Cleantech & EV’s

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…

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…

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…

Tesla was rumored to be going back into the battery swap business, this time in China, but the automaker is now denying the report and took a jab at NIO in the process. In 2014, Tesla demonstrated the ability to quickly and automatically swap battery packs in Model S and Model X vehicles. The technology was touted as a faster way to get a fully charged battery pack and an alternative to DC fast…