Ratcheting Up Charging

With all of the discussion surrounding the serious investments toward vehicle electrification being made these days by automobile manufacturers, an often-overlooked angle is the amount of money being funneled toward the electric vehicle charging industry. By one...

Picking Tires

It’s much easier to link out to this article than to try and summarize – suffice it to say, there are many considerations when deciding which tires to choose for your electric car – check it out! Electric Cars Have a Big Tire Conundrum        ...

Electric Car Driving Update

After 10 months of driving an electric car, here’s a quick update: As someone who grew up loving car culture and the driving experience, I’ve found that owning an electric car has reignited my love of driving. There’s no going back! That’s all....

Stale ICE

The money is with electric cars: automakers have pledged $526 billion in collective investment for electric vehicles through 2026.And the momentum is with electric cars: the US just passed the 5% milestone, where five percent of all domestic auto sales are electric...

Electrifying America

Earlier this year I received a nice offer regarding my new Polestar 2 – a company named Electrify America had joined with Polestar to offer free charging for the first 30 minutes of charge time for 2 years. Electrify America’s network is DC Fast Charging, so that’s a...

Plugged-In Prancing Horses

In today’s news about the inevitable progression toward electric cars, we have Ferrari coming out with their plan to electrify their lineup. The first electric Ferrari will hit showrooms in 3 years, after a $4.6 billion (USD) investment to develop fully electric and...

Long-Term Electric Vehicle Outlook

Bloomberg recently published their annual long-term electric vehicle outlook. Here are some interesting highlights: • By the end of 2022, there will be more than 27 million electric passenger vehicles on the road. The total number of passenger vehicles worldwide is...

6 Figures

Events of the past 2 years have upset many an apple cart, with the automotive marketplace being upended and scrambled numerous times. We went from no business to unbelievable demand, white-hot used car markets and a rush on new vehicles, and now we have chip shortages...

Walk the Walk

Automobile manufacturing electrification plans are inundating our Twitter feeds, so it is good to see an OEM actually walking the talk. Volvo made news yesterday by saying that its entire model lineup for 2023 will have an electrical aspect to the powertrain. Volvo...

Against the Wind

Honda just spent $124 million dollars to build a new wind tunnel testing facility in East Liberty, Ohio. You would think that after a century’s plus worth of research and design, the auto industry would know everything it needed to know about cars and how they slice...