• Lancia Zero Electric Sports Car Concept Wins 2024 Drive For Design Contest

    The winners of this year's Drive for Design contest have been announced and all three high school students created a futuristic Lancia. Rohan Seiber came in first place with his Lancia Zero electric sports car concept. Stellantis has announced the winners of this year’s Drive for Design contest and all three of them have something in common. They all drew a futuristic Lancia, despite the contest being open exclusively to U.S. high school students and primarily geared towards Chrysler, Dodge,...

  • Smart Concept #5 SUV Concept Car unveiled

    The automotive industry is undergoing a significant transformation as electric vehicles (EVs) gain popularity, particularly in the SUV segment. The mid-size electric SUV market is experiencing rapid growth as consumers increasingly seek vehicles that offer the versatility and space of traditional SUVs combined with the environmental benefits and technological advancements of electric powertrains. The Smart […]

  • Have we passed peak electric car?

    Electric cars have not become better or cheaper fast enough, and without rapid improvements the market will run out of road, says Paul Ormerod This week I got rid of my electric car. As a car, it was a pleasure to drive. I also enjoyed the fact that it disconcerted at least some of my []

  • 10 reasons not to buy an electric car

    Align: Vroom editors Paul Brian and Lauren Fix may be seasoned car industry experts, but that doesn't mean they're completely immune to the electric vehicle hype. "As far as looks spectacular," says Lauren. "Technology, amazing. And all of this entices you because the car manufacturers are doing something completely different than they did before." But those compliments come with some pretty big misgivings. Should you hop on board the EV bandwagon? Paul and Lauren recently sat down with me to...

  • Spain and China: electric cars in Barcelona

    Barcelona, April 22 (Prensa Latina) Spain and China are preparing to produce 150 thousand vehicles, mainly electric, after an agreement signed today in Barcelona by Chery and Ebro-Ev Motors. The post Spain and China: electric cars in Barcelona first appeared on Prensa Latina.

  • Bumpy ride for electric cars in Europe

    Electric cars are a key part of Europe’s green transition plans but the road ahead remains littered with obstacles with 10 years to go before a crucial milestone. Despite the fact that the sale of new petrol and diesel cars will be banned in the European Union as of 2035, sales of plug-in “zero emission” […]

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    The electric car revolution is on track, says IEA

    Global electric vehicle sales are set to rise by more than a fifth to reach 17 million this year, powered by drivers in China, according to the International Energy Agency. In a report Tuesday, the IEA projected that “surging demand” for EVs over the next decade was set “to remake the global auto industry and significantly reduce oil consumption for road transport.” It expects half of all cars sold globally to be electric by 2035, up from more than one in five this year, provided charging...

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    The electric car revolution is on track, says IEA

    By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Global electric vehicle sales are set to rise by more than a fifth to reach 17 million this year, powered by drivers in China, according to the International Energy Agency. In a report Tuesday, the IEA projected that “surging demand” for EVs over the next decade was set

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    The electric car revolution is on track, says IEA

    By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Global electric vehicle sales are set to rise by more than a fifth to reach 17 million this year, powered by drivers in China, according to the International Energy Agency. In a report Tuesday, the IEA projected that “surging demand” for EVs over the next decade was set

  • Electric Cars, Cultivated Meat and Technological Change

    There have been a lot of negative stories in the press lately about cultivated meat. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. It has the potentially to dramatically reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions, pandemic risk, and the suffering we inflict on animals. Conservative states are trying to ban the More

  • Who invented Scalextric? Was it the first electric race car set?

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  • Britishvolt's gigafactory site sold off in electric car blow

    US private equity investors have bought the site of what had been hoped would become Britain’s first electric car battery gigafactory in a blow to Britain’s net zero ambitions.]]>