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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Those exact words came from my wife’s mouth when I suggested we rent an electric car for a week’s family holiday in France. Sure, it’d be a gamble fraught with charging uncertainty. A shitty obscure Chinese electric car. A stuck charging cable. Holiday days planned around EV charging.

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Tips: 5 Common Mistakes To Avoid When Selling Your EV?

Clean Fleet Report

It’s All About the Prep – Both You & the Car. Selling a used car is never easy, especially when you’ve owned the vehicle for many years. Independent sellers often don’t have a clear idea of their car’s value. The first thing you should do is research their auto’s book value.

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Tesla owner implants a chip to unlock his car and more

Teslarati

Brandon Dalaly, a Tesla owner, has a unique way of unlocking his car: with his hand. “The whole idea was that I would have my house key in my left hand and my car key in my right hand. “We’re at the dawn of this technology and it’s a very niche product. This one measures your body temperature.

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Audi Unveils the World’s First Luxury Lounge for EV Charging

Get Electric Vehicle

Audi strives to make charging your electric vehicle as pleasurable as possible. By the end of 2021, the premium auto brand Audi launched the “world’s first charging hub” in its native nation of Germany. Instead, the reservation-only hub has a comfortable lounge where you can unwind while your battery charges.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

Teslarati

From Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3, details on the company’s third-generation platform, and discussions on how Tesla could each extreme scale, Investor Day promises to be an event that is one for the books. It’s not that people don’t want a car. A question about bidirectional charging was also asked.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

Cars That Think

I’m senior editor Stephen Cass, and today I’m talking with a former Spectrum editor, Sally Adee, about her new book, We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome. But before that, a number of the researchers I spoke to for this book told me that they had started to see it in papers that they were reviewing.

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