by Phil Jackson | Sep 18, 2024
One of our EVs was in the shop last week with a flat tire. The service loaner we borrowed was gasoline powered. I did not expect what happened next.I did not enjoy driving the ICE-powered car. At all. The sound of the engine, the shift points, the acceleration, using...
by Phil Jackson | Sep 9, 2024
Last week’s headlines from Volvo were all about their decision to relax their target of selling 100% EVs by 2030. The new target – given the slowing growth curve of the current EV market – is that 90% of Volvo’s sales will be EVs by the year 2030. While...
by Phil Jackson | Aug 22, 2024
Americans purchased 331,500 fully electric vehicles in Q2, an 11% increase over Q2 2023. Tesla accounted for 164,000 Q2 sales, but interestingly for the first time its share of the EV market dipped below 50%. The leading non-Tesla EV sales leader was the Ford Mustang...
by Phil Jackson | Aug 8, 2024
The Boston Business Journal has named Village Automotive Group an honoree in its annual 2024 Corporate Citizenship Awards, a recognition of the region’s top corporate charitable contributors.The Business Journal annually publishes this list to showcase companies...
by Phil Jackson | Jul 29, 2024
Even though there are numerous electric vehicles capable of covering over 300 miles on a single charge, the issue of range anxiety continues to be a barrier to widespread adoption in the United States.One interesting solution to address the concern of running out of...
by Phil Jackson | Jul 11, 2024
Would you be comfortable driving a car with no rear window? The latest innovation from Polestar is the unique rear design of the new Polestar 4. This new design allows for an extended panoramic roof, with a spacious passenger environment and generous headroom. A...
by Phil Jackson | Jun 26, 2024
Did you know that a vehicle with an internal combustion engine (ICE) converts only a quarter of the energy in gasoline into driving, while an electric car converts more than three-quarters of the energy in the battery into motion? Or that burning one unit of natural...
by Phil Jackson | May 29, 2024
A year or so ago all you heard in the media was how adoption of EVs was skyrocketing, while in the present all you hear is that EV sales are cratering. The truth as always is somewhere in-between. As GM’s Mary Barra said recently about the US outlook for EVs: “I think...
by Phil Jackson | May 16, 2024
Remember when you needed 2 keys to operate your car: one for the doors/trunk, the other to turn the ignition? Keys gave way to fobs, and now fobs are giving way to your phone. Polestars and Teslas pair up with your phone, so you don’t have to carry around that fob...
by Phil Jackson | May 1, 2024
Producing a battery for an electric vehicle typically entails mining substantial quantities of difficult-to-access minerals. Conventional methods of extracting and refining these materials for battery production demand vast amounts of energy, resulting in a higher...
