Welcome to Transport Evolved! Join us every day for content from NIkki Gordon-Bloomfield, Kate Walton-Elliott, and Erin Carlie as they explore and explain the world of cleaner, greener, safer, and smarter transport. Between us, we’ve got more than 20 years of driving cleaner, greener vehicles, and we believe that the future of transport depends on a whole lot more than one company!
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From Transport Evolved. Welcome to this week’s episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! On today’s show, Nissan cancels its plans for the most affordable LEAF in the U.S., Donut brings data to back up some of its claims about its solid state batteries, and Ford decides customers should pay extra to get a frunk…
From Transport Evolved. Usually, when we test drive a vehicle on this channel, the team walks away with a range of opinions — about how it drives, what it does well (and badly), and where it fits in the broader EV marketplace. And we work hard to set aside our personal biases. Especially when it…
From Transport Evolved. Has the "Musk Premium" turned into a "Musk Penalty"? As 2026 unfolds, the debate surrounding Elon Musk’s leadership has reached a fever pitch. While his leadership has been credited with driving success in a wide variety of ventures, his increasingly erratic and polarizing public behavior and deep dive into right wing politics…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to this week’s episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! Today, Toyota unveils the Highlander EV, its first 3-row EV, BYD joins legal action against the U.S. as the U.S. Supreme Court deems Trump Tariffs Illegal, and 96% of EV owners say they’ll never go back to ICE. Find full show…
From Transport Evolved. Last year, Ford held an event in Louisville, Kentucky, where Ford CEO Jim Farley promised Fords new mid-size electric pickup truck and unveiled, for the first time, Ford’s new Universal Electric Vehicle Platform. Developed in a special skunkworks facility separate from Ford’s usual Detroit and Cologne engineering teams, the resulting vehicle platform…
From Transport Evolved. Our team has collectively owned and driven electric vehicles for over four decades, covering a broad range of models released across the past half‑century. Yet, despite that experience, many people still claim that a long‑distance EV road‑trip is impossible without relying on Tesla’s Supercharger network. Tesla undeniably accelerated the rollout of fast‑charging…
From Transport Evolved. Our team has collectively owned and driven electric vehicles for over four decades, covering a broad range of models released across the past half‑century. Yet, despite that experience, many people still claim that a long‑distance EV road‑trip is impossible without relying on Tesla’s Supercharger network. Tesla undeniably accelerated the rollout of fast‑charging…
From Transport Evolved. As eagle-eyed viewers will know, we’ve managed to miss some videos in the last week, after a trip to San Diego went a bit sideways. Because we don’t want to impact our regular content with what happened (although it will play a part next week), we decided it was worth having a…
From Transport Evolved. As the world shifts toward a more electrified future, the stability of our power grids have become a defining challenge of modern energy management. For decades, grid operators relied on load shedding — the controlled, often frustrating process of cutting power to specific areas — as a last-resort tool to prevent a…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to this week’s episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! On today’s show: Canada brings back EV incentives, Waymo hits a Child, and at a recent automotive Pwn2Own, a team gets Doom running on a fast charger. These stories and much more! Find full show notes, links to covered stories, and…
From Transport Evolved. It’s more than 15 years since the first Nissan LEAF rolled off the production line. Brought into existence before the Tesla Model S, and offering family-focused EV driving long before most automakers even had EV plans, the LEAF defined an early generation of EV adopters. But it wasn’t without its flaws: battery…
From Transport Evolved. We’ve re-written this introduction a few dozen times. We tried to make it about the EV world — about how one company’s success didn’t just kick-start a global EV sales race, but also made the world’s wealthiest man. We tried to explain how, enriched by those successes, that same man has used…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to this week’s episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! On today’s show: we learn the Bolt EV really will have a limited production run; Tesla cancels the Model S and Model X to make way for unproven robots; the Trump regime is dealt just desserts after courts strike down attempts to halt already-approved wind…
From Transport Evolved. At the very end of last year (okay, technically we published it at the start of this one – https://youtu.be/MHRYk8dJ9fY ), we shared the Home Assistant + Node-RED integration we’d been working on to get our JuiceBox EVSEs—fitted with Open EVSE hardware—working with load-sharing again. After a few weeks of testing, Nikki…
From Transport Evolved. In early October last year, we headed down to Los Angeles to see — and drive — the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt EV for the first time. Based on the now-discontinued 2023 Bolt EUV, but with a new battery pack, drivetrain, and power electronics, the 2027 Bolt EV seemed to tick plenty of…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to this week’s episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! On today’s show: Volvo unveils the EX60 and EX60 Cross Country, U.S. lawmakers move to strip nearly $880 million in already authorized EV charging funding from federal spending bills, and researchers at TU/e Eindhoven preview a future of repair-friendly electric vehicles with a…
