Category: Electric cars

Real world tests of BYD’s DM-i 5.0 technology show better than advertised results

Last week BYD launched its fifth generation PHEV technology – DM-i 5.0. Since then there has been a lot of controversy over the three central claims of 46.06% thermal efficiency, 2.9 l/100 km fuel consumption and 2,100 km range. However a number of tests have shown that the claims are not unreasonable, the most recent […]

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NYC had electric taxis in the ’90s—the 1890s, that is

New York City skylineNew York City's iconic fleet of taxis once included some EVs—but you have to look back more than a century to find them. As National Geographic explains in a recent article, electric taxis had a brief moment of popularity in the city in the 1890s. The fleet quickly grew from a dozen vehicles in 1897 to over 100 by 1899. It's an important...