#electric-vehicle

#electric-vehicle

Just as it did for nearly every facet of the global economy, the pandemic plunged Canada's new car market into upheaval, throwing supply and demand completely out of whack.Factory shutdowns due to COVID-19 made for widespread shortages of parts, filtering down to a historic lack of finished vehicles for sale on dealer lots.

Products ranging from beauty gadgets to heaters sold though online marketplaces have failed to meet safety standards amid concerns sellers are flooding the market with cheap, poor-quality electricals.One electric vehicle (EV) charging cable bought from eBay presented a risk of electric shock and overheating when it was tested by a specialist laboratory, Electrical Safety First (ESF) said.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The growing number of electric vehicle charge points and outdoor restaurant tables is making it harder for disabled people to move around their communities, according to a new report.

The shift to electric car production has continued, figures show.The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reported that combined battery electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid electric vehicle production increased by almost 50% last month compared with a year ago.The total of 28,329 represented more than four in every 10 cars made in January, a near-record monthly share.

A suspected parcel thief has been arrested after a huge pile reported stolen from one of Evri's delivery depots were found fly-tipped in woods.Large sacks full of deliveries were found dumped in woods in the Luton area of Chatham, Kent.A shocked local resident made the discovery while out walking on Ash Tree Lane on 4 December and last week Evri, formerly known as Hermes, apologised to affected customers and launched an investigation.

If you've been thinking about getting an electric vehicle (EV), clearly there's never been better time to get one.First of all, the technology has come out of its adolescence and is more efficient, obviously higher tech, requires less maintenance, and it could be argued are now way more reliable than its gas-powered counterparts.

Ford Motor is joining Tesla in cutting the starting prices of its popular electric vehicles (EVs) by thousands of dollars.According to , Ford Motors has lowered prices for its electric Mustang Mach-E (and Fatherly's 2021 Car of The Year) by up to $4,000.With the price adjustments, the starting price of the Mach-E will now fall between $42,995 and $59,995.

The electric vehicle market share has grown greatly over the past few years.However, despite the rise in the adoption of EVs nationwide, not all cities are built as well for EVs as they are for gas cars - in some places, public EV chargers can be far and few between, unlike gas stations that populate every corner.

In California, most car trips are less than ten miles long - so it's no wonder that e-bikes are emerging as a perfect and climate-friendly alternative for many of those trips.An e-bike journey can reduce urban congestion and increase joy, all while helping California meet our climate goals.But many are now asking how to regulate this new form of mobility.

In 2022, Consolidated Edison (ConEd) customers installed a record number of solar arrays on the rooftops of their businesses and homes, according to the energy giant.Over 9,600 solar projects were completed throughout Westchester County and the five boroughs of New York City, ConEd announced this week.

At CES 2023 Peugeot unveiled an electric vehicle projecting its vision of what future cars will be like.While we are unlikely to see an exact road-legal version by the manufacturer anytime soon, it will definitely inspire future technologies.That said, the aesthetics in the 2025 models could have a likeliness to the Peugeot Inception EV concept.

* By Kristina Monllos



On Tuesday May 23rd, HBOMax will rebrand and officially drop "HBO" from its name to become simply "Max."Warner-Discovery is using digital, social, out-of-home, radio and linear TV as well as the company's owned and operated channels to tout the rollout of Max.

Automaker Hyundai's U.K. campaign was released in January to put the correctly pronounced brand's name on the lips of the public, nearly tripling its brand consideration score in the process.According to the research company YouGov, the campaign, created to drive awareness of how to correctly pronounce the name of the South Korean motor company, drove the highest increase in word of mouth during the first month of the year.

The list of winners of the 2022 Digiday Marketing and Advertising Awards Europe highlights how companies are leaning on social media and data-based content strategies to drive brand engagement.Sustainability and other meaningful practices remain top priorities for consumers and companies, with many of this year's entrants and subsequent winners striving to show their commitment to overall betterment.

President Emmanuel Macron met billionaire businessman Elon Musk on Monday as part of efforts to convince global business leaders to invest in France.The chief executive of Tesla, Space X, and Twitter is just one of 200 international business leaders who gathered at the "Choose France" event at the Palace of Versailles.

Not long after buying a Ford E-Transit van for his plumbing business last November, Mitch Smedley sat down with some receipts and a calculator to figure out how much the electric vehicle was saving him on fuel expenses.A few minutes of number crunching showed he was spending about $110 to $140 a week on fuel for each of the four older, diesel Transits in his fleet.

