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By now it’s clear that a future with mostly (if not all) driverless cars on our roads is a matter of when, not if. With Tesla’s renowned Autopilot feature, Google’s autonomous car, Uber’s self-driving fleet, and even a rumoured Apple car, autonomous [...]
BMW tried to challenge Tesla Motors in the electric car market when it launched the i3 – its first mass-market zero-emission vehicle – but the city car didn’t really pose a serious threat to the Model S, Tesla’s best-selling model. The main reason [...]
Volvo is one of the global automakers determined to bring electric cars into the mainstream. Over the past few years, the Swedish automaker has developed new architectures for electric vehicles, and it has said on many occasions that it plans to [...]
The fuel economy of conventional gasoline-powered vehicles sold in the U.S. has been improving consistently over the past few years. This is mostly due to the fact that the EPA has implemented stricter fuel economy standards as part of the efforts [...]
Lately, many countries around the globe have been setting various medium- or long-term goals when it comes to the number of electric vehicles they want to see on their roads. But in most cases, those goals have proven to be too ambitious. India has [...]
Widely available and publicly accessible charging stations are one of the most important prerequisites for mass adoption of electric vehicles. Charging scarcity makes owning an electric car pretty difficult and inconvenient in many regions of the [...]
Germany has one of the world’s largest automotive industries, but, until recently, they’ve been lacking in environmentally friendly vehicles, with most of the industry being centered around traditionally powered vehicles. But unlike most of the [...]
The Geneva Auto Show is usually the place where automakers unveil their new, luxury supercars that target affluent enthusiasts who want to make a statement that they have made it big by purchasing an ultra-expensive exotic car. That’s why this show [...]
Tesla Motors is the undisputed leader in the luxury electric car market, with German brands like Audi and Mercedes-Benz essentially playing catch-up with the Silicon Valley incumbent. Now, yet another manufacturer wants to try to compete with the [...]
The growing popularity of hybrid vehicles is largely driven by stricter fuel economy standards, that in turn press automakers to build more fuel efficient vehicles. As automakers try to meet regulations mandating better fuel efficiency in new [...]