Electric Car

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.…

King Charles orders British-made Lotus Eletre electric car, sparking speculation he will ditch the Bentley State limousine. Charles intends to use his top-spec Lotus Eletre Electric Car as a personal runaround on one of his country estates. Like the two Bentley State limousines, the new Lotus Eletre will be painted…

An Enervis study commissioned by Green Planet Energy sees great potential for reducing CO2 emissions and avoiding peak feed-in times in intelligent control, particularly in adapting to available PV power. Not only users of electric cars and heat pumps could benefit from this, but also all other electricity customers –…

A machinist debugs humanoid robots at Zhongguancun International Innovation Center, venue for the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) Annual Conference, in Beijing, capital of China, March 27, 2025. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong) HANGZHOU, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Inside Zeekr's humming, 5G-enabled electric car factory in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, a…

Tsvetana Paraskova Tsvetana is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing for news outlets such as iNVEZZ and SeeNews.  More Info Premium Content By Tsvetana Paraskova - May 15, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT While the U.S. focuses on sourcing critical minerals, China maintains overwhelming control of…

Looking at the current crop of electric cars, one thing immediately stands out — they are incredibly quick off the line. We'll probably never see a gas-powered car be quicker than an EV; The Rimac Nevera hypercar, for example, reaches 62 mph (100 km/h) in a mind-numbing 1.81 seconds. Even…

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