Electric Vehicles

Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s largest lubricant producers, will install half a million charging points across the globe by 2025. The move ...

The Mechanical Engineering Industry Association in Germany last week urged the European Commission to change course on the development of Euro 7, argu ...

General Motors, the world’s fifth-largest carmaker, said it would stop producing internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035 and “aspires” to be ...

Electric vehicle sales have been rising in the affluent countries of the West, where per capita income and environmental awareness are high. But wealt ...

Europe's carmaker trade association and environmental groups both have criticisms of the EU's proposed transport carbon reduction measures.

Tesla in Good Shape for 2021

January 14, 2021

Last year was typically busy for the world’s leading and highest-profile battery electric vehicle maker. Hardly a week went by when Tesla wasn’t m ...

Russian drivers have so far eschewed e-mobility in favor of conventional engines to transport them along potholed highways in the frigid Russian winte ...

Despite the havoc wreaked on the auto industry by the pandemic, demand for electric vehicles around the world grew at an impressive rate.

Tipping to EV Adoption

December 18, 2020

A recent survey carried out by Castrol reveals some interesting insights about the pace of vehicle electrification. Lubes'n'Greases talked to two memb ...

While there are plenty of electric vehicles to suit every budget and taste in China, the average price of an EV is still above their conventional coun ...

Electrification of the global vehicle parc is coming, but will it swoop in like a blizzard or creep in at a glacial pace? The answer is somewhere in b ...

The conversation surrounding carbon-neutral transport centers on electric vehicles, especially in Europe and North America. But there may be an existi ...

Surge Projector

November 16, 2020

Research and development of batteries carries on apace around the world, despite lockdowns and low, yet recovering, vehicle sales. While not fast enou ...

German auto giant Volkswagen is holding course on investing multi-billions into its electrification future.

New e-fluids on the market from Shell and Fuchs.

There are a number of potential avenues of development and challenges for electric vehicle lubricant formulators, but whatever path they take, compreh ...

News from around the world of commercial and public transport EVs.

Lukoil’s LLK International and Total’s subsidiary in Russia both suffered setbacks due to the country’s COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year, but ...

Electric vehicles could make up 90% of the United States’ passenger vehicle fleet by 2050 if the government and consumers become more aggressive abo ...

Trends related to electric vehicles accounted for half of the 10 most popular answers in a global survey of tribologists and lubrication engineers abo ...