Monthly Archive: November 2022

If Thanksgiving Didn’t Break the Grid, then Neither Will EVs

By Assaf Oron Having followed media stories about EVs for ~10 years, I’m familiar ad nauseum with all the well-worn anti-EV tropes. With my very teeny megaphone, I’ve done my little bit to try and dispel them over the years. In 2015, I went on record in a scientific journal, countering the misguided EV footprint analysis […]

VinFast To Deliver First 999 EVs In USA

VinFast just marked a major milestone in its global expansion journey with a ceremony for the first batch of its EVs being exported to the US. VinFast notes that the first batch includes 999 VF 8 SUVs. They are headed over on the Silver Queen and are expected to arrive in a California port (USA) […]

Aptera Officially Announces It Will Use The Tesla Charging Connector

In some ways, this is hardly news at all. Since Aptera re-emerged in 2019-2020, all of the vehicle’s prototypes have had a Tesla plug that hides behind the autocycle’s small license plate. At the beginning, Aptera couldn’t tell us what its final choice of plug would be, but it seemed to be its preference. Fitting […]