Honda has set the starting price of the electric N-Van in Japan at 1,000,000 yen ($7,400), with the launch planned for the spring of 2024. Small city cars which are highway-capable, known as Kei cars, are a big deal in Japan. These are internal combustion engine vehicles with engine capacity restricted to 0.66L. Kei cars […]
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Nissan Sakura Wins 2022-2023 Japan Car Of The Year Award & Kei Car Of The Year Award
The Japanese EV market has been quite slow compared to other markets such as Europe and China. This is despite Nissan being the early leader in the market when it produced a mass market electric car, the Nissan Leaf. The Leaf was the first electric vehicle to get to 500,000 sales. It took about 10 […]
Cute Hyundai Autonomous Robots Now Doing Last-Mile Deliveries
Robots come in all shapes and sizes, and we are getting a greater variety of autonomous vehicles year after year — or even month after month — as well. They are slipping into more and more locations, and rather than taking over cities in a big explosive way, are performing more services incrementally. I recently […]
Keystone Pipeline — Updates On Its Largest Leak Ever (Video)
Investigators in Kansas are trying to determine what caused the worst leak in the 12-year history of the Keystone Pipeline.
EVs & Tesla Are Strong Enough To Go On Without Elon
I don’t think I need to introduce readers to Elon Musk’s online antics. I also probably don’t need to explain that it’s seriously hurting Tesla’s brand, its stock value, and its future. Zach already did a thorough job of explaining this and showing the receipts, so I won’t do that again. Instead, I want to […]
How Are Wind Turbines Made?
Many humans feel at least a bit of “megalophilia” — a love of very, very big things. This might be one of the many reasons why wind turbines fascinate us. Imagine the dazzling dizziness of looking up at the world’s tallest wind turbine: the Max Bögl Wind AG turbine in Germany stands 808 feet tall […]
Tesla Sold Over 100,000 Shanghai-Built Vehicles In November
The Chinese auto market slumped in November, with an overall drop in sales across the market. Although, Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai posted record numbers during the same month. Some say the news shows Tesla’s electric vehicle dominance in what is the world’s largest auto market, while others are pointing to the automaker’s plans to cut some […]
2022 Kia EV6 GT-Line RWD Review (w/ Video)
By Brandan Boggs With the introduction of the E-GMP Platform, Kia is planning on introducing a handful of new electric vehicles over the next few years, starting with the 2022 Kia EV6. We recently had the opportunity to review the 2022 Kia EV6 GT-Line RWD, and if this is any indication of the technology that […]
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Announced By US DOE
A DOE lab has created a fusion event that created more energy than it consumes -- something that has never happened before.
Tesla’s Fast Charging Tech Is Clearly Better, But …
CharIN has put out a forceful article on why it is unlikely to be a public charging standard. We'll see about that....