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“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles” (Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco)
23 Dec 2023, 20:08 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the German government made an unexpected "present" to the car industry this December: it simply stopped the subsidies program for electric cars. It's not a joke or a conspiracy, but a move many analysts fea...
15 Dec 2023, 07:32 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The number one reason for people not buying electric cars is that they are expensive. But what about those who can afford to buy them? What's holding them back? You already guessed: an electric vehicle's range is still worse than a simila...
9 Dec 2023, 02:38 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / What does it sound like when you put in charge of a global climate summit someone who runs one of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world and who inconceivably asserts that "there is no science out there, or no scenario, that says that ...
3 Dec 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / This year's Annual Auto Reliability Survey covered 20 problem areas that consumers gave feedback on based on their experience with their vehicles in the last 12 months. Electric and plug-in hybrid car owners seem to have very high expectations...
1 Dec 2023, 21:42 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Cars getting bigger results in all sorts of problems that customers aren't aware of when deciding to go for a crossover or an SUV instead of a regular passenger car. Moreover, dealers and carmakers' advertising campaigns try to sell you t...
26 Nov 2023, 13:04 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I'm looking out the window at the horrible snowman I made with my little daughter a few hours ago. It's already melting, and the snow layer that formed overnight is thinner by the minute. I predict that by the evening, no sign of snow wil...
25 Nov 2023, 17:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I'm slightly confused: is this a sick movie where society must offer sacrifices on the auto industry altar for the greater good? Watering down the proposed stricter Euro 7 norms will result in 7,300 premature deaths and €100 billion in he...
18 Nov 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Tesla missed its Q3 earnings estimate; Volkswagen, Ford, and GM cut EV production; Ford and LG drop plans for one of Europe's largest battery plants. Overall, the industry's stance is primarily pessimistic about the pace of EV adoption in...
22 Oct 2023, 11:43 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I have owned my Spring for almost two years and more than 20,000 km / 12,500 miles. Up to this point, there were more pros than cons. But recently, Stellantis surprised me by announcing the closest contender yet for the electric Dacia. So, natur...
21 Oct 2023, 19:25 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / JD Power has an interesting approach to monitoring consumers' stance towards automated vehicles. The data analytics, software, and consumer intelligence company partnered with the MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium for a unique &...
15 Oct 2023, 07:10 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Hydrogen domination in the heavy transport sector seems to be slimmer by the day. The research company IDTechEx forecasts that road freight electrification is more likely to happen thanks to adopting the Megawatt Charging System (MCS) for electric ...
14 Oct 2023, 10:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In the last two decades, civilized European countries banned smoking in public places because smoking harms everyone's health. The same logic goes for ICE cars, but banning them from urban areas is still unpopular. Stockholm is the first Europ...
8 Oct 2023, 14:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It can recycle waste into valuable graphene; it can regenerate graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries; it can make low-cost hydrogen from plastic. It's the Flash Joule Heating process developed in the early 2020s by chemist James Tour of Ric...
7 Oct 2023, 09:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / You may have heard by now that the German auto industry strongly believes there's no need for retiring internal combustion engines after 2035, despite the EU Commission (and common sense, may I add) requiring their phasing out. E-fuels are the...
30 Sep 2023, 08:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Everybody is aware that battery manufacturing has its toll on the environment. This is the main argument of EV detractors trying to defend internal combustion engines or hydrogen and e-fuels. Now, two more studies pour gasoline on the fire (pun int...
24 Sep 2023, 01:38 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Some agree that batteries are the clear winner in the race against hydrogen technologies, while others think the opposite. There's no such debate among internal combustion engine proponents. Almost all of them believe that replacing fossil-fue...
23 Sep 2023, 08:46 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Maybe you've heard that on September 15, tens of thousands of United Auto Workers members started what the media calls "the biggest strike in the auto industry in the last 90 years." And yes, among other issues, it's got to do w...
17 Sep 2023, 03:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Two years ago, I became one of the owners of the first edition of Dacia Spring. Even now, I'm not sure it was a good decision, but the less-than-9,000-euro sticker (after the government's EV subsidy deduction) made it a must-have offer. H...
16 Sep 2023, 08:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The report compiled by Rocky Mountain Institute and Bezos Earth Fund is basically saying what many others have stated so far: EVs are on the rise, and ICE vehicle sales will soon collapse. But, as with any prediction, there are caveats, uncertainti...
10 Sep 2023, 08:07 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / IAA MOBILITY 2023 wasn't only about electromobility, as we've seen in previous parts of this material. On the three-day conference "E-Fuels – Paving the Way for Clean Mobility," BMW and Mercedes-Benz high-ranking officials...