General Motors to Use Wind Power for Reaching Renewable Energy Goals
We’ve been following General Motors’ renewable energy plans for a long time, and this is the first time that we’ve heard of the global...
Tesla Motors Could Double Global Demand for Panasonic 18650 Lithium-Ion Cells
Tesla Motors started out small and, probably in a money-saving move, decided to use commodity Panasonic 18650 Lithium-ion cells for its battery packs.
As...
Bob Lutz – VIA Motors’ Full Size X-Truck Gets 100 MPGe, “Makes Prius Look...
Would we ever have expected to hear the words “monster truck” and “100 MPGe” used in the same article, much less describing one vehicle?...
Tesla Motors Official Discloses Interesting Information About Their EV Battery
In an interview given to TechOn!, Kurt Kelty, Director of battery technologies at Tesla Motors, explained a few historic facts which led to the Roadster's success. One of them was the adoption of laptop lithium ion batteries, and building a safe and robust energy storage out of them.
Tesla Model 3 Unveiled Today – Despite Cost Cuts, Still Feels Like a Tesla
Tesla Model 3 has finally been unveiled a few hours ago at the Hawthorne SpaceX studio, as usual. This has been Elon Musk's promise from...
Toyota Prius v Competition – General Motors Working on Small Hybrid MPV
Hybrid MPVs are a particularly rare breed and, at least in the US, but you may be familiar with the two most well-known models,...
VIA Motors’ Big Hybrid Truck Lineup Revealed at 2013 NAIAS
Bob Lutz, General Motors ex-vice chairman, is now heading up efforts to produce a series of extended-range electric vehicles that are nothing...
General Motors EN-V 2.0 – The Future of Electric Vehicle Transportation
According to General Motors, electric vehicles figure big in the future of transportation, and autonomous at that!
Individual ownership of cars has proven to be...
New Software Could Improve Conventional Vehicle Fuel Economy by 15%
Mechanically-speaking, the internal combustion has changed little in the last century, refinements enabling more power and better fuel economy, but there are limits.
The first...
4 Battery Chemistries that Could Change Electric Vehicles
Right now, lithium-ion technology is king when it comes to electric vehicle batteries, but scientists are hard at work to find something even better.
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