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!
From Tesla to Toyota and Faraday Future to Ford, we provide analysis and insight in a balanced and independent way.
From Transport Evolved. Automakers have put out an ever expanding range of electric vehicles. And those EVs are available at more price points and abilities than we’ve had at any point in the market before. And yet, many automakers are reluctant to have you buy their EVs. Why? Nikki digs in. —- 00:00 – Introduction…
From Transport Evolved. Disclaimer: While this video is NOT sponsored, Calpha solar provided us with seven solar panels and a solar power inverter to allow us to carry out this long-term evaluation. — We’ve been operating solar panels at the Transport Evolved headquarters for many years, but given our massive electricity bill, we’re always on…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to today’s show! On today’s show: Porsche unveils the Macan EV, Tesla posts its Quarterly and year-end profits, and Aptera shares more information about its battery partnership. These stories, and many more on today’s show! —– Here are today’s show sponsors: – Electric Vehicle Association – Head to https://www.myeva.org — EnergySage…
From Transport Evolved. Nikki’s just received a customer satisfaction program letter from Ford – it’s not a recall, but what IS it for? – Plus how to reset a bothersome F150 Lightning Home Integration System! — 00:00 – Introduction 01:26 – "Not A Recall" 01:48 – Details of the Customer Satisfaction Program Issue 02:38 –…
From Transport Evolved. Things got very cold in Chicago recently. Spurred on by some high profile supercharger failures there, but also because of similar problems seen across a variety of brands and charging networks, the news filled with a spate of news stories about how EVs just don’t work in the cold. But we know…
From Transport Evolved. Last year, Hyundai Motors Group (Hyundai-Kia-Genesis) vehicle sales combined placed the group in second place in North America for sales, beating both the electric vehicle sales figures from Ford and General Motors. Yet unlike Ford, GM, and Tesla, which made and sold some vehicles that were eligible for U.S. Federal Tax Credits…
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From Transport Evolved. Elon Musk has done a lot for Tesla over the years – and he’s been instrumental in many of the company’s biggest products and decisions. But on Monday this week, Musk appeared to make a thinly veiled threat to Tesla, its board of Directors and shareholders: Give him more controlling vote in…
From Transport Evolved. We’re often asked which charging stations new EV owners should buy – and we’ve got a pretty good list of charging stations we’re fans of. The JuiceBox Charging stations used to be at the top of our list, thanks to their open-sourced origins, their ability to integrate with home automation systems, and…
From Transport Evolved. It’s time for our January 2024 LIvestream! Join Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield she gives you some updates from the channel, detail some of the things that are coming down the pipeline, and much more besides. ——— Presenter: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield and Kate Walton-Elliott Art and Animation: Erin Carlie © Transport Evolved LLC, 2024 ———- Join…
From Transport Evolved. Today’s video is sponsored by EnergySage and its new Heat Pump Marketplace. – Start your journey to a cleaner, greener future by heading to https://www.energysage.com/p/transportevolved (solar) or https://heatpumps.energysage.com/?rc=p-transportevolved for Energy Sage’s brand-new Heat Pump Marketplace. —- We’ve had a lot of super-cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere of late, and with many…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to today’s show! This week, lots of news from CES 2024, 600,000 RAM pickups recalled due to Dieselgate, and the Tesla Model 3s going for a song! These stories, and many more on today’s show! —– Here are today’s show sponsors: – Electric Vehicle Association – Head to https://www.myeva.org — EnergySage…
From Transport Evolved. This week, during CES 2024, Volkswagen confirmed that it would be bringing ChatGPT integration into its in-car voice assistant for MEB-based EVs and some of its newer internal combustion engine models. But is Chat GPT really a good idea for a car? Is it needed? Is it just another way to make…
From Transport Evolved. Just before Christmas 2023, SAE released the first specification for the new J3400, or NACS, charging system that’s becoming the standard in the US. What does that mean for new and legacy vehicles? We dive in. Note: This is a reupload to fix a brief rendering error. —- 00:00 – Introduction 01:22…
