Andrew Forrest is a leader in the move away from fossil fuels. He established Fortescue Future Industries (FFFI) to capitalise on and accelerate the transition to a green global economy. Recently, while announcing Fortescue Metals Group’s “best-ever” half-year result he said: “We have … a very rare insight, I think, for a mining company, into […]
Chinese electric vehicles are making their way into European markets at large. XPeng announced its first deliveries to Norway in October 2020. Around the same time, John Voelcker, a seasoned auto reviewer, drove the company’s P7 electric sedan, and pronounced it pretty darn good — it had “perhaps 75 percent of the features and capability […]
The new Mega Grant program, created by the President’s infrastructure law, will bring massive economic benefits to communities across the nation. NEW YORK – Today, President Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded nearly $1.2 billion from the new National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Mega) discretionary grant program for nine […]
Electric scooters and electric bicycles are quite popular in several countries around the world. A lot of them are under ride share platforms. It’s pretty cool that one can get one via an app and go about your business and leave the scooter (neatly stored, I hope) when you get to your destination. Behind all […]
Plugin vehicles in China once again ended the year with a record month, growing by 83% year over year (YoY) in the last month of the year to a record 671,000 units. Interestingly, full electric vehicles (BEVs) had a slow month, growing just 13%, to 471,000 units. They were responsible for 70% of the plugin […]
For the last couple of months, something has really been grinding my gears, but I figured it was a fad that was going to go away. When Tesla renamed its charging connector and called it the “North American Charging Standard,” Tesla fans adopted the NACS acronym overnight. My initial reaction was that it was a bad […]
