Electric vehicles

Proterra has announced that the San José City Council has approved the purchase of ten Proterra Catalyst E2 zero-emissions battery-electric transit buses and related charging infrastructure for use at the Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport.

BYD Co Ltd., founded in 1995, is a Chinese manufacturer of automobiles and rechargeable batteries with its corporate headquarters based in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. BYD is an acronym derived from the phrase "build your dreams".

Avoid the grid! Although the national grid is the preferred source of electricity in most countries and the aspiration in others there are now powerful forces pushing the other way.

It is hard to avoid the topic of the automotive sector within the composite industry, but of late there has been a shift in the rhetoric from when the large uptake will happen to whether it will happen at all.

A total of £540 million is being invested in electric cars, including £400 million on building more electric car charging points.

Mercedes-Benz Vans plans to offer all its commercial van model lines with electric drive. This will start with the mid-size eVito in the second half of 2018. Further model ranges will follow, starting in 2019.

Nissan Leafs, which go about 107 miles on a charge, sometimes end up relegated to commuter cars due to battery-life worries. The mass-market, standard Tesla Model 3 can go double that, but even that distance can be disconcerting on long road trips.

Jaguar Land Rover is taking part in the UK's first road tests for autonomous and connected vehicles. Real-world testing takes Jaguar Land Rover another step closer to bringing an intelligent vehicle to reality.

UCLA researchers have designed a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be used to power electronic devices, and to create hydrogen fuel for eco-friendly cars.

The decline in off grid electricity production as a percentage of all electricity production is being reversed. Savvy industrialists are onto this.

The core brand of the Volkswagen Group will be investing about €22.8 billion throughout the world from 2018 to 2022.

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement with Terrafugia Inc, a US-based company focused on the innovation, engineering and production of flying cars and future technologies, to acquire its operations and assets in their entirety.

The nature-inspired robot could one day substitute traditional autonomous underwater vehicles

IDTechEx will be hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 28 November titled Range Extenders for Electric Vehicles.