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
A study conducted in the US has come to conclusions which do not sit well with EV ownership depending on the source of energy. If an electric vehicle is powered via a coal powered power station the pollution results are worse than for a gasoline powered vehicle and cause 86% more deaths due to air pollution.
2017 Nissan Leaf The range of electric cars has been one of the major hurdles preventing greater uptake. Unless you can afford a Tesla (range of 500kms) you're currently stuck around the 160kms range with today's production vehicles. Although today's range is more than enough for the average driver range anxiety is a definite deterrent. (According
Chinese battery company BYD have announced the worlds largest electric bus - the articulated or 'bendy' Lancaster ebus. The bus has been designed and built in the US town of Lancaster and is powered by iron phosphate batteries. This gives the 18 meter long people mover, a range of around 240kms with a payload of 120
Headline 2020 - 800kms on a single charge - EV batteries ridiculously cheap! EV sales doubled in 2013. So far this year (up to June 2014) sales in the US are over 30% up on the same period as 2013 with the Nissan Leaf leading the pack. The trend is set and the naysayers of
Resale Value Just Improved Nissan have announced a replacement cost for their battery packs for the inevitable day when a replacement pack is required. The battery pack is currently guaranteed against capacity loss for 5 years or 96,500kms and 8 years or 240,000kms against defects. For Leaf owners the new announcement means they can replace
Power Japan Plus - a Japanese startup - makes some incredible claims for an organic cotton battery. Cotton? Yes the same stuff that's in your clothes, bless your cotton socks. By changing the structure of the cotton fibre, PJP states unique properties are created that lead to a battery technology they claim is superior in