The electric monstrosity from GM takes advantage of years of gradual improvements to Li-ion technology. Even those who are not really into EV battery chemistry might have heard that Tesla started using LFP batteries, instead of “normal” Li-ion batteries, in some of its products. LFP batteries are nickel-free. It started…

10.7% of cars and SUVs sold in Spain in March 2022 were plug-in electric, according to the trade association ANFAC. BEVs (all-electrics) were 5.2% (3090 units). PHEVs were 5.5% (3307 units). It has been over a year since the last time I wrote about Spain — describing December 2020, a…

Almost one in three cars sold in Sweden in March 2022 was all-electric. 32% of new cars sold were all-electric (BEVs) and 24% of them were plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), which brought the market share of plug-in cars to 56%. Tesla traditionally delivers more vehicles at the end of each quarter…

55% of new cars sold last year were plug-in electric. BEVs (all-electric cars) were 28% of the market while PHEVs were 27%, bringing the total market share of plug-in cars to 55%. For comparison, in 2020 these figures were 25%, 20% and 45%, respectively. Tesla was the best-selling brand of…

At the moment, batteries are not yet an important source of grid electricity. Except in California, where they are. As long as power generation is dominated by fossil fuels, electricity from grid-connected solar farms or wind farms usually does not go to waste; even when generation from renewables is (temporarily)…

From the quite recent past, actually. With the production of the all-electric Ford Transit barely starting in Kansas City, it might come as a surprise that 2,500 electric Ford Transits have been in service in Germany for about two years. The Deutsche Post/DHL — which is both the regular German…

A glimpse at a cheap Chinese electric hatchback that does not have “cheap” or “Chinese” written all over it. If you are in the market for an electric car, the range of available products keeps increasing. If you are in the market for an affordable electric car, your best bet…

A company called Futuricum beat Tesla to the market. Nothing ticks off an established vehicle manufacturer — with ambitious plans to gradually electrify its lineup over the next decade or two — like a small competitor that, instead of waiting for that exciting future, prefers to work in the present…

Market share at 12.8% in the first half of 2021. The number of electric trucks sold in South Korea in the first six months of 2021 was about 13,800. And the market share of all-electric models among trucks was about 12.8%. Like last year, it’s still just two models —…