But what we haven’t really seen is what happens when a Bolt goes head to head against what most people consider the gold standard for EV road trips: a Tesla. Now we have that, because The EV Geek on YouTube tested to see how much time driving a cheap EV really loses you.
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The world will keep a weather eye on the thrashing giant. Those like me who once admired many things about the country will mourn the loss of more and more checks and balances, the erosion of good governance, the continued increase of grievances of the working and middle class which Trump, his successors, and other Republicans will continue to exploit. The neighboring countries of Mexico and Canada will catch colds as the elephant sneezes.
But Europe, China, India, and the rest of the world will continue to move forward without the United States.
Got my “official” GM NACS to CCS1 adapter yesterday and made a test run this morning. It works. The experience … Read more
A U.S. Geological Survey-led study estimated between 5 and 19 million tons of lithium reserves are located beneath southwestern Arkansas. If commercially recoverable, the amount of lithium present would meet projected 2030 world demand for lithium in car batteries nine times over.
When Rivian said its electric pickup was built to “handle it all,” it wasn’t bluffing. A Rivian R1T owner in Asheville, North Carolina, had his vehicle dragged 100 to 150 feet after Hurricane Helene swept through the area. To even his surprise, Rivian’s electric pickup was still ready to run.
When Hurricane Helene knocked out the power in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday, Dustin Baker, like many other people across the Southeast, turned to a backup power source. His just happened to be an electric pickup truck. Over the weekend, Baker ran extension cords from the back of his Ford F-150 Lightning, using the truck’s battery to keep his refrigerator and freezer running. It worked so well that Baker became an energy Good Samaritan. “I ran another extension cord to my neighbor so they could run two refrigerators they have,” he told me.
Instead of mapping out my own charging strategy using various apps on my smartphone, and factoring in a significant buffer in my EV’s state of charge, I let the machine do the planning.
Initially, I feared pulling into an empty lot in my Hyundai Ioniq 5 somewhere just off a lonely stretch of highway, no charger to be seen and no one to blame.
But the route planning software was a terrific co-pilot for me and my family. It directed us to fast-chargers over the 3,400-kilometre journey from Toronto to Nova Scotia and back that required fewer stops than last year. Whereas I might have grown nervous when my battery’s state of charge dipped below 30 per cent, the car’s software was confident with a far slimmer 10 per cent safety buffer.
From 1942-1944 during the Nazi occupation of France, the Compagnie Générale d’Électricité or CGE (no, it’s not that General Electric) … Read more
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