From Transport Evolved. Modern electric cars have the capability to add new features and fix faults using over-the-air software updates. Even some internal combustion engine models are now getting OTA updates. But what happens when an OTA update goes wrong? What happens next? And how can you insulate yourself from potential problems? Let’s take a…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to today’s show! This week, Tesla hits a new record on sales and production, Ford puts the price of the F150 Lightning up (again), and one year after his death, we look at Ken Block’s final Electrikhana. These stories, and many more on today’s show! —– Here are today’s show sponsors:…
From Transport Evolved. Diesel engines have been around for almost as long as gasoline engines, and while gasoline engines have been preferred in cars and personal vehicles for many years, Diesel is still used extensively for larger vehicles. But with yet another company accused of cheating in emissions testing (Cummins, which settled out of court…
From Transport Evolved. There’s a persistent piece of disinformation that we know isn’t the case – the claim that EV batteries need to replaced frequently and after very short distances. Lots of research shows that isn’t the case, but the last few years have seen several high profile battery recalls from multiple manufacturers. So what’s…
From Transport Evolved. It’s the end of 2023 (or the start of 2024, depending on where and when you’re watching), and it’s time to say goodbye to our video output for the year. And, because nobody wants to be at work on New Years, here’s a little fun video proving that we rarely get things…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to today’s show! This week, we look back at 2023, with 12 different stories (one from each month) representing the more than 2,000 stories we’ve covered this year. Thank you for supporting the channel – and here’s to 2024! —– Here are today’s show sponsors: – Electric Vehicle Association – Head…
From Transport Evolved. We view everyone who supports the channel through Patreon, YouTube, or buying swag from our store as having a bested interest in how Transport Evolved is operated. And while we refrain from giving dollar amounts, we’ve tried to give an update every December on how things have gone during the year, with…
From Transport Evolved. M (Michael), our Director of Photography, has been driving a 2012 Chevrolet Volt since shortly before joining the company back in 2021. But in the last year, it’s been increasingly problematic, suffering complex faults until a few months ago, when it threw so many errors it was becoming unsafe and impractical to…
From Transport Evolved. Nikki is, as she’s happy to admit, quite the nerd, and one of her favorite pastimes is making her home smarter using in-house home automation that relies very little on anything in the cloud. So today, (Happy Hollidays!) she’s giving you a quick tour of some of the things she’s recently set…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to today’s show! This week, Tesla’s NACS charging protocol becomes an official SAE standard (J3400), Kia Canada faces accusations of delaying deliveries until next year, and Chris and Julie Ramsey make it to the South Pole in their Nissan Ariya EV! These stories, and many more on today’s show! —– Here…
From Transport Evolved. We’re edging ever closer to the Christmas holiday – and for some of you, that will mean driving somewhere in pretty poor weather. If this is your first year of EV ownership, this might, as a consequence, be the first time you’ve had to drive your EV in snow. And while some…
From Transport Evolved. While we’re winding down for the holidays – and many of our videos are less time-sensitive than usual, we heard from so many of you in the last week about a Hyundai IONIQ 5 EV owner in Canada – and the $60,000 Canadian quote he got for replacing his car’s battery pack……
From Transport Evolved. Last week, COP 28 came to a close, with negotiations running over (as has become customary in the last decade). But with different countries pushing back on various proposals, the language of the agreement treated by many nations as a ‘rough suggestion’ and many of the world’s oil producers increasing rather than…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to today’s show! This week, Tesla is forced to issue an OTA Update, COP 28 ends with little to look forward to, and a new conversion company in Germany could make EV ownership cheaper. These stories, and many more on today’s show! —– Here are today’s show sponsors: – Electric Vehicle…
From Transport Evolved. We’ve driven plenty of different electric vehicles this year, but as 2023 comes to a close, we’re spending time with a car that irked us when it was revealed last year. A car that we didn’t think we’d like on paper. But everything about the IONIQ 6 surprised us – and in…
From Transport Evolved. We’re big fans of open-source and reverse-engineered projects on this channel, and have used our fair-share of open-source projects to make our lives a little bit better and more convenient. Some of them include projects like Home Assistant (https://github.com/home-assistant), OnStar2MQTT (https://github.com/michaelwoods/onstar2mqtt/blob/main/HA-MQTT.md), FordPass-HA (https://github.com/itchannel/fordpass-ha), and many others. But earlier this autumn, a home…
