159 ARTICLES
“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles” (Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco)
25 Nov 2023, 17:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I'm slightly confused: is this a sick movie where society must offer sacrifices on the auto industry altar for the greater good? Watering down the proposed stricter Euro 7 norms will result in 7,300 premature deaths and €100 billion in he...
18 Nov 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Tesla missed its Q3 earnings estimate; Volkswagen, Ford, and GM cut EV production; Ford and LG drop plans for one of Europe's largest battery plants. Overall, the industry's stance is primarily pessimistic about the pace of EV adoption in...
22 Oct 2023, 11:43 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I have owned my Spring for almost two years and more than 20,000 km / 12,500 miles. Up to this point, there were more pros than cons. But recently, Stellantis surprised me by announcing the closest contender yet for the electric Dacia. So, natur...
21 Oct 2023, 19:25 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / JD Power has an interesting approach to monitoring consumers' stance towards automated vehicles. The data analytics, software, and consumer intelligence company partnered with the MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium for a unique &...
15 Oct 2023, 07:10 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Hydrogen domination in the heavy transport sector seems to be slimmer by the day. The research company IDTechEx forecasts that road freight electrification is more likely to happen thanks to adopting the Megawatt Charging System (MCS) for electric ...
14 Oct 2023, 10:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In the last two decades, civilized European countries banned smoking in public places because smoking harms everyone's health. The same logic goes for ICE cars, but banning them from urban areas is still unpopular. Stockholm is the first Europ...
8 Oct 2023, 14:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It can recycle waste into valuable graphene; it can regenerate graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries; it can make low-cost hydrogen from plastic. It's the Flash Joule Heating process developed in the early 2020s by chemist James Tour of Ric...
7 Oct 2023, 09:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / You may have heard by now that the German auto industry strongly believes there's no need for retiring internal combustion engines after 2035, despite the EU Commission (and common sense, may I add) requiring their phasing out. E-fuels are the...
30 Sep 2023, 08:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Everybody is aware that battery manufacturing has its toll on the environment. This is the main argument of EV detractors trying to defend internal combustion engines or hydrogen and e-fuels. Now, two more studies pour gasoline on the fire (pun int...
24 Sep 2023, 01:38 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Some agree that batteries are the clear winner in the race against hydrogen technologies, while others think the opposite. There's no such debate among internal combustion engine proponents. Almost all of them believe that replacing fossil-fue...
23 Sep 2023, 08:46 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Maybe you've heard that on September 15, tens of thousands of United Auto Workers members started what the media calls "the biggest strike in the auto industry in the last 90 years." And yes, among other issues, it's got to do w...
17 Sep 2023, 03:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Two years ago, I became one of the owners of the first edition of Dacia Spring. Even now, I'm not sure it was a good decision, but the less-than-9,000-euro sticker (after the government's EV subsidy deduction) made it a must-have offer. H...
16 Sep 2023, 08:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The report compiled by Rocky Mountain Institute and Bezos Earth Fund is basically saying what many others have stated so far: EVs are on the rise, and ICE vehicle sales will soon collapse. But, as with any prediction, there are caveats, uncertainti...
10 Sep 2023, 08:07 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / IAA MOBILITY 2023 wasn't only about electromobility, as we've seen in previous parts of this material. On the three-day conference "E-Fuels – Paving the Way for Clean Mobility," BMW and Mercedes-Benz high-ranking officials...
9 Sep 2023, 19:28 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In the first part of this material, I told you that the Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport in Germany started an international debate on the importance of e-fuels. Ok, Mr. Volker Wissing, let's continue our discussion about e-f...
9 Sep 2023, 05:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The 466 miles / 750 km range Mercedes-Benz CLA electric concept, BMW's Vision Neue Klasse (trolling Merc, huh?), or the hottie VW ID. GTI clearly stole the German show. They try to prove a point: the German car industry is still the best, and ...
1 Sep 2023, 23:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I'm sure that by now, you've seen those social media posts claiming that "the sixteen largest ships emit the same amount of CO2 as all the world's cars" or "a seagoing container vessel is just as polluting as up to 50 ...
26 Aug 2023, 02:42 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / On August 23, India became the first country on Earth to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon's dark side. This is huge, especially because three days earlier, Russia's Luna-25 crashed on the Moon's surface (bummer, this "...
12 Aug 2023, 23:56 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It was around when Tesla emerged as a real menace to the established car industry when I heard for the first time about this "carbon capture" new and promising technology. It wasn't just about getting the surplus of CO2 out of the at...
11 Aug 2023, 23:36 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / 2023 looks like a bad year for the EV world. Several automotive companies hoping to become the next Tesla contender were forced to relinquish their ambitious plans and file for bankruptcy. At the beginning of the year, the promising German start...