Six utilities today announced the formation of the Electric Highway Coalition. It’s a plan to ensure that electric vehicle drivers have access to a network of charging stations on major highway systems on the Atlantic coast, in the Midwest and South, and in the Gulf and Central Plains regions.
Here’s what the Electric Highway Coalition’s network will look like:
Image: TVA
The Electric…
Rivian planning to manufacture solid-state batteries
March 3, 2021
Recent job posts on Rivian’s career page reveal the automaker is searching for manufacturing engineers to develop solid-state batteries. The five positions currently listed are all for Rivian’s Palo Alto facility in California. Solid-state batteries have been touted for…
Honda, Yamaha, KTM, and Piaggio cooperating on swappable batteries for electric motorbikes
March 2, 2021
Honda, Yamaha, KTM, and Piaggio have inked a deal to work together on developing swappable batteries for light electric vehicles such as electric motorcycles and scooters.
The four electric motorbike manufacturers have announced the establishment of a new consortium to…
Volvo plans to only sell electric cars by 2030, says internal combustion engine has no future
March 2, 2021
The Swedish automaker Volvo announced today its plan to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles, including hybrids, and only sell all-electric cars by the end of the decade.
Several automakers are starting to announce aggressive phase-outs of their gas-powered vehicles.
Volvo has now added itself to that list with a strong announcement that it doesn’t believe in the internal combustion…
Tesla is rumored to be behind a massive new land deal to secure over 100 acres next to its Gigafactory Shanghai in China.
Gigafactory Shanghai has been expanding so fast that Tesla is running out of space to physically grow at the location in the Shanghai free-trade…
A California city moves to ban all new gas stations
March 2, 2021
The Petaluma, California, City Council this week unanimously moved to ban new gas stations, and existing stations won’t be allowed to add new gas pumps – but they can add electric chargers. The council must approve the ban during a second reading in order to make it…
Mining for electric car batteries ‘hundreds of times’ better than petrol car emission cycles
March 2, 2021
A new study did a deep dive into the emissions from the full life cycles, from petroleum extraction to mining, of both electric cars and fossil fuel-powered cars.
The result is unsurprising but needed to dispel misinformation.
One of the oil industry’s favorite ways to try to attack electric cars was to say that they are just as polluting as gas-powered vehicles because they were powered by an…
Elon Musk says that Tesla will launch its subscription service for its Full Self-Driving package within the next three to four months.
Get ready for a high monthly premium, though.
Last year, we reported on indications that Tesla is working on a pay-as-you-go subscription…
Quick Charge Podcast: March 1, 2021
March 2, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
We finally got the chance to get behind the wheel of VW’s ID.4 electric CUV this week. This is 36 hours with the 1st Edition RWD, and it was mostly during a winter snowstorm in New York. But we still had time to give it a proper drive and get some initial thoughts to see if VW has a huge hit on its hands.
VW delivered the cobalt blue version of the ID.4 up my partially plowed driveway about an…
