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 | 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 | 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 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...
by Phil Jackson | Mar 18, 2024
Driving with an EV is way cheaper than driving with gasoline – that’s the finding on a recent article you can click over to: https://grist.org/energy/gasoline-is-cheap-right-now-but-charging-an-ev-is-still-cheaper/ What’s fascinating is that the article shows the cost...
