With surging demand for electric vehicles (EV), major motor shows like the Geneva Motor Show are still mainly internal combustion orientated with EVs participating in consumer electronics shows like CES instead. Given this, here's a sneak online EV expo:
Electric Cars
- I-Pace - Telegraph's 2018 pick of electric cars
- Tesla3 - Most efficient production electric car: 123 mpge [vs Civic's 32 mpg]
- Tesla3 - Longest range production electric car: 310 miles or 500 kilometres
- Lucid - Investment target for Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund
- Clarity - Green Car of the Year 2018
- BYD - Bangkok's pioneer batch of EV taxis starts Sept 2018 [ my | sg ]
- Dyson - To pioneer the use of solid state batteries for electric cars
- Nio - Tencent's high performance electric car
- Xpeng - Backed by Alibaba, Foxconn, Xiaomi and a host of VCs.
Electric Transport
Current car designs are driver centered (vs society orientated) and not very green. A driver weighing 70 kg drives a 2500 kg SUV around town with seats and boot empty and with an engine powerful enough to haul the SUV and a full load of passengers and luggage. Newer car designs trend towards cosiness, sharing, zero-emissions, lesser environmental impact, utililisation over idleness, automatic driving, coordination, efficiency, flexible usage and safety.
- e.Go Mover - All purpose electric minibus
- Next Future Mobility - Pods being trialed at Dubai new video
- Ultra Global Personal Rapid Transit - Heathrow pods for Taiwan
- XEV LSEV - First mass production 3D-printed car: from 2,000 parts to 57
- Navya Autonom - La Trobe University's campus driverless bus top image
- Toyota e-Palette - The EV is the space: retail, lounge, workspace
- Sono Sion - Solar powered EV
Light Electric
An alternative to driverless or smart transport is to make the vehicle minimalist and lightweight, as in mopeds (electric assisted bikes with pedals) and scooters (either Vespa-like electric bikes or standing, small-wheeled, skateboard-like ebikes). Usually limited to 30 mph (50 kmh) for legal reasons, mopeds and scooters are ideal as first and last mile complements to mass transit. In Europe, ebikes sales are brisk.
- Onyx - Retro-style moped
- Elettrica - Vespa's electric scooter
- Niu - The Xiaomi of electric scooters
- EcosSmartMetro - Budget, minimalist scooter
- GenZe - Cargo scooter popular with rental firms
- Mobot Flexi - 3 wheeled scooter for the elderly
- Alta Redshift - Off road electric bike
Electric Buses
At the other end of the scale are buses, the group alternative to personal transport.
- Optare Metrodecker - Ashok Leyland's EV double decker for London
- Solaris Urbino - Poland's European Bus of The Year for Berlin
- Irizar ie Tram - Spain's EV tram-bus for Aix-en-Provence
- Xcelsior Charge - Canada's EV bus for Montreal
- Volvo 7900 eBus - Sweden's EV bus for Netherlands
- Mercedes-Benz Citaro - Germany's EV bus for Hamburg
- BYD Midibus - Hungary built EV midibus for Sicily
- Proterra Catalyst - US's EV bus for Washington DC