Category: JET Charge blog

Announcement – JET Charge series B funding round

Battery prices are down and falling | Bloomberg report
Bloomberg are back at it with the 2019 Battery Price Survey and they’ve found what we all expected: EV batteries are getting cheaper every year and will continue to do so over the 2020s. Check out the reasons, the tech, and the implications on JET Charge Journal.

Cybertruck safety concerns from ANCAP
ANCAP boss Jame Goodwin has voiced concerns over the Tesla Cybertruck’s safety credentials. A bulletproof steel body isn’t worth much if it can’t get past Aussie regulators.

Thanksgiving charge lines are a warning and a lesson
As millions of Americans traveled cross-country to visit their families this Thanksgiving, the lines at some Tesla Supercharger locations reportedly grew dozens of cars deep. Is this a warning of things to come for electric roadtrippers? We look at the problem and some of the possible solutions today on the JET Charge Journal.

Is Cybertruck the future of automotive design?
Tesla have made headlines again with the reveal of their Blade Runner-inspired ‘Cybertruck’. This revolutionary pickup/ute design is unlike anything seen before on a production vehicle and marks their most controversial unveiling to-date. And it could be a watershed moment for the future of EV design, but not for the reasons you’d think.

Who’s investing in EV tech?
As more major automakers dip their toes into one or two electric models, you might be wondering exactly how invested they are in developing and producing electric tech. Well, we’ve got the numbers. Here are the highlights, the pledges, the promises and the potential for a worldwide move from combustion to e-mobility.

The long road to electric trucks
Commercial trucks are among the highest polluting and most expensive-to-run vehicles on our roads, but they’re also essential to the world economy. Today we’re looking at electric mobility and trucking to see what’s being done to bring the two together.

5 strange developments in electric mobility
We’ve all heard of electric vehicles. We know about the scooters, bicycles, boats and even planes. But it doesn’t end there. Electrification has opened a wacky can of watts for the personal transport game, so today on the JET Charge blog we’re diving in to see what’s out there and where you can get it.

The XC40 Recharge is the start of something big for Volvo
It’s been about a week since Volvo announced their first all-electric model, the XC40 Recharge, but that’s not what has us excited. They’ve pledged one of the auto industry’s most bold emissions reduction plans with electrification at the centre of it all. So what exactly are they promising and how will they make it happen?