Alejandro Agag is Mr. Connected. He grew up internationally, receiving a degree in Economics and Business, then was a successful businessman and influential politician in Spain and in then the European Parliament, before he took over Formula E. In 2002 he married the Spanish Prime Ministers Daughter, Ana Aznar Botella. Read more…
Mate Rimac, is a Croatian born business magnate and entrepreneur who starting building electric supercars… wait for it… wait for it… in his garage at the age of 20 after he blew the gas engine out of a BMW 323i. By 2011 he had 24 patents under his belt and Read more…
We call him the ‘The Wildcard’. He was just pushed out of VW (leaving within a few months) and has an unknown future but one thing is for sure, he will be a player in the EV space. Here is our two minute brief biography video of Thomas Ulbrich: He Read more…
It will come as a shock to no-one that he worked for the VW Group from 2001 through 2006 in top design positions before joining the Volvo group. Here is our two minute brief biography video of Thomas Ingenlath: Thomas Ingenlath, was the Senior Vice President of Design for Volvo, Read more…
Mr. Rawlinson is the slow talking Welsh leader of Lucid Motors which has begun production of its $140,000 Lucid Air EV with tens of thousands of pre-orders already in place. Here is our two minute brief biography video of Peter Rawlinson: Mr. Rawlinson achieved a Bachelor of Science and after Read more…
We show how our Tesla Model 3 Standard Plus with the factory all season tires handles in serious snow conditions. This is in Calgary Alberta Canada a few hours after a serious snow blizzard that dumped about 25 centimeters (10 inches) overnight. This is real world winter driving the two Read more…
Put simply, LiDAR is just radar using a laser light instead of radio waves to scan what is in front of it. LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging and was the next big iteration in remote sensing and imaging thirty years ago. Today it is everything from airplanes, to Read more…
If you have a Tesla EV or are thinking about buying one, you may want to learn about how they operate. Tesla does not do a good job of explaining Tesla features to their owners. We decided to create a series of Tesla #shorts, all less than one minute and Read more…
How is that Commodore 64 working out for ya? The pace of technology change is very fast; last years problems are resolved this year and will get much better two years from now. Apparently this is news to many electric vehicle critics who use old data to promote their own Read more…
We were writing an article dispelling the myth that electric vehicles actually produce more environmental damage than traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles when we realized that the lithium story is too complex for a bullet point. How Is Lithium Produced? Hard Rock: Most lithium is produced from so called Read more…
EV’s and their charging is certainly a misunderstood by many so we put together two, two minute videos to clear up the confusion. The first uses clips from a recent BBC Click episode explain how EV charging works today and second video demonstrates how home charging on a lowly 110 Read more…
If you are new to electric vehicles, the naming of hybrid and full EV’s can be confusing. For that matter, if you are not new to electric vehicles, the naming of hybrid and full EV’s can be confusing. I recently had a discussion with two Tesla owners who had no Read more…
Tesla fan boys and some other industry observers claim that plug-in hybrid vehicles are a needlessly complex and expensive technology and more importantly that consumers will not buy PHEV’s because full battery electric’s (BEV’s) are so much better. In this video Volvo US CEO Anders Gustafsson explains there is a Read more…
We just completed a story on the new 2022 Nissan Pathfinder EV which is really a Nio ES8 which has a fascinating technology called battery swap. The idea is that a semi-permanent kiosk can swap out your drained car battery for a fresh fully charged battery in the same time Read more…