I was in Melbourne recently and was fortunate enough to catch up with Richard Ferlazzo the Design Director for GM Holden. Richard and his very talented design team are based in Port Melbourne and are the people responsible for the beautifully crafted GM Electric Bolt. The Bolt caused quite a stir at the Detroit motor show
Australia has not been marked out as a country that embraces electric vehicles. VW won't come here as they don't see any enthusiasm for the technology and there are no incentives for zero emission vehicles. Having said that EV Fast Charge stations are being built around the country - one in Western Australia thanks to
We've reported quite a bit about batteries over the years with a lot of hopeful technologies promising greater energy density, lower costs and improved performance. Battery research has been frantic in the last few years with many organisations from IBM to leading universities to various startups vying for the holy grail of cheap, environmentally and operationally safe,
In a report released on the 24th March 2015, the German based Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemburg (ZSW) stated the global numbers for electric vehicles is close to three quarters of a million vehicles (740,000) with just about half of those (320,000) being purchased in 2014 and that's despite lower global oil prices. The United
There's been much speculation over recent weeks that Apple are ramping up to enter the car market. The best guess scenario to date is that they will produce an electric vehicle around 2020 under the codename 'Project Titan', possibly shaped like a mini-van, that will compete with Tesla & GM and that it will be autonomous.
Elon Musk casually announced Tesla's official entry into home battery storage. Since the announcement of the Gigafactory there has been a deal of speculation that Tesla would move to home storage systems as it makes perfect sense for the company to enter the energy market. He stated the home battery packs could be in production in
Not from terrorism - not from Ebola - but still dead and it happens every year. 2000 die in Madrid annually from vehicle pollution and the locals are fed up with it. It's not as if Madrid is the highest ranking air polluted city in Europe - it doesn't even make the top 3 and comes
It's been an interesting week in Australian politics with Prime Minister Abbott hogging the limelight for all the wrong reasons. The farcical notion of an Australian Prime Minister awarding a knighthood to the Queen's husband has dominated the airwaves and rightly called into question the PM's judgement. Not being so highly reported but a story
MEC has reported on the impending revolution of autonomous (self drive/driverless/no driver) vehicles previously. Already we are seeing the technology built in to existing high end models such as the Tesla P85D and probably most people are aware of the Google self drive car. The advances in the underlying technology seem to be advancing at a more
There has been quite a bit of press coverage recently resulting from the study by the University of Minnesota that had the predictable headlines of "Your all electric car may not be so green" or similar, despite that same study stating the cleanest vehicles are electric cars powered by renewable energy. Funny how some reporters