Monthly Archive: January 2023

Tesla still owns the lion’s share of the U.S. market, but it's falling thanks to a surge of competition. Ford, Kia, Chevy, Hyundai and Mercedes all have EV models challenging Tesla in the luxury market. And there are signs that Musk could be accelerating Tesla’s fall.

The tide has turned in the electrification of the German auto market, with plugin electric vehicles taking the majority of sales for the first time in December. Plugins took 55.4% of the month’s passenger auto sales, with full electrics taking a third (33.2%), and plugin hybrids taking over a fifth (22.2%). Plugless hybrids took 12.8%, […]

One of India’s largest private renewable power project developers — ReNew Power — may be looking to sell over 1 gigawatt of solar and wind power projects. According to media reports, ReNew Power is in talks with Torrent Power, an integrated power company with a footprint across India, to sell 350 megawatts of solar and […]

New battery management system technology from Texas Instruments can help maximize range and charging performance.

With the new Electra 5, GM banks on Buick brand to add high end SUV sizzle to its electric car sales in China.

At CES we saw a seriously sexy new Mercedes Benz, a motorcycle that looks like it could have been in Tron, and a BMW that wants to be your friend.

VinFast, an electric carmaker backed by Vietnam’s richest man, delayed December vehicle deliveries to its first US customers to this month because of holidays in America.

Harvest Thermal is a company focused on electrifying home heating and hot water systems with its thermal storage heat pump technology. The system reduces homeowners' energy costs and carbon emissions by shifting heat production to off-peak hours and optimizing energy use through stratified thermal storage and data-driven controls.

ChatGPT knows more stuff than you do. A lot more stuff. The entire internet of stuff. Asking it about anything is more likely to provide a complete answer than writing it yourself, even if the subject is nerdy energy flow diagrams.

2022 was a big year for BYD. The company sold 1,868,543 “new energy vehicles.” Battery electric vehicles and plugin hybrid vehicles are called new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China, and BYD is the leader in terms of volumes of NEV sales. BYD sold 946,239 “DM super hybrids” (plug in hybrids) last year. BYD also sold […]