Seasonal Tips: Getting the Best Range from Your EV
Let’s explore a few seasonal tips for optimizing your EV’s range, looking at how winter, spring, summer and fall can affect your car’s performance.
Batteries
Opinion: Will Lithium Be Our Next Energy Crisis?
Based on what we see happening in the EV industry, the U.S. lithium development timeline needs to be crunched. The only way that can happen is if government and regulatory bodies push these things through the bureaucracy at a faster pace.
Update: Top 10 Electric Cars
Automakers continued to increase our choice of plug-in hybrid and all-electric cars and crossovers. Competition is heating up for the U.S. electric car leadership claimed by Tesla for the past few years. The Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt are legacy players in the battle, now joined by dozens of new players. Consumers win because they have choice.
Event: Battery Show and Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo
Senior leaders from the Department of Energy, Ford Motor Company and LG Energy Solutions are set to headline the upcoming jointly located Battery Show and Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo that will take place in Novi, Michigan, September 14-16, 2021.
Micromobility: Zapp Scooters Bring Style, Range and Fun to Urban Riding
British brand Zapp unveiled its first powered two-wheeled i300 city bike in Michigan on August 4.; it will be on sale in the U.S. next year.
History: Electric Cars: The Golden Age
During the early 1900s, there was a golden age of electric cars, when they made up more than one-third of car sales in the U.S.
Tech: High/Low Temps Drain Your EV Range
EVs can lose more than 40 percent of their battery performance during the cold of winter–a pretty staggering amount.
Buyer’s Guide: Hybrid vs. Electric: Which is better?
Comparing hybrid and electric vehicles, your lifestyle and environmental impact goals can make a huge difference in which option works better for you.
Tips: Keeping an Electric Car Safe from the Cold
EVs have come a long way over the years—but they still require a little extra care to ensure they work their best. That’s primarily true in the winter.
Interview: KoBold Metals’ Kurt House
There is one big issue—the mining of battery components—that has been EVs’ dirty little secret.