Electric Car

Photo: RNZ / Unsplash New Zealand has reached a "tipping point" with more people switching to electric cars and solar as Meridian Energy's weekly app registrations increase by 214 percent, it says. Rising oil prices have put pressure on prices across New Zealand, pushing an upward trend and interest in…

PHILLIPS COUNTY, Mont.—The American buffalo—those ornery, hairy prairie beasts that reign as the official mammal of the United States—have joined wind turbines, electric cars and climate researchers in the cross hairs of the Trump administration. Acceding to anti-bison grumbling from cattle ranchers and Republican politicians in Montana, Interior Secretary Doug…

 Timothée Chalamet faced yet another embarrassing moment on Saturday, when his high-end Lucid Air electric car was towed from his Beverly Hills home. Just weeks after the actor, 30, endured a crushing defeat at the Oscars - where Marty Supreme failed to win a single award out of nine nominations…

Skoda is preparing to launch its largest electric car to date, as the upcoming Peaq SUV moves closer to production. The new model, first previewed as the Vision 7S concept in 2022, will sit at the top of Skoda’s electric range above the Enyaq and Elroq. It will be offered…

Volkswagen announced that electric cars with gasoline engines, range extenders, would come to Europe, but nothing of the sort happened. Volkswagen will not produce electric cars with gasoline engines for the European market. The executive director of the car brand, Thomas Schaefer, clearly indicated this in a new interview. He…

3alexd/Getty Images Compared to standard gasoline-powered vehicles, electric vehicles (EVs) suffer from higher retail prices when new and higher depreciation on the resale market, and the latter seems to have gotten even worse after the federal EV tax credit ended in 2025. EV technology has advanced in recent years with EVs that…

When Nikolai Nedeljko bought his electric car two years ago, he had the benefit of a 5,000-euro subsidy from the Serbian state. However, he also had to fork out for a charger in his garage, because there are so few on the roads. Even now, travelling in an EV in…

Navigation for News Categories Meridian said some customer plans were changing. Photo: Some Meridian customers have complained of increases in the cost of the power they use for their electric vehicles - but interest in electric cars overall is booming. A number of EV owners have taken to social media…

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Electric vehicles (EVs) can effectively serve as mobile batteries that provide energy to the power grid when not being driven, improving the reliability of the grid, serving as a source of backup power and potentially reducing energy and EV ownership costs. So why have so few places adopted the vehicle-to-grid…