159 ARTICLES
“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles” (Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco)
3 Feb 2023, 21:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Sourcing clean hydrogen from water (H2O) only needs splitting the two atoms of hydrogen from the oxygen one. It turns out this is far from a simple task. It’s an energy-intensive process and we still haven’t figured out how to make it e...
3 Feb 2023, 10:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / After more than a century and a half of development and improvements, the internal combustion engine’s thermal efficiency is still a joke compared to electric motors. That’s because of the more complex design of the ICE, and the high te...
29 Jan 2023, 15:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Sono Motors, Lightyear, Aptera. These start-ups have already booked tens of thousands of pre-orders for their so-called “solar cars”. But is the solar car for the masses really achievable? Almost every year I have friends asking me s...
29 Jan 2023, 09:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Audi is part of the Volkswagen Group, and it shares a lot of its models’ platforms with “cousins” from Porsche and Volkswagen. For instance, Audi Q7/Q8 has the same underpinnings as Porsche Cayenne and VW Touareg. But now a new of...
28 Jan 2023, 16:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Fossil fuels industry - you can’t live with it, and you can’t live without it. As we are slowly shifting to a hydrogen-based economy, it seems that lately, ammonia is the perfect answer to this hopeless ongoing conflict. At least this i...
28 Jan 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Converting a used car into an EV would make sense if the retrofit kit would be affordable. But when your used car is worth less or much less than the €10,000 (about $10,900) mark, and it costs you at least that amount of money to transform it ...
27 Jan 2023, 12:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Almost 300 million vehicles are roaming the roads of America, most of which are propelled by internal combustion engines. No problem, we’ll replace them with EVs, and this way we’ll slash emissions and pollutants by half, right? Not so ...
27 Jan 2023, 00:44 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / This piece-of-motoring-art Mercedes-Benz SLR Stirling Moss looks like a four-wheeled gizmo of the 21st Century, but it really is a tribute to the winner of the famous Mille Miglia race in 1955. That was Sir Stirling Moss, the biggest F1 rival...
22 Jan 2023, 13:18 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / NASCAR’s spectacular accidents are sort of a trademark for its racing series. And make no mistake, those flames need firefighters. Everybody wants a big show nowadays but racing also needs to be as safe as possible. And 2023 is the year of an...
22 Jan 2023, 10:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In 2015, an investigation carried out by journalists revealed that oil company Exxon had known since the ‘70s that using fossil fuels could lead to a dramatic climate change scenario by 2050. Today #ExxonKnew activism movement is widespread, ...
21 Jan 2023, 18:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / When you’re a teenager or even an only 11 or 12-year-old kid, stealing a car might seem like fun if it’s not perceived as a wrongdoing. That’s the case of several videos on TikTok with tens of millions of views of teenagers explai...
21 Jan 2023, 16:44 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Your gasoline car’s tank and your electric car’s battery are energy storage devices. The hydropower lake and the mountains of coal waiting to be burned in a power plant are sort of energy storage forms. Unfortunately, the electrical gri...
20 Jan 2023, 17:44 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The European auto industry is struggling to make the transition to zero-emissions vehicles, while a flock of Chinese carmakers is already invading UE’s markets with more affordable electric cars. It’s a silent war out there and every pa...
20 Jan 2023, 07:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Carmakers, tech companies, and startups are pouring billions into self-driving technology. It’s very promising, but there are still many obstacles to pass. One of them is the carbon footprint of autonomous cars’ computers. Today, inf...
15 Jan 2023, 20:32 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The beginning of this year brings to collectors a rare piece of American grand tourer icon. Apollo program’s objective was to bring people on the Moon, while this Apollo 3500 GT Coupe’s goal was to give joy to people here on Earth. You ...
15 Jan 2023, 14:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Solid-state batteries are the next iteration for battery technology, especially for EVs, but also for electronics and other applications. They make exciting promises, and it seems they are a huge improvement over the liquid electrolyte units. Unfor...
15 Jan 2023, 00:42 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / One of the most underrated CES 2023 novelties is a little robot we'll call Ram Charger, because that's what it said on it over in Las Vegas. It was shown next to the star-of-the-show Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept. It’s easy to mis...
14 Jan 2023, 13:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The U.S. government’s goal is to reach 50% zero-emissions vehicle sales by 2030. Therefore, it will fund the installation of 500,000 public charging stations. But analysts predict the public infrastructure should be at least two times or even...
13 Jan 2023, 23:34 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Brussels is the “capital” of “The United States of Europe”, so the motor show here is the perfect opportunity for car makers to show the European Union citizens (and politicians, and regulators…) that they are prepare...
13 Jan 2023, 20:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / You would expect an advocate of electromobility (aka “the dEVil’s advocate” – pun intended) to be open-minded. But I assure you I sometimes have a very hard time understanding and accepting some weird green inventions. Ba...