Yesterday, the world's largest-ever hydrogen-powered plane took off from an airport in the U.K., made a 10-mile circle in the air, and landed again about 10 minutes later.The plane, a Dornier 228 19-seat turboprop extensively modified by startup ZeroAvia, wasn't exactly a jumbo jet, but it still accounts for a significant step in the nascent world of zero emission flight.

Stonk Wonk
Elon Musk has once again sold a mindboggling cache of Tesla stock - even as the electric vehicle maker's stock value continues a  precipitous decline.As the Wall Street Journal reports, Musk quietly sold off a whopping 22 million Tesla shares - worth about $3.5 billion - over a three-day period this week, bringing the total amount he's unloaded since April to just under $23 billion.

DETROIT   Elon Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of Tesla stock this week, but it wasn't clear where the proceeds were being spent.The Tesla CEO, and new owner of Twitter, sold the shares from Monday through Wednesday, according to a filing posted Wednesday night by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

An e-Golf electric car with the VW logo on a rim is pictured in the German car manufacturer Volkswagen Transparent Factory in Dresden, eastern Germany, in April 2017.Jens Meyer (AP) Volkswagen announced Monday it plans to build a major plant for electric vehicle batteries in Canada.The European automaker said the Volkswagen Group and its battery company PowerCo will establish its first overseas gigafactory for battery cell manufacturing in St. Thomas, in southwestern Ontario.

Renting The 465-unit community will have a fitness center, yoga studio, library, private offices and conference rooms, and more.The former Quincy Medical Center is now the site of Ashlar Park, a 465-unit rental community of five buildings across 15 acres.Located a little more than a half mile from the Red Line, Ashlar Park offers suburban living not far from Boston.

Newly constructed homes in Illinois would be required to include the infrastructure needed for electric vehicle charging stations under a bill now on Gov. J.B. Pritzker's desk.The "Electric Vehicle Charging Act," passed by the state House Thursday on a party-line 69-38 vote after earlier approval by the Senate, requires that new single-family or small multifamily homes offer at least "one EV-capable parking space for each residential unit that has dedicated parking."

First of all, some context.While some of these tricks are completely legal, others may be slightly questionable.Nevertheless, seeing as Spain is the country of roguish picaresca behaviour, we think it's still worth highlighting how drivers in Spain manage to pay less vehicle-related fees and taxes.The Ex-Factory Price is the cost of manufacturing the car, straight out of the factory without any taxes added.

As he gears up for a likely reelection campaign, President Joe Biden on Tuesday will kick off a three-week tour to highlight the impact of his signature legislative accomplishments as the impacts of those laws begin to be felt around the country, according to a White House official.The Invest in America tour will see Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden and nearly a dozen Cabinet members hit more than 20 states including key battleground states like Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania over the next three weeks.

China's Evergrande Group, whose collapse in 2021 sparked China's worst property market crisis on record, has unveiled a multi-billion dollar restructuring plan to make peace with its international creditors.The long-awaited plan could set an important precedence for investors dealing with the growing defaults and restructuring in China's real estate industry.

New York (CNN)Egg prices are still high at the grocery store so plant-based egg alternatives are using this moment to make their case.In some ways, it's been a difficult year for egg alternatives.Retail sales fell 3.4% by unit in the 12 months through January 28 compared to the prior year, per NielsenIQ, though dollar sales went up.

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!GOOD AFTERNOON, PORTLAND!Get ready for an almost balmy day tomorrow with sunny skies and temps that are inching up to... 60 degrees?

Packed with families, car shoppers and car enthusiasts, the biggest auto show in the Midwest came back to life at McCormick Place this weekend.Organizers said ticket sales were up 40% from last year.Darrin Brown, 55, visited the car show from west suburban Montgomery to look at the electric vehicles.

S everal London boroughs have told City Hall they are interested in creating zero emission zones, London's deputy mayor has revealed.The zones, proposed by London mayor Sadiq Khan in his 2018 transport strategy and re-committed to earlier this year, would require all vehicles not capable of operating with zero exhaust emissions to pay road user charges.

SAN JOSE An electric air taxi company has completed a leasing deal in San Jose that will enable the cutting-edge tech firm to soar into a local expansion and hire more workers.Archer Aviation has leased an office and research building in North San Jose that's about a half-mile away from the company's current headquarters in the Bay Area's largest city.

