A Steadily Expanding Charging Network

Stats time – here are some interesting numbers I’ve run across recently: • 600 new fast-charging stations came online in the US in the 3rd quarter of 2024.• There are now about 9,000 public fast-charging sites across America.• By year’s end there will be roughly 1...

Steady Progress

We don’t often write about our competitors in this space, but recently we came across some interesting news. In the US in September, the percentage of Toyota’s sales which came from electrified vehicles (hybrids, plug in hybrids, battery electrics) was 48%. Two years...

Fully Converted

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...

Volvo Moves Back to 90%

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...

Q2 EV Sales

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...

A “New” Kind of Hybrid

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...