In some circles Patriotism is a big deal, and it seems Patriots are routinely bashing electric vehicles, solar power, and this sort of thing. The video below is by an American living in North Carolina, who makes YouTube videos about hunting with guns and arrows, and presents himself as a…
Recently on Facebook a claim has gone around that Tesla is phasing out the J1772 adapter. This adapter is required for a Tesla car to charge at a regular charging station, since Tesla cars have a Tesla-specific charging port. There is a lot of history behind why Tesla has a…
The latest step in the marketing/sales chaos that is Tesla has the company on the one hand making it almost impossible to buy a $35,000 MSRP Tesla Model 3, on the other hand starting a lease program, while still continuing to display misleading pricing on the Tesla website. This follows…
How much is “peace of mind” worth on your daily commute? If you arrive at the office well rested, or arrive home well rested, even after a 50 mile grind through logjammed traffic, is that “well rested” state justification for paying a premium price for a car? Tesla’s CEO Elon…
The long-awaited $35,000 MSRP Tesla Model 3 now is available via the Tesla website. This is the affordable mass production electric car Tesla has promised for several years, and it is now available. But was Tesla satisfied solely to reach that milestone? Nope, the announcement contained a nugget that I…
The yearly REFUEL electric car racing event is sort of in the news today. Jaguar issued a press release about the Jaguar i-Pace. While saying the car will appear at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, August 24 – 26, Jaguar said an i-Pace driven…
Nissan today announced details, availability and pricing of the 2018 Nissan Leaf, curiously stressing that the Leaf is not an electric car (despite the electric drive train). Instead, the company stressed driver assist features like ProPILOT (lane keeping), ProPILOT Park (parking assist) as a way to appeal to drivers by…
The expectations on Tesla about the Model 3 are so high that Elon Musk has had to downplay the company to keep the stock from getting over-hyped. Well, I assume that’s what he’s doing when he says Tesla is probably overvalued. There’s the possibility of irrational exuberance carrying people away…
Buried in the middle of Honda’s announcement of the Honda Clarity Electric lease price ($269/month in case you’re interested) is a sign that CHAdeMO’s prominence is crumbling. Over the last several years we’ve had an unfortunate schism in electric car DC fast charging, with some automakers pushing for CHAdeMO, Tesla…
The race is on to deliver an affordable long-range electric car, with 200+ miles range and $35,000 MSRP as the next target. Several car makers are working on this, promising to deliver such vehicles in the next couple years. The rush to declare this vehicle or that a Tesla Killer…
With the production version of the Chevy Bolt finally being shown, Wired Magazine got access inside the engineering and management teams responsible for that car, and has written an interesting inside story of how the Bolt came to be. It’s easy to dismiss GM as not understanding electric vehicles, this…
Tesla Motors is incrementally adding more autopilot autonomous driving features to the Model S and Model X. With the 7.1 update just released, the car will detect the ability to autopark into a space while driving through parking lots, and can drive itself (unoccupied) in and out of a garage.…
It’s a bit premature to do this, but can we compare between the Chevy Bolt and Tesla Model 3? While precise details for these cars haven’t been published, enough is publicly known to draw a few conclusions. And while we’re at it, we can include some hypothetical information on some other 200+…
At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, General Motors CEO/Chairman Marry Barra unveiled the production version of the 2017 Chevy Bolt, one year after the concept version of the Bolt was unveiled. Unfortunately they’ve kept this confusing name, which will cause confusion between the Bolt and Volt…
At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, Volkswagen unveiled the latest version of the BUDD-e — a refresh of the iconic VW Bus, for the modern era, with an all electric drive train, and many interesting connected-vehicle features. It’s an exciting concept car, and the sort of vehicle that you’d expect…