From Transport Evolved. Not so long ago, most vehicles operated in a fairly standard way. From gear levers to pedals, indicators to warning lights, many of the basics were obvious — even if you’d never driven that exact model before. But as technology has progressed and automakers have added more and more features, even simple…
From Transport Evolved. The Lucid Air Touring: So Very British, and Quite Jaguar-Like Usually, automakers insist on giving us the most expensive versions of their vehicles to test — so much so that many don’t even put their entry-level or commercial models into their press fleets at all. But Lucid did something a little different.…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to this week’s episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! On today’s show: Kia launched the EV2 in Brussels, Canada sidesteps problems with the U.S. and signs a new EV import deal with China – and the U.S. EPA now says it will no-longer take social and health costs associated with pollution…
From Transport Evolved. For decades, the U.S. auto industry has depended on Canada and Mexico for parts, production, and trade. But under the second Trump presidency — amid increasingly aggressive trade policies and even rhetoric questioning long-standing international norms — Canada is beginning to loosen its deeply intertwined relationship with the U.S. auto sector. As…
From Transport Evolved. The last few weeks in the United States — and in many other parts of the world — have been especially challenging for people of good conscience. Alongside deeply troubling threats to civil liberties, we’ve seen communities targeted, opponents threatened, and rhetoric pushed to extremes. While not everyone who watches Transport Evolved shares the…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to this week’s episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! On today’s show: BYD overtakes Tesla as the world’s largest EV maker, Volkswagen reveals a retro-styled, skeuomorphic dashboard for the ID. Polo, and Verge shakes up the industry by making solid-state batteries standard on its TS Pro electric motorcycle this year. Find full…
From Transport Evolved. As regulars to the channel will know, when EnelX stopped support for JuiceBox charging stations in late 2024, we were among a group of frustrated former customers who opted to take matters into their own hands and hack their hardware. Having played with juice pass proxy (which worked but required a fair…
From Transport Evolved. Congratulations! You made it to 2026. 🎉 And while the past year saw some forward movement toward a cleaner, greener, safer, and more equitable future, it also brought increased anti-EV sentiment, policies designed to make electric vehicle ownership less appealing, and automakers quietly walking back their all-electric promises. Add in rising costs of living,…
From Transport Evolved. Happy new Year! It’s 2026 – and hopefully for many of you it’s time for a new start. But new starts are nothing if we don’t remember what went before, and in the U.S., that means looking back on 2025 and some of the horrid things that happened in the EV and…
From Transport Evolved. In 2022, Ford launched its first all-electric F-150, the F-150 Lightning. Their second all-electric pickup ever (after the limited-production Ranger Electric at the turn of the century), the Lightning promised a new era where full-size electric trucks could match—or even outperform—their gasoline counterparts. It wasn’t just about driving: with its massive battery,…
From Transport Evolved. We’re getting to the end of the year, and usually around this time we make a video explaining what’s been going on behind the scenes — where our support has come from, and what we’ve spent it on. But in a world where costs are rising everywhere — where U.S. health insurance…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to this week’s episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! It’s the end of 2025 – and we’re all pretty exhausted. So, while the team is off for two weeks, here’s a clip show with a twist: some of our favorite "And Finally’ Stories from TEN in 2025. While not all our…
From Transport Evolved. Happy Holidays! It’s that magical time of year when, for those in the Northern Hemisphere, thoughts turn to winter wonderlands and, for many, the dream of a white Christmas. But what if you could experience snow… in the middle of August? Up north, no less? That’s exactly what our guests did—they took…
From Transport Evolved. New tools, new workspace, and a stalled electric motorcycle project—welcome to Nikki’s AuDHD side quests. We’re now officially into the holiday season, which means a little extra time off work. While Nikki and the team are taking the next two weeks off, we’ve still got some fun—and slightly different—videos lined up this…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to this week’s episode of TEN — Transport Evolved News! Today on the show: Ford kills the F150 Lightning EV, cancels its T3, and future electric van projects – while refusing to bring the Ranger PHEV to the U.S., promising a plug-in hybrid Lightning (EREV) to replace the EV variant – and…
From Transport Evolved. Are electric vehicles actually "silent killers" stalking our streets? The internet comments section certainly thinks so, claiming the quiet motors and heavy batteries of EVs make them a menace to pedestrians. But a brand new study published in Nature Communications has crunched the numbers from the UK’s road safety database, and the…
From Transport Evolved. This video was originally filmed as a review of the 2025 F150 Lightning Lariat — but the day we were due to publish it, Ford unceremoniously canceled all future F150 Lightnings – and instead promised the name plate would be added to a plug-in hybrid instead. We’ve got some pretty strong feelings…
From Transport Evolved. There are plenty of benefits for Ford F150 Lightning owners thanks to the truck’s close relationship with the gasoline F150—from shared components to a wealth of aftermarket add-ons. But the Lightning also inherits one less desirable trait: its massive shifter. Designed to auto-fold so the center console can become a makeshift desk…