September 2022

“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.” That saying can apply to many things: A martial artist throwing a punch, a baseball player taking a home-run swing, or a golfer hitting a ball. When it comes to a transition to electric mobility, is it the right strategy? With Volkswagen having its first new AG CEO take

Polestar’s upcoming Polestar 6 convertible opened preorders earlier this month, and the vehicle was able to sell out in under a week. The Polestar 6 is Polestar’s upcoming convertible, and it opened for preorders earlier this month, only for the vehicle to sell out in less than a week. The expected $200,000 price tag was

Tesla cars will be smarter than humans by 2033, according to a new study by car and van leasing company, Vanarama. Vanarama performed an analysis of the processing power of Tesla’s microchips to forecast how many years it will take to be on par with the human brain. The study looked into the processing power

An increasing number of utilities are offering time-of-use (TOU) rate plans, which incentivize EV owners to schedule charging at off-peak times. However, as Canary Media reports, some utilities require customers to install redundant separate electrical meters at their own expense in order to take part in TOU programs, even though many EV charging stations can

Even with a new CEO, Volkswagen is still determined to become the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles. Source: InsideEVs – Articles Read More

Toyota announced U.S. EV battery production, and that sounds like a nod to future U.S.-built EVs. Bosch intends to make fuel cells in the U.S. for semis. And Sono Motors is racking up reservations for its solar EV. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Sono has announced that it’s reached 20,000 reservations for

Germany’s Sono Motors confirmed on Thursday that it has 20,000 direct consumer reservations for its upcoming Sion solar-supplemented EV that, if you don’t drive much, might seldom if ever cost you anything to “fuel.” Sono says that the Sion, which is due to be produced by Valmet Automotive in Finland starting in the second half

Hillcrest Energy Technologies, an inverter and control system company, has released a white paper describing the advantages of its soft switching technology. Hillcrest’s soft switching technology uses high switching frequency and is designed for EV traction inverters. In the white paper, authors from Hillcrest and Systematec write: “Simulation and experimental results have shown that higher

The important question here is, who’s video is more accurate, O’Dowd’s or the FSD beta tester’s? Source: InsideEVs – Articles Read More