Zevvy is a startup that aims to make used (secondhand) electric cars accessible to people who need them the most. They intend to make electric vehicles available to the millions of Americans who drive tens of thousands of miles each year. These employees often cannot afford a new electric carContinue Reading
Ford, General Motors, and Hyundai are all battling battery fires in their electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. A few years ago, battery fires in Tesla automobiles were major front page news stories, despite the fact that they occurred at a much lower rate than gas car fires (there are approximatelyContinue Reading
When the batteries used in the Chevy Bolt first started catching fire, General Motors and its battery supplier, LG Chem, first attributed the problem to a defect in the way the pouch cells used in the Bolt were being manufactured at one factory in Korea. But now the problem hasContinue Reading
General Motors (GM) recently had to expand its recall of the Chevy Bolt EV, a popular all-electric subcompact hatchback, to include all models after several fires caused by defects in the vehicles’ battery packs made by LG Chem — a troubling blow for one of the most popular EVs inContinue Reading
