The electrification of road transport will move into top gear in the second half of the 2020s, thanks to tumbling battery costs and larger-scale manufacturing, with sales of electric cars racing to 28 percent, and those of electric buses to 84 percent, of their respective global markets by 2030. Renewable Energy Magazine provides a news … Continue reading Advance of e-buses will outpace even electric cars →

We definitely don’t need a bell ringer walking in front of every electric vehicle, but we do need to hear them coming (well, for us who are not wearing noise-cancelling headphones as we walk). James Doward writes in The Guardian that from next summer, all new electric vehicles will be required to have sound emitters … Continue reading Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Sounding out electric vehicles →

Zachary Shahan writes on the CleanTechnica website about recent policy changes in Sweden that will encourage more electric vehicles.   New Swedish Car Policies Expected To Boost Electric Car Market Share In Sweden The Swedish government has just proposed a new taxation scheme on light vehicles to go into place on the first of July, … Continue reading Encouraging developments in Sweden to promote electric vehicles →

Interest in electric vehicles has increased sharply in recent years but Martin Brueckner, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability at Australia’s Murdoch University argues in an article on The Conversation website that the overall sustainability of electric vehicles is far from clear and the entire transport paradigm may need to be rethought.   Not so fast: why … Continue reading The overall sustainability of electric vehicles is far from clear →

Steve Hanley writes on the CleanTechnica website about efforts to show how bad electric vehicles are for the environment when all elements are included. What are your views?   Electric Car Myth Buster — Efficiency The merchants of doubt paid for by the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry are out in full force, … Continue reading Is there a disinformation campaign against electric vehicles? →

The energy transition covers many aspects. The rise of electric vehicles has an impact in many ways. Jonathan Soble writes in the New York Times about Japan’s concerns to be ready.   As Electric Cars’ Prospects Brighten, Japan Fears Being Left Behind At a factory near the base of Mount Fuji, workers painstakingly assemble transmissions … Continue reading Japan is scrambling to ensure it has a future in an electric-car world →

Increasingly we are reading about the bright future for electric cars. Electric vehicles have only a tiny market share, but the auto industry is betting billions that they will soon be as cheap as conventional cars. Jack Ewing gives a good account in the New York Times of the next steps that are needed.   … Continue reading Issues that need addressing before full roll out of electric cars →

There certainly is a lot written about the age of the electric vehicle. Yet, they still represent such a small share of total cars sold. That does not come as a surprise, given the charging infrastructure needed and the continuing developments of the vehicles and batteries. Jonn Axsen, Associate Professor of Sustainable Transportation at Simon … Continue reading The challenge to increase the number of electric vehicles →