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Imogen Pierce

Imogen Pierce

·Apr 6, 2022

The Great Battery Bake Off and the Shift Upstream

Securing battery raw materials and supply chains is the unsexy yet critical challenge for EV makers in the coming decades — Imagine for a moment that the world collectively agreed that eating a slice of toast every day was an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. Then imagine that in actioning that plan we discover that over 90% of the world’s bread industry — from growing the wheat, making yeast, making…

Electric Vehicles

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The Great Battery Bake Off and the Shift Upstream
The Great Battery Bake Off and the Shift Upstream
Electric Vehicles

7 min read


Enrique Llanes

Enrique Llanes

·Apr 6, 2022

Car Sales Are Dropping Fast — And Not Because of the Semiconductor Shortage

Supply chain issues have hampered automakers, but the dreaded Osborne Effect is a much bigger drag on the industry — In February 2019, Maarten Vinkhuyzen wrote an impactful article in Cleantechnica titled “The Osborne Effect On The Auto Industry”. In his research, we can read how the Osborne Effect was going to impact the auto industry in the following years due to an increase in demand for newer battery-electric vehicles…

Technology

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Car Sales Are Dropping Fast — And Not Because of the Semiconductor Shortage
Car Sales Are Dropping Fast — And Not Because of the Semiconductor Shortage
Technology

4 min read


Alvin Chan

Alvin Chan

·Feb 15, 2022

Fly to Bordeaux, or Drive a Tesla?

How I went on a continental holiday with 94% lower emissions— a comparison of travel time, costs & carbon, plus tips & tricks! — After a year-and-a-half of lockdowns, we were excited to take a trip abroad — we’ve been to Bordeaux before with friends (flying on a budget airline), but that comes with significant carbon emissions, even for a short haul flight from London Luton. The question was then: Could we travel in…

Mobility

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Fly to Bordeaux, or Drive a Tesla?
Fly to Bordeaux, or Drive a Tesla?
Mobility

6 min read


Lance Ulanoff

Lance Ulanoff

·Feb 1, 2022

Cybertruck Could Be Tesla’s Big Miss

Elon Musk’s EV pickup fantasy is not the truck the market’s looking for — I’m a Tesla fan. I’ve never owned one of Elon Musk’s EV sedans, but I have test-driven an early Model 3, been driven hundreds of miles in a Model S, crawled around a Tesla Semi, and even had a few 0-to-60 in 3.4- second experiences in a P85 d Model…

Tesla

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Cybertruck Could Be Tesla’s Big Miss
Cybertruck Could Be Tesla’s Big Miss
Tesla

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Imogen Pierce

Imogen Pierce

·Jan 20, 2022

Is Universal Basic Mobility the Route to a Sustainable City?

Oakland, California is piloting a program to provide all residents with basic access to mobility — A few weeks ago Oakland, California, became the latest U.S. city to debut a Universal Basic Mobility (UBM) pilot — a combination of policies, funding, and partnerships that aim to provide all members of society with a basic level of access to mobility. Lack of access poses a major barrier…

Mobility

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Is Universal Basic Mobility the Route to a Sustainable City?
Is Universal Basic Mobility the Route to a Sustainable City?
Mobility

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Brayden Gerrard

Brayden Gerrard

·Jan 7, 2022

How We Can Build Electric Vehicles With Renewable Energy

This mining technique is producing lithium and green energy at the same time — Electric Vehicle (EV) sales are growing at lightning speed. 2021 looks to be on track for more than 4 million fully electric vehicles old — more than 2019 and 2020 combined. The environmental benefits of swapping a gas car for an EV are already massive. A study from the International…

Climate Change

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How We Can Build Electric Vehicles With Renewable Energy
How We Can Build Electric Vehicles With Renewable Energy
Climate Change

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Imogen Pierce

Imogen Pierce

·Dec 1, 2021

A Modular Future for Electric Vehicles

REE Automotive wants to provide automakers with a highly functional blank canvas — Earlier this month, I attended MOVE 2021 — a two day mobility conference at the London ExCEL. Many of the delegates were familiar from the last MOVE event I attended in 2019, only this time having swapped organisations and their suits for a pair of Veja trainers and a branded…

Electric Vehicles

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REE Automotive -Practical Platforms for Unfettered Creativity
REE Automotive -Practical Platforms for Unfettered Creativity
Electric Vehicles

7 min read


Thomas Smith

Thomas Smith

·Nov 22, 2021

How Electric Cars Get Their Sounds — and What It Means For Tomorrow’s Cities

A fascinating combination of engineering, art, and marketing that will change how the world sounds — Recently, I was standing next to an electric car as it reversed out of a parking space. As it backed up, the car made a space-age whooshing sound, like a science fiction spacecraft gliding along the surface of an alien planet. As soon as the car stopped reversing, though, the…

Electric Cars

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How Electric Cars Get Their Sounds — and What It Means For Tomorrow’s Cities
How Electric Cars Get Their Sounds — and What It Means For Tomorrow’s Cities
Electric Cars

9 min read


Richard Gingras

Richard Gingras

·Nov 9, 2021

Divining Tesla’s Safety Score

Or how I became the Queen’s limo driver because I had no choice — In late September Tesla updated the software of my Model S (Performance, 2018) and advised that I now had the option to participate in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta . …

Tesla

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Divining Tesla’s Safety Score
Divining Tesla’s Safety Score
Tesla

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Brayden Gerrard

Brayden Gerrard

·Nov 5, 2021

For Electric Vehicles, How Much Range Is Enough?

Electric vehicle ranges have reached new heights. When will it be enough? — At the end of October, a small group of customers took delivery of the very first production units of the Lucid Air, a luxurious electric sedan (pictured above). Headed by former Tesla engineer Peter Rawlinson, Lucid finally achieved their years-long journey of bringing the Air to market. Many features set…

Transportation

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For Electric Vehicles, How Much Range Is Enough?
For Electric Vehicles, How Much Range Is Enough?
Transportation

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Steve LeVine

Steve LeVine

Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.

Kaushik Viswanath

Kaushik Viswanath

Previously: Creators & Marker @Medium and business books at Penguin Random House.

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Dennis Huynh

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