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“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles” (Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco)
22 Mar 2024, 21:46 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / This March, the Biden-Harris Administration released another strategy to decarbonize the transportation sector: the National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy's goal is to set the stage for fully zero-emission trucking by 2040. However, ...
17 Mar 2024, 15:06 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / "Idiocracy" was a satirical SF movie that tried to imagine American society 500 years from now in the worst-case scenario of stupidity prevailing over time. "Inception" was an original SF movie exploring extreme ways to manipula...
9 Mar 2024, 21:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / America's public is the biggest fan of too-big and too-heavy passenger cars, and this trend spreads around the world at a fast pace. Apart from the psychological "Mine is bigger!" argument, some other factors explain why cars will on...
3 Mar 2024, 08:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Everybody's talking these days about EV sales cooling down. Some even predict an EV market crash, ignoring the hundreds of billions of dollars invested by the industry in battery technology and the fast pace of improvements. While it's tr...
25 Feb 2024, 14:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Most of the numbers are on, and it looks like the passenger car sales topped around 90 million units globally. This marks a 15% increase compared to the pandemic hit in 2020, but it's still 5% under the 2017 level. But what do all these number...
17 Feb 2024, 10:02 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / So, do you happen to be able to afford at least $1.5 million (or €1.4 million) for this street-legal rally-raid hypertruck? It comes from California-based Scarbo Vintage company, and yes, you can drive it on any American road or highway. Bonus...
10 Feb 2024, 19:36 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / On Sunday, February 4, in the Paris referendum, more than half of the voters basically chose to "tax the rich" because, according to officials, SUVs and other large and heavy sedans are used mainly by the richest. While it may look like s...
4 Feb 2024, 13:58 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Just a few days ago, Ethiopia's Ministry of Transport and Logistics announced that only electric vehicles will be allowed to be imported into the country. The measure is part of a "logistics master plan" – if this rings a bell,...
28 Jan 2024, 00:48 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It may be a surprise that an electrohead like me is not trying to convince people that EVs' range issues are not a big deal. On the contrary, in the first part of this editorial, I even used the storytelling method to emphasize this misconcept...
27 Jan 2024, 10:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Wait a minute, isn't 2023 the first year when a full-battery electric car became the best-selling car in the world? Tesla Model Y outperformed the Toyota RAV4 and Toyota Corolla by a pretty large margin, while the total number of EVs sold last...
21 Jan 2024, 12:50 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / According to the UN's Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction, these two sectors combined account for more than a third of global CO2 emissions. A big chunk is because all the heavy machinery needed is powered almost exclusively by...
14 Jan 2024, 16:58 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / There are a billion and a half road vehicles worldwide, with more than 90% of them using oil-based fuels, and by the half of this century, their number will double. How many of them will be "Zero Emission Vehicles" in less than thirty yea...
7 Jan 2024, 14:46 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It's not the first study of this kind, but the news is that researchers calculated the TCO specifically for 14 American cities. So, if you're a resident in one of these cities, you can make a more informed decision on buying a new electri...
29 Dec 2023, 15:18 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In 2023, the US and European car industries warned about the imminent influx of cheap Chinese electric cars flooding Western markets. Maybe that's why the Chinese car industry seeks to keep momentum from the beginning of 2024, announcing anoth...
23 Dec 2023, 20:08 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the German government made an unexpected "present" to the car industry this December: it simply stopped the subsidies program for electric cars. It's not a joke or a conspiracy, but a move many analysts fea...
15 Dec 2023, 07:32 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The number one reason for people not buying electric cars is that they are expensive. But what about those who can afford to buy them? What's holding them back? You already guessed: an electric vehicle's range is still worse than a simila...
9 Dec 2023, 02:38 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / What does it sound like when you put in charge of a global climate summit someone who runs one of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world and who inconceivably asserts that "there is no science out there, or no scenario, that says that ...
3 Dec 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / This year's Annual Auto Reliability Survey covered 20 problem areas that consumers gave feedback on based on their experience with their vehicles in the last 12 months. Electric and plug-in hybrid car owners seem to have very high expectations...
1 Dec 2023, 21:42 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Cars getting bigger results in all sorts of problems that customers aren't aware of when deciding to go for a crossover or an SUV instead of a regular passenger car. Moreover, dealers and carmakers' advertising campaigns try to sell you t...
26 Nov 2023, 13:04 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I'm looking out the window at the horrible snowman I made with my little daughter a few hours ago. It's already melting, and the snow layer that formed overnight is thinner by the minute. I predict that by the evening, no sign of snow wil...