Ford released this week its new strategy in Europe and it came with bad news for employees as many jobs will be lost, but the American automaker also sneaked in some electric vehicle news and said that they will introduce electric versions of all passenger vehicles in Europe. Read full story here: Ford Announces Electric Versions Of All Vehicles In Europe | Electrek
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Panasonic’s Network Operations Center in Denver looks ripped straight from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel: Rows of computer workstations encircled by monitors, a wall of high-definition TVs, plush rolling chairs, call-center headsets, and urgently blinking LEDs, all soaked in surreal blue light. But they’re not tracking Soviet spies in here. Instead, the kind of guys who wear shirts patterned like graph paper are watching four colorful dots creep their way around the grid of a city map, like sedated Pac-Man ghosts. Each dot represents a real car, some…
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A range of hundreds of kilometers and the proliferation of high speed charging stations are making electrics a rational consumer choice. Except for the price. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) After driving a couple of electric cars, I find it easy to see why General Motors and Ford have both announced this week that they are joining the race to make battery-powered vehicles mainstream. The cars I tested weren’t fancy Tesla’s. They were working horse models, namely the Chevy Bolt and the Nissan Leaf, and it was clear that both cars are ready for…
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