This week Tesla Motors unveiled a larger battery pack for the Tesla Model S. With a 100 kiloWatt-hour battery pack they’re now up to 315 miles EPA range, and it also let Tesla juice up the Ludicrous mode for an even faster 0-60 miles/hr time and claim to be selling…
Recent talk has been of Nissan/Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn at the recent Nissan shareholders meeting talking about autonomous driving Leaf’s, and Leaf’s with the range of gasoline cars. This video shows someone driving a Leaf with the starting range at 544 kilometers, driving through the countryside, past charging station after…
A 200ish mile range for $35,000 MSRP is next threshold for electric cars, and appearances it will be reached within a year or two. Maybe. Earlier today InsideEV’s reported on a slide from a presentation given by Tesla Motors CTO JB Straubl that claimed the Tesla Model 3 (200 mile range…
PlugShare just became extremely more useful. It was already the best smart phone app for locating electric car charging stations, not just in the U.S. because its data extends to Australia, Europe and other places. What’s new is Recargo has added a Trip Planner that’s pretty useful. What’s shown is trip…
Back in the day, long ago in 2010 when the modern phase of electric cars hadn’t started being sold to the public, General Motors was showing the Chevy Volt at some public events. One of those was at the Presidio of San Francisco (in a couple hundred years, due to…
On Sunday, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk did one of his famous cryptic tweets claiming to have solved a big issue for electric cars — range anxiety. Tesla press conf at 9am on Thurs. About to end range anxiety … via OTA software update. Affects entire Model S fleet. —…
Does familiarity breed contempt, or confidence? That depends on a lot of factors, but a recent study showed that after about 3 months of electric vehicle ownership, EV drivers gain confidence and drive further afield. Familiarity can breed range confidence rather than range anxiety, so please don’t buy into the…
If range anxiety is the bugaboo of electric cars, Coda Automotive’s Aaron Cohen calls on automakers to build electric cars that inspire range confidence instead. The major concerns about electric vehicles are Price and Range, and Coda Automotive’s Aaron Cohen gave a presentation at this weeks Plug-in 2012 conference talking…
