Dec 17, 2020 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Battery packs for electric cars checked off a milestone this year — just an ever-so-slight ray of sunshine on what’s been a pretty gloomy 2020. For the first time, prices slid under $100 per kilowatt hour, and thorough analysis shows prices fell...
Dec 17, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Mobility
After six years in business, Zoox – Amazon’s autonomous vehicle company – unveiled its first self-driving taxi. The firm on Monday took the wraps off of an electric “purpose-built robotaxi” that it developed for its future...
Dec 10, 2020 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Hybrids
Hybrid cars are seeing a quiet resurgence as the boom in electric vehicles spurs automakers to give the older, cheaper technology a second look. This year has been an extraordinary one for electric-car manufacturers. Investors have embraced makers of pure-electric...
Dec 10, 2020 | Batteries, Business, Electric Vehicles
An electric vehicle battery startup backed by Bill Gates and Volkswagen is claiming a major breakthrough on a technology that it says could power the next generation of clean cars and make them as widely attractive to drivers as gas vehicles — though some experts...
Dec 3, 2020 | Business, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
In a nearly hour-long interview on the Freakonomics Radio podcast, General Motors CEO Mary Barra talks about the automaker’s electric vehicle strategy and President Donald Trump, among many other topics. One of the main subjects is GM’s...
Dec 3, 2020 | Business, Electric Vehicles
Proposed combustion-engine bans in Europe and Japan by 2030 shouldn’t concern Swedish premium automaker Volvo too much, its CEO insisted. They’ll only make electric cars (EVs) by then anyway, Volvo CEO and President Hakan Samuelsson told the Financial Times Future of...
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