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Kia PV5 Wins Another Huge Van of the Year Award
Kia seems to be on a roll with its PBV platform, and especially the PV5. The PV5 recently won a couple of awards that we’ve highlighted here. It won the “2026 International Van of the Year,” receiving the award at the IVOTY Award Gala in France and becoming the first ... [continued]
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An Army Of Meter Socket Adapters Is Coming For Your Fossil Fuels
The US startup ConnectDER is bringing its meter socket adapters to millions of households, helping to reduce the cost of rooftop solar, home energy storage, and EV charging stations.
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Kia PBV Experience Center — One Off? Or New Thing?
Kia has launched what it calls a “PBV Experience Center” as part of a strategy to “accelerate its global PBV business.” This experience center is in South Korea, Kia’s home base. Is this a notable worldwide launch? That seems to be implied, given it’s on Kia’s global press center. Or ... [continued]
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Car Crashes Are A Public Health Crisis. Autonomous Cars Are The Cure.
Waymo has released data showing its autonomous cars are much safer than conventional cars. Other companies should do the same.
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Zeekr Group Sales Rise 7.1% in November
Zeekr Group now includes the plugin vehicle brand Zeekr and the plugin vehicle brand Lynk & Co. As such, it is selling quite a lot of electric vehicles each month. In November, Zeekr Group reached 63,902 vehicle deliveries. That’s a 7.1% increase over November 2024 and a 3.7% increase over ... [continued]
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NCP Chlorchem & Terra Firma Roll Out One Of South Africa’s Largest Behind-The-Meter Industrial Solar Installations
The impressive technological progress in the solar industry over the past decade has resulted in a drastic reduction in prices of solar panels. This has accelerated the adoption of solar around the world. Having lagged compared to other places, solar panel shipments to a lot of African countries have surged ... [continued]
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Phenomenal Moments: Photographs That Illuminate The Science Behind Our World
“I created Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science around Us as a gentle nudge,” says author Felice Frankel, “especially for the young, and just as importantly for their parents — to recognize that science isn’t separate from our lives. It’s everywhere.” Enlisting readers to “be the scientist” through vivid fine ... [continued]
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Stellantis Pushes for More Pollution & Climate Idiocy in EU
Some legacy automakers will never change, it seems. Or maybe most of them won’t, but some definitely stand out as the most regressive laggards. Stellantis has certainly fit that bill for as long as I’ve been covering the auto industry. Year after year after year, automakers in the US and ... [continued]
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Tesla Lobbying UK on EV Policies … as Trump Guts Critical US Auto Policy
The Guardian is reporting that Tesla has been “privately warning” (aka lobbying) the UK government that its plans to water down EV policies will hurt EV sales and make it harder for the country to reach its climate goals. First of all, well, I think all of that must be ... [continued]
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Inside The Shop Building The World’s Quickest (& Quietest) Classic Minis
Nestled in the rolling green hills of Buellton, California, Gildred Racing first caught our attention while we were researching Electric Classic Cars’ bolt-in EV conversion kits — one of which is a perfect drop-in solution for classic Mini Coopers. As it turned out, Electric Classic Cars had been collaborating closely ... [continued]
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Silent Safaris Are Here: Electric Safari Vehicles Get Proven UK-Built EV Conversion Kits
We talked to Electric Classic Cars’ CEO Richard Morgan about their EV conversion kits for safari game viewers a few weeks ago and they’ve already made significant progress, locking in a partnership with South Africa’s largest builder of electric safari vehicles. “This partnership represents a natural extension of our mission ... [continued]
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OP-ED: The Philippines Is Getting Micromobility Backwards — And The LTO’s Crackdown Proves It
The new year will open with a clash — an avoidable clash between transport regulators and the very communities the government claims to support. The Philippines’ Land Transportation Office (LTO) has announced a sweeping crackdown on light electric vehicles (LEVs) — including e-bikes and e-trikes — threatening immediate impoundment if ... [continued]
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Philippine Transport Agency Suspends E-Trike Impounding, December to Be a Month of “Catch-and-Release”
31 days of warnings before the crackdown The Philippine Land Transportation Office (LTO) has officially hit the brakes on its plan to begin impounding electric tricycles (e-trikes) and electric bikes (e-bikes) on national highways this December. Following a surge of public complaints and confusion over the new regulations, the agency ... [continued]
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Call for Urgent Agreement on EU Battery Carbon Footprint Rules in Support of Europe’s Battery Industry
In a letter, T&E joins companies and organisations working across the European battery value chain to call for an urgent agreement on EU battery carbon footprint rules in support of Europe’s battery industry. Ahead of the upcoming EU Battery Booster, actors from across the battery value chain and T&E are ... [continued]
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“Big Short” Investor Michael Burry Says Tesla “Ridiculously Overvalued”
As I’ve written countless times before, Tesla is in or approaching an extreme inflection point again. If the company is able to flip the switch on truly driverless “Full Self Driving” that lets people text, watch movies, work, or sleep while the car drives itself (and Tesla takes on the ... [continued]
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