Articles from IEEE Electric Vehicle News

New Autonomous Cars and Connected Mobility

The Future of Driving Is Arriving Those gifts that you ordered from Amazon are shuttled through a massive warehouse by a self-driving vehicle. In 2019, 100 Volvos that can self-drive with the touch of a button will be in use in Gothenburg, Sweden. A year later, more than 1,000 self-driving cars from several automakers will […]

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5 Questions To Ask Before Getting Car Insurance for Your Hybrid

Tips for the new car buyer When it comes to purchasing a new car, people usually focus on the technical characteristics of the vehicle itself, which often means that another important part of the buying process – getting car insurance – often becomes an afterthought, if not entirely forgotten. But that can sometimes result in […]

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Opinion: Solar Tariffs are Throttling America’s Biggest Job Creation Machine

by Nick Blitterswyk, CEO of UGE The U.S. Department of Commerce just announced that it will add high tariffs for solar modules imported from China. The Canadian government is also investigating the adoption of similar measures, following recent complaints filed by Ontario-based solar manufacturers. With the solar industry in hypergrowth, it’s not a surprise that these [...]

Video: Reversing Climate Change with Biochar in Ten Minutes

If you are interested in climate change, you’ve probably heard of biochar. It’s basically charcoal, which is produced not through burning, but through heating biomass in the absence of oxygen. It has the amazing fertilizer qualities and when used in this way is actually carbon negative by sequestering carbon in the earth. The video, produced by [...]

Solar and Wind Provide 70%+ of New Generating Capacity for November

FOR NINTH TIME IN PAST ELEVEN MONTHS RENEWABLES DOMINATE NEW U.S. ELECTRICAL GENERATING CAPACITY According to the latest “Energy Infrastructure Update” report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Office of Energy Projects, wind energy and solar power combined provided over 70 percent (71.82%) of the 873 megawatts (MW) of new U.S. electrical generating capacity placed into [...]

Video: Installation of the Haliade 6MW Offshore Wind Turbine

Here’s a great little video if you love seeing wind turbines being installed. This one is huge and getting placed off shore into the North Sea off the coast of Belgium, one of the toughest environments for wind turbines to operate.

2014 LA Auto Show: A Hydrogen Milestone

The Car of the Future Shows Up Again Last year it was two concept vehicles and one surprise — a fuel cell vehicle going on sale sooner than anyone expected. This year (2014 LA Auto Show) one was one fuel cell is already on sale (albeit in small numbers), two are about to hit the […]

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Road Test: 2015 Mazda CX-5

Fuel economy and Zoom-Zoom How can a small-size car company meet federal fuel economy standards for the next decade if it lacks the resources to develop fuel-efficient hybrids, like larger automakers? If you’re Mazda, you tackle the issue with a holistic approach and innovative engineering that benefits not only fuel economy, but performance, handling and […]

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Road Test: 2014 Volkswagen Jetta TDI – DSG Automatic

A Shiftless Diesel Delight Clean Fleet Report recently compared the Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid (with a DSG automatic) and Jetta TDI, (with the six-speed manual transmission) in this story. To close-out the head-to-head-to-head on this model, we had the opportunity to drive the 2014 VW Jetta TDI with the DSG Automatic with Tiptronic. Excellent fuel economy […]

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LA Auto Show 2014 Review: Plug-in Hybrid Best Bets for 2015

The 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show was full of plug-in hybrids (PHEV). I investigated details both for this article and because I’m interested in buying a new PHEV, which surprises friends because I have been driving an all-electric Nissan Leaf for close to 4 years. Range has rarely been an issue with our all-electric, and […]

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