Lewisham Council unveils plan to reimagine the borough's streets (Image: Lewisham Council) Lewisham Council has unveiled proposals to reimagine the borough's roads and streets.The goal of these plans is to reduce air pollution, improve road safety and encourage more people to walk, cycle or use public transport.

SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images
The government has announced enforceable quotas for zero-emission vehicle sales.By 2026, a fifth of all new passenger cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the country will need to be zero-emission models, such as or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles."We're moving forward with a regulated sales target that requires at least 20 percent of new vehicles sold by 2026 to be zero emission, increasing that to 60 percent by 2030 and 100 percent by 2035," Julie Dabrusin, parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, said at a press conference.

Swedish electric motorbike and moped maker, Cake has a very unique take on two-wheelers of the current generation.Be it the Kalk, Ösa, Åik or Makka - each one of them caters to modern city life, serious off-roading skirmishes, or cargo hauling requirements.They all have a compelling enough reason for the buyers to choose them over any other option on the market.

Hit the Brakes
A Tesla driver was left dead and several other people were injured after the electric vehicle rammed into a parked firetruck that had, ironically, been responding to a previous crash.As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, the Model S crash - in which the car failed, for some reason, to slow down enough before hitting the emergency vehicle - occurred just before 4 am on a freeway in Contra Costa County, California, and the firetruck had been parked after responding to an accident that occurred just a half hour prior.

European Union countries have delayed a planned vote next week on the bloc's landmark law to end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in 2035 after Germany questioned its support for the rules.No new date for the vote was given and a spokesperson for Sweden, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, said EU countries' ambassadors would return to the topic in due time.

Hyundai has announced the pricing structure for its next electric vehicle, the Ioniq 6.And it's competitive, especially with the introduction of a smaller battery option.As a result, the curvaceous EV starts at just $41,600, with the price topping out at $56,100.Hyundai says that the $41,600 Ioniq 6 SE RWD standard range, which will use a 53 kWh battery pack for a range of 240 miles (386 km), will be "available in limited quantities this summer," suggesting it might be hard to track one down.

If you build your dreams on wheels, the Boulder should be your trailer of choice on the next outing to a National Park.A four-person teardrop trailer for EVs, the Boulder is more than a comfortable tow-in camper for sleeping: It is also a power backup for your EV.Designed and manufactured by Colorado Teardrops, the Boulder is specifically made with the unpredictable native weather in mind.

After years of insisting that truck buyers are demanding larger and larger vehicles, automakers have seen the light and understand that many people want smaller, more efficient pickups.Maybe.Hot on the heels of the explosive sales of the Ford Maverick and the relatively good sales of the Hyundai Santa Cruz, GM seems to have caught "small trucks with efficient powertrains" fever.

The Boston Globe Chiofaro Co. is soon launching a refresh of the two-tower, 1.8 million-square-foot downtown office complex.For decades, the striking 55-foot atrium at International Place, with water pouring down from a glassed-in domed ceiling, has been a singular feature in downtown Boston's office scene.

AUSTIN, Texas Those driving a plug-in electric vehicle (EV) or a fuel cell vehicle (FCV) may be eligible for a tax credit, but a recent tweet claims one Tesla model will not qualify.The tweet was viewed by more than 10 million and was shared more than 3,000 times.Are some Tesla vehicles excluded in the IRS EV Tax Credit?

Plumstead driver has car seized after not paying more than 100 parking fines.A driver from Plumstead has had their car clamped and seized after not paying more than 100 parking fines.The car was clamped and seized by Bexley Council in Roseacre Road in Welling, on December 7, 2022, after the driver evaded over 100 parking fines for offences in and around Bexleyheath.

Thursday, December 15, 2022 by Kali Bramble
Another South Central Waterfront planned unit development proposal has officially commenced, with real estate development attorney and City Council regular Richard Suttle stopping by the Environmental Commission last week for preliminary negotiations.If realized, the will bulldoze the defunct Texas Department of Transportation headquarters at 200 E. Riverside to make way for two 410-foot high-rises with 1.38 million square feet of office space and 29,318 square feet of ground-floor retail.

Before the unveiling of the Boring, a modified Tesla Model X is driven into the tunnel entry.... [+]
AFP via Getty Images  I'd like to build a tunnel from my house to a remote office.It would have been worth the wait, particularly if I could drive 90 miles per hour.No traffic, no stops along the way - just get in my car and Driving.