Electric vehicles are suddenly hot, but the sector has come a long way to becoming relevant

By 2023, more than 7% of cars sold in the United States will be electric vehicles. In some parts of the world, such as Norway, this percentage was as high as 20%. In California, where I live, nearly 60% of people shopping for a car in 2021 said they would at least consider purchasing an … Read more

The slowness of electric cars threatens to leave Britain in the backseat

electric car factory Just before the 1907 Beijing to Paris motor race, The Economist – always prescient in its predictions – castigated ‘those who had rushed with such unfortunate enthusiasm to invest in bus companies’, emphasizing that ‘the horse passes the test triumphantly ‘. . I owe this quote to Kassia St Clair’s delightful new … Read more