Electric Car

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In January, the Norwegian Road Federation released a statistic that turned heads inside transportation and climate circles: Almost 90 percent of new cars sold in Norway the previous year were fully electric. By the end of this…

With all that said, my family and I are year-round riders and live in Portland, Oregon. I live in terror that something will happen to my kids on my bike and there have been multiple times on rainy winters on hills when I have forced my much spouse to switch…

A tug has reached the Morning Midas, six days after a presumed battery fire broke out, causing the crew to abandon ship. The vessel, operated by the British firm Zodiac Marine, was transporting 3,000 cars – 800 of them electric – from China to Mexico on June 3, when the…

Car manufacturers are constantly improving the batteries of electric cars. Among the leaders in the electrification of the vehicle fleet is Porsche, which analyzes and tests the batteries of its models at a specialized center in Weissach. All electric cars have a battery management system that not only controls the…

US Coast Guard and civilian vessels have rescued 22 sailors off the coast of Alaska after some of the electric cars they were transporting caught fire. The good ship Morning Midas - a roll-on, roll-off ferry that was delivering 3,000 vehicles from Yantai, China, to Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico - is…

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It’s not a Toyota, Nissan, or a Honda, but this new mini EV is already a sensation. The mibot mini EV costs just ¥1 million ($7,000), or about half the price of Nissan’s Sakura, the top-selling EV in Japan. Can the $7,000 mini EV jumpstart sales in Japan? Japanese startup,…

Queen Rania of Jordan is one of many Jordanians who drive an electric car. (Photo by JAMAL ... More NASRALLAH/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Norway has the highest share of electric cars sales in the world, with the Middle Eastern country of Jordan as a surprising second…

A type of electric car battery based on iron and phosphorus that poses less of a threat to tropical forests is rapidly replacing batteries reliant on cobalt and nickel, recent data shows. According to a report on energy transition minerals from the International Energy Agency (IEA) this month, in 2020,…

Raise your hand if you saw this coming. After exiting the US a couple of years ago, the purely electric MX-30 is also dead in Europe (including the UK). We noticed the model’s absence from several configurators across the Old Continent, so we contacted Mazda to find out what’s happening.…