145 ARTICLES
“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles” (Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco)
25 Mar 2023, 17:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / A recent MIT study rings the bells of strategic thinking and planning. According to the researchers, efficiently placed charging points and carefully chosen periods for charging the EVs could have a great positive impact. For instance, there wouldn...
25 Mar 2023, 11:42 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / “The size does matter” states Green NCAP referring to cars. If the car industry is to continue the SUV trend, with bigger and, most importantly, heavier cars, this will only lead to bigger environmental problems. More greenhouse gas emi...
24 Mar 2023, 20:42 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Many drivers still don’t understand the big deal with Big Data in the car industry. But sometimes things become clear, and suddenly in-car cloud services could save money or even lives. Skoda UK has an excellent example of how helpful Skoda C...
24 Mar 2023, 10:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Electroheads are probably eager for the release of the autobiographical movie of Tesla’s owner, “the real Ironman” as American media once called Elon Musk. Sorry, but you’ll have to wait for a little. This piece is not about...
19 Mar 2023, 14:41 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / There’s an ongoing battle for governmental funds and investors’ money between the proponents of business-as-usual fueling infrastructure and those of electromobility charging networks. But I’m afraid the angle of the debate is the...
19 Mar 2023, 10:09 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / You can better understand why ditching fossil fuels is so important thanks to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and its visual flow charts. They are also simple tools for debunking the myth of the transportation sector being much less poll...
18 Mar 2023, 16:34 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Did you know that there are excavators out there that rely on telescopic and tilting booms instead of conventional knuckle booms? The American manufacturer Gradall Industries is making this kind of weird machinery. And now it partnered with Volvo P...
18 Mar 2023, 10:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Every carmaker is praised by the crowds when a new concept car emerges. But what about construction vehicle manufacturers? Are they capable to surprise us the same way? Bobcat hopes so. This news should be about the world’s first all-elect...
17 Mar 2023, 10:34 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The race for electric passenger cars with bigger batteries and longer ranges is fierce. In the shadows, the same competition is emerging in the e-bike world. Well, now, is a more-than-200-mile-range e-bike an overkill? Does it really make sense? ...
17 Mar 2023, 07:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / There’s no secret that Lexus NX is Toyota RAV4’s posh sibling. And now the prices make it clear that NX is playing in the compact luxury league. Achtung! This is the Germans’ playground, where the Audi Q5, BMW X3, or Mercedes-Benz...
12 Mar 2023, 17:28 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Out of nowhere, this report from Kayrros – a company that I have never heard of, so it’s something veeeery suspicious about it – is warning us against so-called “super-emitting methane leaks.” If it’s methane, th...
12 Mar 2023, 13:52 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Elon’s ‘secret master plan’ hit two important milestones in 2022. Firstly, battery-electric vehicles sold in the U.S. passed the critical 5% of the overall new car market. This is half of the theoretical critical mass needed for a...
11 Mar 2023, 17:37 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The new generation GLC Coupe will use a well-known recipe: chop the compact GLC SUV and make it look more like a high-ground four-door-coupe-ish. The people will love it because it's a hot trend. It doesn't matter that it will be less roo...
11 Mar 2023, 17:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Blaming the U.S. for luring many battery manufacturers from Europe is more like a lousy excuse. Almost a year after the Inflation Reduction Act came into effect in the United States, the EU Commission will respond with the new Net Zero Industrial A...
10 Mar 2023, 16:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In December 2022, SAE International published the first standardization guidelines for wireless power transfer up to 500 kW power, aimed at heavy-duty vehicles. A few months later, Chalmers University in Sweden has already developed a high-power in...
10 Mar 2023, 09:52 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Just like in the story with the boy and the wolf, the ‘Tesla-killer’ is no longer an exciting collocation. But in China, it looks like Tesla Model 3 is finally getting some shivers in the spine. That’s because Toyota bZ3, co-devel...
5 Mar 2023, 20:17 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Big changes face big opposition. And ditching fossil fuels is surely going to change our societybig time. In theory, it’s a change for the better. But in the process, some interest groups are poised to set the world on fire if their privilege...
5 Mar 2023, 16:49 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / As you know, hydrogen is touted by Big Oil as the zero-emissions technology we should bet on in the long run. Now, China brags it’s taking the lead in terms of behemoth renewable H2 projects. However, projections show that China won’t j...
5 Mar 2023, 09:31 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Building towers for wind turbines 10 times faster and up to twice as tall as today’s conventional technology is something for prime-time news. The new technology can help speed up the deployment of new wind farm projects, on- and offshore. Th...
4 Mar 2023, 10:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Elon Musk should be proud of Twitter because it’s the first social media to release videos featuring a sort of drag race between the most weird-looking Teslas: the Cybertruck electric pickup truck and the Semi electric freight tractor. Tw...