145 ARTICLES
“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles” (Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco)
10 Feb 2023, 19:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The Argonne National Laboratory last year updated a 2016 cradle-to-grave lifecycle analysis on the U.S. light-duty vehicle-fuel pathways, namely sedans, and SUVs. While batteries are clearly the best performers in slashing GHG emissions, e-fuels sh...
6 Feb 2023, 10:31 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Do you get it? The title, I mean. I think you do. You should, because it’s the new fast language that our brain is forced to accept. If you don’t understand what these groups of three capital letters mean… then you’re just ...
5 Feb 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Tesla Cybertruk is not the first car in the world to feature four-wheel steering. It’s not even the first electric pick-up to steer all four wheels, as Hummer EV1 is already doing it. But Cybertruck surely is the first out-of-this-world elect...
5 Feb 2023, 13:28 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / A recent EIA study – EIA is the U.S. Energy Information Administration, so this is solid information – forecasts that renewable diesel production in the U.S. could more than double through 2025. So, is it good news, or should we worry a...
4 Feb 2023, 15:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It took several years for Tesla to finally put its Tesla Semi into mass production. While it is certainly the most appealing long-haul electric truck at the moment, it is not the first of its kind on the road. Volvo, Daimler, Renault, and others ha...
4 Feb 2023, 13:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Toyota Motor Corporation sold 10.5 million vehicles globally in 2022, including Lexus and Daihatsu passenger cars, but also Hino Motors buses and heavy-duty vehicles. As you know, Toyota is not a fan of EVs, so it’s no wonder it only sold abo...
3 Feb 2023, 21:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Sourcing clean hydrogen from water (H2O) only needs splitting the two atoms of hydrogen from the oxygen one. It turns out this is far from a simple task. It’s an energy-intensive process and we still haven’t figured out how to make it e...
3 Feb 2023, 10:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / After more than a century and a half of development and improvements, the internal combustion engine’s thermal efficiency is still a joke compared to electric motors. That’s because of the more complex design of the ICE, and the high te...
29 Jan 2023, 15:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Sono Motors, Lightyear, Aptera. These start-ups have already booked tens of thousands of pre-orders for their so-called “solar cars”. But is the solar car for the masses really achievable? Almost every year I have friends asking me s...
29 Jan 2023, 09:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Audi is part of the Volkswagen Group, and it shares a lot of its models’ platforms with “cousins” from Porsche and Volkswagen. For instance, Audi Q7/Q8 has the same underpinnings as Porsche Cayenne and VW Touareg. But now a new of...
28 Jan 2023, 16:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Fossil fuels industry - you can’t live with it, and you can’t live without it. As we are slowly shifting to a hydrogen-based economy, it seems that lately, ammonia is the perfect answer to this hopeless ongoing conflict. At least this i...
28 Jan 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Converting a used car into an EV would make sense if the retrofit kit would be affordable. But when your used car is worth less or much less than the €10,000 (about $10,900) mark, and it costs you at least that amount of money to transform it ...
27 Jan 2023, 12:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Almost 300 million vehicles are roaming the roads of America, most of which are propelled by internal combustion engines. No problem, we’ll replace them with EVs, and this way we’ll slash emissions and pollutants by half, right? Not so ...
27 Jan 2023, 00:44 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / This piece-of-motoring-art Mercedes-Benz SLR Stirling Moss looks like a four-wheeled gizmo of the 21st Century, but it really is a tribute to the winner of the famous Mille Miglia race in 1955. That was Sir Stirling Moss, the biggest F1 rival...
22 Jan 2023, 13:18 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / NASCAR’s spectacular accidents are sort of a trademark for its racing series. And make no mistake, those flames need firefighters. Everybody wants a big show nowadays but racing also needs to be as safe as possible. And 2023 is the year of an...
22 Jan 2023, 10:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In 2015, an investigation carried out by journalists revealed that oil company Exxon had known since the ‘70s that using fossil fuels could lead to a dramatic climate change scenario by 2050. Today #ExxonKnew activism movement is widespread, ...
21 Jan 2023, 18:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / When you’re a teenager or even an only 11 or 12-year-old kid, stealing a car might seem like fun if it’s not perceived as a wrongdoing. That’s the case of several videos on TikTok with tens of millions of views of teenagers explai...
21 Jan 2023, 16:44 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Your gasoline car’s tank and your electric car’s battery are energy storage devices. The hydropower lake and the mountains of coal waiting to be burned in a power plant are sort of energy storage forms. Unfortunately, the electrical gri...
20 Jan 2023, 17:44 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The European auto industry is struggling to make the transition to zero-emissions vehicles, while a flock of Chinese carmakers is already invading UE’s markets with more affordable electric cars. It’s a silent war out there and every pa...
20 Jan 2023, 07:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Carmakers, tech companies, and startups are pouring billions into self-driving technology. It’s very promising, but there are still many obstacles to pass. One of them is the carbon footprint of autonomous cars’ computers. Today, inf...