Quentin Willson’s 250-Mile Electric Car Range Claim Looks A Stretch. Former motoring journalist and electric car campaigner Quentin Willson was interviewed by Nigel Farage on GBNews and claimed that a 250-mile round trip in an electric car nowadays would be no problem. In my experience that isn’t very likely, especially if high-speed motorway driving accounted […]
Booming Electric Car Sales In Europe May Soon Face A Reality Check. “A hole will form in the range of European carmakers, with no one producing small vehicles. This may turn out to be an incentive for the development of non-European carmakers in Europe, in particular Chinese carmakers” Sales of battery electric cars in Europe […]
BMW Electric Strategy Under The Microscope As i4 Sedan, iX SUV Hit Dealerships. “the BMW iX only achieved 66% of the specified WLTP range. With the Tesla Model Y Long Range it is 85%. This underlines the shortcomings of the latest BMW generation as a hybrid platform. Tesla, Porsche, Mercedes, but also Chinese like NIO […]
Citroen Unveils Electric Buggy Concept Based On the Ami City Car. “It looks to me as though it could be a perfect golf buggy” Citroen’s cut little Ami electric runabout doesn’t quite fill the yawning gap in the European market which calls for a cheap as chips electric city car, but its Buggy Concept will […]
Investors Happy As Toyota Accelerates Electric Plans. “We want to leave all people with a choice, and rather than where or what we will focus on, we will wait a little longer until we understand where the market is going. If we provide the correct solution for the average person we won’t have the correct […]
Electric Car Sales Growth In Europe Will Slow Before Spurting Again. “EV profitability does not yet match that of ICE and earnings and cash flows will remain burdened by further heavy technology investments over the next several years” Sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are exploding in Western Europe, but growth will slow over the […]
Electric Car Tests – range claims vs range outcomes. www.wintonsworld.com data (updated data now includes Ford Mach E, Renault Zoe, Nissan Leaf, Fiat 500 E) *Tesla doesn’t reveal battery capacity Expect town and country driving to match this range. This data, from my reviews on Wintonsworld shows relentlessly misleading claims of battery range capacity, while the […]
Solid-State Batteries Promise Massive Boost To Electric Car Popularity, But Technical Mountains Must Be Scaled First. Solid state battery technology should be the knight in shining armor for the electric car revolution, as it steps in to slash the cost of batteries and make living with a plug-in car just like an internal combustion engine […]
Insistence Electric Cars Must Win Risks Wasting Valuable ICE Technology. “In other words, the future is eclectic” Governments declaring they know best and nominating electric cars alone to lead the race to be green are in danger of wasting valuable and proven resources provided by internal combustion engines (ICE) linked to batteries, and hybrid technology […]
Lithium Shortage May Stall Electric Car Revolution. “They ignore the trillion-ton elephant in the room. Carbon-free power and gasoline-free transportation cannot exist without mining an absurd amount of lithium” The electric car revolution will stall in the West if supplies of crucial battery elements like lithium fail to keep up with the forecast huge increase […]
