145 ARTICLES
“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles” (Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco)
5 May 2024, 22:30 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) publishes monthly European passenger car registration statistics. Starting from 2022, these statistics became more relevant because they take into account the major powertrain types. I ...
3 May 2024, 10:20 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The Beijing Motor Show this year was pretty interesting in terms of surprises, almost like the other more popular European and American auto shows used to be back in the (good ol') days. As usual, concept cars were the salt and pepper. But I t...
1 May 2024, 05:08 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / History is such a b*tch sometimes. May 1 became International Workers' Day because of a brutal Chicago event in the late 1800s. But today, the US celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September, while "May Day" has become one o...
20 Apr 2024, 10:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / While everybody complains these days that "EV sales cooled down," plug-in vehicle sales are far from the predicted doom. Millions of new EVs and plug-in hybrids are added to the global fleet every year, so the charging needs to grow quick...
7 Apr 2024, 16:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Captain Obvious must be proud: it took half a decade to actually measure CO2 emissions to conclude that "the interannual trend in urban CO2 emissions" decreased mainly due to passenger vehicle electrification. That's right, UC Berkle...
30 Mar 2024, 14:38 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It was darn time for the authorities to conduct real-world measurements on the actual consumption and emissions of the so-called "electrified cars" that also use an internal combustion engine. I really hope the popular wisdom will finally...
22 Mar 2024, 21:46 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / This March, the Biden-Harris Administration released another strategy to decarbonize the transportation sector: the National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy's goal is to set the stage for fully zero-emission trucking by 2040. However, ...
17 Mar 2024, 15:06 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / "Idiocracy" was a satirical SF movie that tried to imagine American society 500 years from now in the worst-case scenario of stupidity prevailing over time. "Inception" was an original SF movie exploring extreme ways to manipula...
9 Mar 2024, 21:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / America's public is the biggest fan of too-big and too-heavy passenger cars, and this trend spreads around the world at a fast pace. Apart from the psychological "Mine is bigger!" argument, some other factors explain why cars will on...
3 Mar 2024, 08:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Everybody's talking these days about EV sales cooling down. Some even predict an EV market crash, ignoring the hundreds of billions of dollars invested by the industry in battery technology and the fast pace of improvements. While it's tr...
25 Feb 2024, 14:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Most of the numbers are on, and it looks like the passenger car sales topped around 90 million units globally. This marks a 15% increase compared to the pandemic hit in 2020, but it's still 5% under the 2017 level. But what do all these number...
17 Feb 2024, 10:02 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / So, do you happen to be able to afford at least $1.5 million (or €1.4 million) for this street-legal rally-raid hypertruck? It comes from California-based Scarbo Vintage company, and yes, you can drive it on any American road or highway. Bonus...
10 Feb 2024, 19:36 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / On Sunday, February 4, in the Paris referendum, more than half of the voters basically chose to "tax the rich" because, according to officials, SUVs and other large and heavy sedans are used mainly by the richest. While it may look like s...
4 Feb 2024, 13:58 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Just a few days ago, Ethiopia's Ministry of Transport and Logistics announced that only electric vehicles will be allowed to be imported into the country. The measure is part of a "logistics master plan" – if this rings a bell,...
28 Jan 2024, 00:48 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It may be a surprise that an electrohead like me is not trying to convince people that EVs' range issues are not a big deal. On the contrary, in the first part of this editorial, I even used the storytelling method to emphasize this misconcept...
27 Jan 2024, 10:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Wait a minute, isn't 2023 the first year when a full-battery electric car became the best-selling car in the world? Tesla Model Y outperformed the Toyota RAV4 and Toyota Corolla by a pretty large margin, while the total number of EVs sold last...
21 Jan 2024, 12:50 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / According to the UN's Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction, these two sectors combined account for more than a third of global CO2 emissions. A big chunk is because all the heavy machinery needed is powered almost exclusively by...
14 Jan 2024, 16:58 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / There are a billion and a half road vehicles worldwide, with more than 90% of them using oil-based fuels, and by the half of this century, their number will double. How many of them will be "Zero Emission Vehicles" in less than thirty yea...
7 Jan 2024, 14:46 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It's not the first study of this kind, but the news is that researchers calculated the TCO specifically for 14 American cities. So, if you're a resident in one of these cities, you can make a more informed decision on buying a new electri...
29 Dec 2023, 15:18 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In 2023, the US and European car industries warned about the imminent influx of cheap Chinese electric cars flooding Western markets. Maybe that's why the Chinese car industry seeks to keep momentum from the beginning of 2024, announcing anoth...