At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Toyota is demo’ing it’s idea of the “Future of Mobility”. As has become plainly obvious over the last couple years, Toyota believes plug-in vehicles will fail and that fuel cell EV’s are the future. While other companies are at CES…
This evening Faraday Future finally unveiled themselves, showing off what the company has been developing, including a massively powerful electric race car. The key is what the company calls it’s Variable Platform Architecture, which should enable the company to develop nearly any kind of four-wheeled vehicle. In other words, Faraday…
Last week California’s Transportation Agency, Caltrans, issued a Design Guidance document describing implementation of protected bikeways in California. The document should make it easier for California cities to design/redesign their cities to provide a better balance between all street system users. The picture shown above is one of the…
A bill currently before Congress would make it nearly impossible to launch class action lawsuits. The VW Dieselgate scandal is begging for a class action lawsuit by vehicle owners who were all lied to by the Volkswagen Group, and all of whom have suffered economic damage from the scandal. Additionally,…
GM has taken a big step towards offering autonomously driven robotaxi services, hinted in a press release in October 2015, by making a $500 million investment into Lyft. The companies pledged “a long-term strategic alliance to create an integrated network of on-demand autonomous vehicles in the U.S.” That investing $500M into…
The legal impact of Volkswagen’s illegal skirting of US Emissions Control laws is starting to be levied. Today, the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, launched a civil lawsuit against the Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., Volkswagen Group of…
Tesla Motors announced today they’d (barely) hit their electric car sales target for Q4 2015 and for all of 2015. This was another make-or-break moment for the company. While the Model X launch is not quite as significant as the Model S launch in 2012, launching production of a second…
Tesla Motors has had a spot of bad news – another Model S has caught on fire, this time not from road debris but while plugged into a Supercharger station. This happened in Norway, according to a news post on fvn.co, for a brand new car. The owner had plugged in,…
Nissan and BMW announced today a welcome deal to build dual-protocol fast charging at 120 locations across 19 states. This is another sign of cooperation between two main factions of the competition to establish the dominant fast charging protocol. For the last five years, a big question dogging the electric vehicle…
Hoverboards have been catching fire, airlines have banned them from luggage, some retailers have stopped selling them, and the fires are starting to show up in the press. These vehicles, “Self-balancing two-wheeled scooter” is a better phrase than Hoverboard, are an interesting new way to get around. They’re pure electric,…
After over 20 years of negotiations, the COP (Conference of Parties) UN Climate Change negotiation process has finally produced an “accord”. French President François Hollande spun it as “The decisive deal for the planet is here.” But environmentalists lamented the climate change deal reached in Paris did not do enough. In…
Ford Motors recently announced two plans that reawaken interest in Ford’s electrification plans. I think most people have forgotten about those plans, because Ford seemingly hasn’t done very much. Except, if you look at the monthly sales figures you see that Ford C-Max Energi and Ford Fusion Energi sales, if taken…
With the recent embrace of DC Fast Charging, as well as Home Charging solutions, ChargePoint has positioned itself as a full service electric car charging station network. Today, ChargePoint held a Webinar targeted at “property owners” who would be a charging station host site. The goal of course is to persuade…
Today, ChargePoint announced an expansion of its ChargePoint Places program that’s being used to promote attractive EV-Friendly destinations. The program is cool because EV drivers are presented with reassurance they’ll be able to travel with their electric car, and charge at the destination. Showcasing destinations that do offer electric…
Today, the Obama Administration delayed an oil and gas lease sale that was inconveniently scheduled for December 10, 2015, or right in the middle of the Paris COP climate talks. Activist groups, like 350.org, are claiming this as a “win” because the action was taken after pressure from those groups. Having…
