Only one in 100 second-hand vehicles for sale is electric and it could take three years for the situation to significantly improve, experts warn. Greater government subsidies targeting fleets and second-hand vehicles may boost supply, they say, which could otherwise slow the wider uptake of zero-emission vehicles and cuts to transport pollution. The modest number…

Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging technology is being put on a fast track to become a North American standard, giving a further boost to the automaker’s plan to expand access to its once-exclusive chargers. Tesla’s charging technology has been gathering momentum for weeks. Volvo Car on Tuesday joined General Motors, Ford and Rivian in embracing Tesla’s charging…

Trump administration veterans have questioned the Biden administration’s proposed electric car rules, arguing that they could be a pretext for radically slashing private vehicle ownership. Mike McKenna, a deputy assistant to President Donald J. Trump, told a Heritage Foundation panel that the Environmental Protection Agency’s April proposal is actually about “getting rid of cars” in…

Ford and Nemaska Lithium have signed an 11 year deal that will see the American automaker buy lithium products from the Quebec company for use in electric car batteries. The deal will see Ford become Nemaska’s first customer. The companies issued a joint news release saying Ford will buy up to 13,000 tons a year…

Crossing the street in an age of electric vehicles has added risk. The new transport technology is clean, powerful and quiet – so quiet pedestrians may not hear it at low speeds. And that is what concerns Blind Citizens Australia president Fiona Woods, who says the near-silent vehicles will put all pedestrians at risk but…

Widespread support for changes that could lower the price and increase the supply of electric vehicles has been outlined in hundreds of responses to the federal government’s National Electric Vehicle Strategy. More than 440 submissions to the consultation paper were published on Friday, also revealing calls for more local production of lithium batteries, electric buses…

An Australian start-up has launched a rescue bid for British electric car battery business Britishvolt, which was once praised by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson but fell into administration last week. Recharge Industries said it lodged a late takeover bid on Tuesday for the firm, a week after Britishvolt collapsed and made the majority of…

Britishvolt, an electric car battery company once praised by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has fallen into administration and made the majority of its 300 staff redundant. The company had been promising to build a £3.8 billion gigafactory producing batteries for electric cars in Blyth, Northumberland. But the project ran into serious difficulties months ago…

Elon Musk has risen to prominence and great wealth by pushing the boundaries of space exploration, satellite technology, electric cars, and now Twitter. However, his most important project is the one that is almost completely unknown: OpenAI. OpenAI is a research organization founded by Musk and Sam Altman in 2015. Their mission was to create…

A Washington, DC, couple left stranded after their electric car ran out of battery was saved by none other than coal miners who were working nearby. Despite the ongoing push toward energy-efficient vehicles, the guys were more than happy to push the stranded car to the mine to get it recharged. West Virginia State Senator Randy Smith…