The Jeep Wrangler is a no-holds-barred off-road machine that aims to go around, over, or through whatever’s in front of it, regardless of terrain. The plug-in hybrid variant? Same deal. With EPA ratings of 22 miles of electric driving range and 20 mpg combined on gasoline after you run through a charge, the 2023 Jeep
The BYD Seagull looks a lot like the venerable Chevy Bolt EV, but comes in at a literal fraction of the price… but with a fraction of the specs as well. As BYD expects to pass Tesla in Global EV sales this year by expanding its markets with significantly lower-priced vehicles, will we start seeing
Traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry, thanks to the “Buy American” requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and similar provisions in the EU’s new Battery Directive. Bureau Veritas is one of the largest TIC (test, inspection and certification) companies. It has 80,000 employees worldwide and
By Johnna Crider Posted on January 18, 2023 Twitter auctioned off many of its memorabilia, office supplies, furniture, and more this week. The auction ended on Wednesday morning and included its large bird logo statue that sold for $100,000. When Elon Musk bought the platform for $44 billion, he later pointed out that the company
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The oil giants, flush with cash after a year of record profits, are on a buying spree in the EV charging space. The latest company to be gobbled up is Volta Charging, which will be acquired by Shell USA in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $169 million. Shell USA will acquire all outstanding shares
The first customer example of the Mercedes-Benz AMG One hypercar has been delivered more than five months after production started and more than five years after the car was first shown at the 2017 Frankfurt auto show. The first customer example is finished in black and was delivered to a customer in Germany. Just 275
I check out the solar EV called Sion from Sono Motors in San Francisco, CA. Full video on the main channel.
In this latest instalment of Fully Charged News; Robert Llewellyn discusses US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Rep AOC) giving Exxon climate change research scientists a grilling over ExxonMobil’s climate change cover up: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grills former Exxon scientists on oil giant's climate change denial pic.twitter.com/uW6OFrHow2 — The Independent (@Independent) October 25, 2019 Original Tweet from @Birdman196007
It’s finally official, Sony Honda Mobility plans to bring the Afeela EV to market in 2025. However, while we’ve finally seen a prototype, which debuted at CES 2023, there are many unanswered questions. The company did speak with journalists at the event about its potential sales plans, and they’re not typical. According to Electrek, Sony
California is now actively banning older diesel trucks from operating on its roads. A new rule states that any diesel vehicle weighing over 14,000 pounds with an engine built before the 2010 model year is banned from California roads effective January 1, 2023. The rule, part of a set of emissions regulations implemented by the
SEA Electric, a global leader in 100% electric commercial powertrain solutions, is leading the charge to eliminate CO2 emissions. The company announced it would convert 8,500 Toyota Hilux and Landcruiser to fully electric powerhouses to be used in the mining industry. Launching its first model in 2017, SEA Electric uses its scalable all-electric SEA-Drive power
The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. Now subsidiary EV Metals Arabia has advanced its plans to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia. EVM Arabia has been awarded an allocation of 127 hectares of land from The Royal Commission at Yanbu and a
By Eric Ralph Posted on January 17, 2023 SpaceX may be focused on preparing Starship S24 and Super Heavy Booster 7 for their potentially imminent orbital launch debut, but the rest of the company’s Starship factory isn’t just sitting around. The laser focus on carefully testing Ship 24 and Booster 7 may have limited the
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Toyota and Oncor Electric Delivery, a Texas-based electric transmission and distribution company, have announced a joint pilot project to research vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. The effort is Toyota’s first EV-related collaboration with a US public utility. The results, Toyota says, will allow the two companies to be better prepared to support the EV charging ecosystem. The
It isn’t always the case that an automotive CEO is a car guy or car gal. It’s rarer still when the CEO is also an avid racing driver. One such case is the CEO of Ford, Jim Farley. (Another is Toyota chief Akio Toyoda.) Farley has been racing vintage cars for well over a decade,
5 Electric Car Checks for a Hassle-Free Holiday Plan to Make This Year’s Trips Unforgettable You’ve made a big plan for the holidays this year, got your family prepped and ready to go, and have your itinerary planned out. You are about to leave the driveway, and your maintenance light pops on at that exact
Kia reports that its global vehicle sales in December increased by nearly 14 percent year-over-year to 236,874 units. In 2022, the company sold 2,903,619 vehicles, which translated into a growth of 4.6 percent year-over-year. That’s a pretty positive outcome from a very challenging year. Things are very good also in terms of electrification. The all-electric
Airbus recently announced that it’s planning to design, build, and demonstrate a “megawatt-class propulsion system” intended for a large-scale passenger aircraft, featuring hydrogen fuel-cell tech with cryogenic hydrogen storage, in less than four years. This doesn’t mean that a hydrogen fuel-cell jumbo-airliner is on the way in that timeframe, or that the company sees fuel-cell
Hertz and Uber announced today that they are expanding their partnership to electrify their fleets, and they are deploying 25,000 electric cars in Europe. In 2020, Hertz announced an important effort to electrify its fleet of rental cars, led by a massive purchase of 100,000 Tesla Model 3 vehicles to be delivered over the next year. Shortly
CATL and Honda Motor China have announced that Honda will purchase 123 GWh of CATL’s EV batteries in China from 2024 through 2030. In 2020, CATL and Honda signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance, which has enabled the two companies to cooperate in a broad range of areas, including joint development, stable supply
By Eric Ralph Posted on January 16, 2023 CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX’s South Texas Starship aims to build up to five of the two-stage megarockets in 2023. SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas hardware endeavors began in an empty field in late 2018, kicking off Starhopper testing in 2019. In late 2019 and early 2020,
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Governments around the world are taking measures to accelerate the decarbonization of transport. However, too often these are piecemeal efforts that lack strategic vision and fail to address the entire transport ecosystem. Now, for the first time, the US gummint has presented a comprehensive plan that involves multiple agencies and addresses almost every segment of
Dodge briefly considered building a sports car in the early 1950s, but the project only resulted in a single prototype. Today, the 1953 Dodge Storm Z-250 is in the collection of the Petersen Automotive Museum, which recently produced a video on this unique car presented by Leslie Kendall, the museum’s chief historian. Imported European sports
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Welcome Maddie Moate to the team, with her first solo episodes for Fully Charged. Maddie wants to go electric, so we follow her journey as she goes from moving house, to research, to test drives, to installation. This is Maddie’s honest opinion of the market, trying to understand it and learn something new. This series
Road Test: 2023 Genesis GV60 EV All-Electric Performance AWD Luxury I like to get drive impressions from my wife for some of the cars I review. After driving the 2023 Genesis GV60 Performance AWD for about 40 miles, she emphatically said this is the car she wants. This is saying something, as she has ridden