This electric car was cutting edge in 1908. What’s it like to drive it?

This electric car was cutting edge in 1908. What’s it like to drive it?

Post Views: 195 Electric vehicles are a much more long-standing tradition of car culture than we often give them credit for. Ask someone the first EV that pops to mind, and the usual responses will be from the past couple of decades—the original Tesla Roadster, perhaps the late 1990s GM EV1, maybe in rare cases…

Nifty new tech could cut EV charging times from hours to minutes

Nifty new tech could cut EV charging times from hours to minutes

Post Views: 103 Battery science is a pretty undeveloped field, which is why we’re still using lithium-ion instead of ultra-efficient metal air or sodium chemistry. During the period when burning fuel to generate power was always the easiest option, there wasn’t a motivation to make storage a priority and when it comes to EV charging,…

Which cars will be left in the dust by next year’s 3G shutdown?

Which cars will be left in the dust by next year’s 3G shutdown?

Post Views: 151 Reading that, probably on a 5G-enabled device, you think, “Huh. Quaint.” But even if your smartphone’s network is several generations ahead, the same might not be true for your car. The truth is a large number of new cars made in the last decade, even some in the 2021 model year, were…