Charging ahead
AFTER a decade of halting progress, electric cars are zooming ahead in China. Last year the number of registrations of new electric vehicles overtook that in America, making the Middle Kingdom the world’s biggest market.
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Electric car dream collides with reality on profits
Tesla did not attend the Frankfurt Motor Show this year, but its presence was felt in every corner of the massive event, which will host close to a million visitors before it wraps up at the end of the month.
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An infrastructure for charging electric vehicles takes shape
A NEW phrase, “range anxiety”—the fear that an electric vehicle (EV) will run out of power before it reaches a charging-point—entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. At the time a Nissan LEAF, the world’s best-selling EV, could travel only 120km between charges.
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We’re driving to an electric future, but how do we keep the kettle on? – BBC News
Electric vehicles are now a reality, but boiling a kettle at the same time as charging your car may not be, according to insights published by the National Grid.
In July, the government announced that all sales of new petrol and diesel cars in the UK will cease by 2040.
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Tesla and Elon Musk’s moment of truth with first mass-market car
For Dom Larose, there was an obvious next step to shrinking his carbon footprint after he had switched his home in the UK to a renewable source of electricity: buying an electric car.
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How the electric car revolution could backfire
The government has given in to pressure to follow France in promising to set a date by which to ban diesel and petrol engines in cars and replace them with electric motors. It should have resisted, not because the ambition is wrong but because coercion could backfire.
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Electric cars won’t get us very far. Because they can’t | The Spectator
When I heard the government’s announcement that petrol and diesel cars are to be banned from 2040, I resorted, as I often do, to the British Pathé news archive. I found a 1967 film showing trials of a prototype electric Mini, as well as a similar experiment from Ford.
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Electric vehicle realities | FT Alphaville
Electric vehicles (EVs) are all the rage. But they’re also fast becoming the sacred cows you can’t criticise for fear of being shredded by the EV, renewable, and tech lobbies.
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The death of the internal combustion engine
“HUMAN inventiveness…has still not found a mechanical process to replace horses as the propulsion for vehicles,” lamented Le Petit Journal, a French newspaper, in December 1893.
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UK plans to stop sale of all diesel, petrol cars from 2040 | ZDNet
The UK government has outlined plans to prevent the sale of all new petrol and diesel cars by 2040. The draft proposal stems from fears that pollution is rising and air quality continues to get worse, which may eventually become a serious risk to public health.
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The electric car revolution will leave many behind
This has been another big week for electric cars, which means it has been a frantic week for people who loathe the things. First they had to deal with the UK banning new petrol and diesel car sales from 2040 — just three weeks after France announced a similar plan.
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