planning to reveal more about the wider environmental impact of building electric vehicles. Company boss Thomas Ingenlath said: “Car manufacturers have not been clear in the past with consumers on the environmental…
California residents experienced the first intentional, rolling blackouts in the state in 19 years last week. Millions of families were left without power to cool their homes amidst a heatwave that covered much of the state and region, and as many as 3.3 million homes and businesses could face additional rolling blackouts as the state remains vulnerable to future spikes…
Anjani TrivediBloombergJuly 30, 2020 Would you still buy an electric car if you knew you wouldn’t be able to resell it in the future? That’s the latest hurdle potential buyers are contending with, and it’s bound to become a big driver of demand. The expenses of owning an electric vehicle have always stood in the way of mass adoption, even in China, which…
A consortium of states has pledged to ban all diesel trucks by 2050, according to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) released on July 15, 2020. The states, which include California, Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania and 11 others, have also set the interim goal of cutting the number of diesel trucks sold by 30 percent by 2030. The ban would impact…
David IaconangeloE&E News EnergywireJuly 8th, 2020 The grid may still be too coal-heavy in some parts of the United States for electric vehicles to be a better option for local air quality than gas cars, according to an analysis published yesterday by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University. In regions like the Midwest and Southeast, battery electric…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday a 500-page plan that would, among other things, ban traditional vehicles from U.S. roads by requiring that 100% of vehicles be “zero-emission vehicles” by 2035. This policy proposal is the continuation of a decades-old effort by some in Congress to promote one vehicle type – electric vehicles (EVs) – over all others. But are…
Christopher Rauwald and Bruce EinhornBloombergMay 26th, 2020 At a factory near Germany’s border with the Czech Republic, Volkswagen AG’s ambitious strategy to become the global leader in electric vehicles is coming up against the reality of manufacturing during a pandemic. The Zwickau assembly lines, which produce the soon-to-be released ID.3 electric hatchback, are the centerpiece of a plan by the world’s…
David BoothDrivingMay 15th, 2020 It wasn’t a banner year for electric vehicles in 2019. After a six-year run typified by near exponential growth — EVs averaged an incredible 60 per cent year-over-year increase from 2012 to 2018 — worldwide sales of plug-in vehicles have stagnated. Oh, pretty much any other segment in the auto business would have gladly welcomed 2019’s…
David IaconangeloE&E NewsMay 7th, 2020 The economic downturn is stirring a debate about how well President Obama’s stimulus package worked more than a decade ago — and whether the federal government should deliver a large infusion of cash for clean energy again. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed in 2009, offered about $90 billion for clean energy, including…
Kathiann KowalskiMahoning MattersApril 14th, 2020 COLUMBUS — A set of bills aimed at promoting electric vehicles in Ohio are on hold as lawmakers grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. Ohio’s legislature has not been friendly to clean energy in recent years. Those efforts led first to a freeze and then last year’s cut of the state’s renewable energy and energy efficiency standards. Electric vehicle measures might…