Fuel Tax Is Dying With Petrol, and Something Has to Replace It
Roads are funded by taxing fuel. Electric cars do not buy fuel. Governments are working out what comes next.
Tag: electric vehicles
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Chinese Electric Cars Are Reshaping the Global Market
Manufacturers that barely existed a decade ago are now among the largest. The response elsewhere is tariffs.
Whatever Happened to Hydrogen Cars
For a while it was the obvious answer. Batteries won the passenger car argument, and hydrogen found a different job.
Hybrid or Electric: How to Decide
The answer depends almost entirely on where you park and how far you drive.
Electric Car Charging Explained for Beginners
Three speeds, several connector types, and a lot of confusing terminology. Here is the short version.
Solid-State Batteries: Still Coming, Still Not Here
Announced as imminent for a decade. The chemistry works, the manufacturing does not yet, and that distinction explains everything.
The Used Electric Car Market Needs One Number
Battery condition determines most of a used electric car's value, and there is no standard way to check it.
Why Your Own Car Will Not Drive Itself for a While
Robotaxi services are expanding in specific cities. A car you own that drives anywhere is a different and harder problem.
Charging Infrastructure Is a Planning Problem, Not a Technology Problem
Fast chargers exist and work. Getting them installed where people actually need them is the hard part.
The Battery Chemistries Competing to Replace Lithium-Ion
Sodium, solid-state and lithium-iron-phosphate are each solving a different problem. None of them wins outright.