Enlarge / Hyundai’s Namyang R& D center in 2003. (credit: Hyundai) Last year was challenging for many reasons, but 2021 wasn’t entirely bad. Despite the pandemic and the chip shortage, it was a great year for new battery electric vehicles. So much so that more than half of our top 10 drives of the year […]
Enlarge / A 1960s Southern California gas station being restored. (credit: FarukUlay | Getty Images) On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General Motors lab poured a new fuel blend into one of their test engines. Immediately, the engine began running more quietly and putting out more power. […]
Enlarge / 70 percent of the cars Porsche has ever built are still on the road. Since it wants to keep it that way, its developing a synthetic fuel that emits 90 percent less CO2 than gasoline derived from fossil fuels. (credit: Porsche) Even with the best will in the world, it will be many […]
Enlarge / If we’re serious about decarbonizing, the internal combustion engine has to go by 2030-2035, according to a new study. (credit: Reinhard Krull/EyeEm/Getty Images) If you listen to electric vehicle naysayers, switching to EVs is pointless because even if the cars are vastly more efficient than ones that use internal combustion engines—and they are—that […]
Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order requiring all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the nation from 2035 function as zero-emissions cars. Furthermore, all of drayage trucks–those which transfer containers around at locations such as the Port of Los Angeles–should go emissions […]