Electric Car

Global Plug-in car sales in 2021: BEVs: about 4.6 million (up about 115% year-over-year) and 6.1% share PHEVs: about 1.9 million (up about 93% year-over-year) and 2.9% share Total: 6,495,388 (up 108% year-over-year) and 9% share Tesla had 20.3% of the global BEV market in 2021. All-electric (BEV) car sales…

BYD published their 314 page 2021 annual report and it shows lower net profits and still about 40% revenue from mobile phones and not electric cars or batteries. The mobile phone business increased from 38% to 40.5%. Overseas (non-China) business decreased from 38% to 30%. Tesla had net income of…

One of the biggest barriers to getting an electric car is the amount of time it takes to charge the battery. But that could be about to change, thanks to quantum technology. Scientists have created a new method to cut the time it takes to charge electric cars to just…

By Adam Vaughan There are twice as many electric cars for each public charger in the UK now than 12 months ago, according to the SMMT, an automotive trade body Alamy Stock Photo This is Fix the Planet, the weekly climate change newsletter that reminds you there are reasons for…

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has said that manufacturing Tesla in China and selling in India is not a digestible concept to all of us, as Elon Musk continues to seek tax rebates to sell his electric car in the country. In a media interview, Gadkari…

Toyota's at least considering a world with manually shifted EVs, and that's cool. Toyota I love a manual transmission. It's an excellent way to keep my brain engaged when I'm stuck in boring traffic, and it's a lot of fun on a spirited drive. Unfortunately, most Americans either disagree with…

Tesla's Elon Musk. Photo: Gallo Images/Alamy. California’s civil rights regulator said it’s suing Tesla for racial discrimination after finding widespread harassment of black workers at the electric car-maker’s factory near San Francisco. The state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing received complaints from hundreds of workers and “found evidence that…

Issam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, has been solving heat-related emergencies for 37 years. They often follow a pattern. Anyone who dreams up a supercomputer, or new avionics for a fighter jet, will eventually face the same problem: Fancy electronics, packed with trillions of transistors, generate…

Detroit is building a road that can charge electric vehicles with the help of technology from Israeli startup Electreon. It will be the first project of its kind in the U.S. CBS News MoneyWatch reporter Khristopher Brooks joins CBS News to explain how the technology works and what it will…

Cars Battery-powered vehicles are on the rise and will enter the mainstream this year as automakers start selling electric pickup trucks. The branding n the front end of the Lucid Air near Bear Mountain, N.Y., Dec. 28, 2021. Bryan Derballa/The New York Times By Jack Ewing and Neal E. Boudette,…