#electric vehicles

#electric vehicles

Fire brigades across the UK are tackling lithium-ion battery fires at a rate of one every five hours, figures show, as fire chiefs warn that public awareness and government regulation have not kept pace with the ubiquity of this new hazard. Lithium-ion batteries power most rechargeable devices including mobile phones, electric toothbrushes, toys and vapes, as well as ebikes, e-scooters and electric vehicles.

The jump marks a 'rebound' following a distorted March, when consumers rushed to beat changes to vehicle taxation. Last year's April figures were unusually weak after buyers accelerated purchases to avoid the expansion of Vehicle Excise Duty (VED).

The hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has been declared dead so many times that the obituary writers have a template saved. Battery EVs won, the infrastructure never materialized, and Toyota's Mirai became the punchline for a technology that arrived a decade too early and never quite recovered.

As Tesla grew, Straubel was the internal champion for building the Supercharger network and the company's own battery factories, not just the cars themselves.

The Tesla Model 3, after 380,000 miles, shows a significant range reduction of 34.2%, yet it still manages to cover 138.3 miles on the highway at 68 mph.