Electric Vehicles
🌱 Rhubarbs key to recycling electric car batteries
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have devised a new and efficient way to recycle metals from electric car batteries. The method enables the recycling of 100 percent of aluminum and 98 percent of lithium from used electric car batteries.
🔋 Have electric cars reached price parity with fossil fuel cars now?
"...electric cars will reach the same price level as combustion engine cars by 2024," we wrote in 2021. Too optimistic, some said. You are naive, others said. Now it's almost 2024, how naive were we?
🚢 Nope, there's no indication that electric cars caused the ship fire
Many media outlets reported at the end of July about a major fire on a ship with 500 electric cars on board. They speculated and in some cases claimed that the electric cars were the cause of the fire. Now, as the ship is inspected, it turns out that the electric cars were unharmed.
🔥 Fewer fires in electric cars compared to fossil-fueled cars (in the country with the highest share of electric cars)
"Electric cars rarely catch fire, and much less frequently than gasoline and diesel cars," says Kjetil Solberg from the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB).
🚗 New test: 81 miles increased range for electric cars
15 of the cars managed over 311 miles (500 km), compared to only five three years ago. Tesla Model S won with 417 miles (672 km).
🚗 An electric car is the world's best-selling car
An electric car has toppled the Toyota Corolla from the top spot.
🚗 Tony Seba: A future with autonomous transportation means a 75% drop in global car sales
"Over 10 years, you're going to need just one EV for 10 petrol cars," says Tony Seba.
🔥 Electric cars catch fire less often than fossil fuel cars
The fires in electric cars have been steady in the last three years, although the number of electric cars has almost doubled.
🚗 IEA: Electric cars as affordable as gasoline cars by 2025 (but we already knew that)
IEA believes that small electric cars will soon be cheaper to buy than their gasoline counterparts. But for another category, they think it will take many more years.