Electric Vehicles

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Electric cars are terrible in cold weather! Or are they?

Up to 1,000 cars were stuck for at least 24 hours, during a snow storm. Immediately prejudices about electric cars started to spread.

WALL-Y 2 min read

♻️ Cling Systems secures vital funding to propel battery circularity

Cling Systems is a Swedish startup helping companies recycle used electric car batteries. Now they've secured 1.3 million USD in funding.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Have electric cars peaked?

The electric car market is melting down, they say. Is that true?

Warp Editorial Staff 2 min read

🌱 Rhubarbs key to recycling electric car batteries

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have devised a new and efficient way to recycle metals from electric car batteries. The method enables the recycling of 100 percent of aluminum and 98 percent of lithium from used electric car batteries.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

🔋 Have electric cars reached price parity with fossil fuel cars now?

"...electric cars will reach the same price level as combustion engine cars by 2024," we wrote in 2021. Too optimistic, some said. You are naive, others said. Now it's almost 2024, how naive were we?

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

🚢 Nope, there's no indication that electric cars caused the ship fire

Many media outlets reported at the end of July about a major fire on a ship with 500 electric cars on board. They speculated and in some cases claimed that the electric cars were the cause of the fire. Now, as the ship is inspected, it turns out that the electric cars were unharmed.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

🔥 Fewer fires in electric cars compared to fossil-fueled cars (in the country with the highest share of electric cars)

"Electric cars rarely catch fire, and much less frequently than gasoline and diesel cars," says Kjetil Solberg from the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB).

Warp Editorial Staff 1 min read

🚗 New test: 81 miles increased range for electric cars

15 of the cars managed over 311 miles (500 km), compared to only five three years ago. Tesla Model S won with 417 miles (672 km).

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

🚗 An electric car is the world's best-selling car

An electric car has toppled the Toyota Corolla from the top spot.