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…
It is conventional wisdom that large vehicle sales (like pickup trucks, large SUV’s and full size sedans) crash when the price of gasoline spikes. This is an “proof” offered by some on the left that carbon taxes reduce consumption. We wanted to find out if this is true and what 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…
Many people fear this technology but Harvard University’s David Keith explain how Solar Geoengineering may REDUCE global warming like volcano’s do. Fareed Zakaria interviews Keith on the fascinating idea that humans may be able to intentionally create volcano like events and systems to block the sun and cool the planet. 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…
“Grid Parity” is the term used in the energy sector to describe the cost of adding electricity into power distribution systems (high voltage wires – aka ‘The Grid’) as the same for different methods of producing electricity. It is important to note that the cost has to be the true, Read more…
The year 2010 was not that long ago. The US housing bubble and subsequent global economic collapse of 2008 resulted in governments pouring billions into the projects to get the economy moving. A notable amount went in wind and solar. In the United States, then President Obama announced $100 Billion 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…