Upstate mechanics say they receive about 15 to 20 calls a day for car batteries overheating during the summer months. When ...

The Nissan Leaf was the world’s first mass-produced electric car. It was– and still is –one of the most affordable EVs in the game, which resulted in over half a million sales since its ...

Still of video showing battery briner application on an electric car on fire. Brine is poured into the vehicle at 250 litres a minute at minus 19C.Photo: Battery Briner Craig Eason ...

By this summer, Fiat says it will have 100 500e electric city cars using the battery swapping station. This will be part of a 'test process' before the technology is 'expanded to private customers ...

This week's edition of Driving Into The Future lays out what impacts the life and charge of your battery in an electric vehicle. In an EV, almost all of the vehicle's systems are powered by an ...

A recent study outlines how lithium-sulfur batteries may finally overcome today's lithium-ion systems' charging speed and performance limits.

In the first five months of this year, pure battery electric new cars accounted for 20.9 per cent of the market, an increase from 16.1 per cent in the same period last year (John Walton/PA) ...

The Basics of Electric Car Batteries Most electric vehicles today use lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, which are the same type of battery commonly used in smartphones and laptops. Lithium-ion ...

Their chargers can deliver up to 400 kilowatts of juice, far more than Tesla’s 250-kilowatt Superchargers. Some cars can replenish a battery in 30 minutes or less at the higher charging speeds.

Fiat has revealed a concept for a new electric car that can recharge in just five minutes, possibly ending one of the biggest headaches around EVs. Electric cars plugged in at public charging bays ...