From Transport Evolved. A viewer pointed us to a paper from the Texas Public Policy foundation in which they claim that the real cost per mile for EVs is much, much higher than any number we’ve seen from any other calculations. It seemed…odd, and so, at his request we took a look. —- 00:00 –…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to today’s show! This week, Fiat confirms the Fiat 500e prices and specs for North America, Our Next Energy makes a BMW iX go very far, and EV Sales go up for November —– Here are today’s show sponsors: – Electric Vehicle Association – Head to https://www.myeva.org — EnergySage – Start…
From Transport Evolved. On Thursday last week, Tesla unveiled its production version of Cybertruck, and began deliveries of the same. Four years after it was first revealed as a prototype however, lots has changed – from the range and specs to vehicle size and price. While we covered some of the news from the event…
From Transport Evolved. Electric vehicles are too heavy, so goes the chant from certain members of the press. Not only that, but electric vehicle weight is a huge problem for roads, for safety, for all our infrastructure. It’s insoluble! We should just keep driving gas cars… …only that’s not the case, but there is something…
From Transport Evolved. Editorial: Hi everyone. Nikki here. Here’s a re-uploaded version of our livestream from earlier, with comments disabled. After the livestream originally aired, we were inundated with many, many hateful comments directed at M and their partner. Our moderation in-box was heaving, and in our fluster we accidentally deleted the video instead of…
From Transport Evolved. M’s car is now officially being classified by the dealership as uneconomical to repair. Here’s how you can help. The link to their crowdfunding is here: https://gofund.me/f1c6703a
From Transport Evolved. Listen to most major news outlets (and plenty of anti-EV sorts) and you’ll very quickly hear about massive numbers of electric vehicles sitting on dealer lots, with nobody willing to buy them. Sometimes, the increased numbers of EVs on dealer lots are used to exemplify the conceit that nobody wants to buy…
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From Transport Evolved. One of the reasons Nikki decided to buy a Ford F150 Lightning Lariat Extended Range pickup was so she could run her rural home in a power cut directly from the truck. But ever since her Ford Charge Station Pro and Ford Home Integration System was installed, she’s had mixed results when…
From Transport Evolved. A little while ago MIT published a paper on Concrete Supercapacitors – and you all asked us to look a little deeper into it. What does this simple, cheap energy storage solution mean, how could it work, and how good is it? We run the numbers and see whether this technique could…
From Transport Evolved. 2023 has been full of investment in and development of semi-autonomous vehicle technology, mostly level 2 – but with some level 3 capabilities thrown into the mix. It’s also been a year of broken promises from numerous autonomous vehicle startups, mainstream automakers, and newer companies wanting to revolutionize the way we travel.…
From Transport Evolved. Mercedes-Benz has quickly pushed out a range of different electric vehicles in the last few years, from its oh-so-expensive EQS and sibling EQS SUV through to its more bank-balance friendly EQA and EQB. Earlier this year, we put the EQE through its paces, Merc’s E-class EV. And now we’re getting our hands…
From Transport Evolved. Today is U.S. Thanksgiving, and in keeping with our tradition at the channel, we’re detailing some of the things we’re thankful for this year (other than you all, of course!) —— Find our postal address: https://www.transportevolved.com Buy one of our Halloween T-Shirts: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/153008127 —– Script: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Presenters: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Editor, Colorist:…
From Transport Evolved. It’s just about that time of year when we start to search for those special holiday gifts for the special people in our lives. Rather than spend money on a trinket that’s forgotten in double-quick time and ends up in landfill, we’ve come up with a list of cool gifts for fans…
From Transport Evolved. We’re in the final two weeks of November, and with Thanksgiving on the way, we felt today was the perfect time to give you our monthly YouTube hangout. Join Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield and Kate Walton-Elliott as they give you some updates from the channel, detail some of the things that are coming down…
From Transport Evolved. Welcome to today’s show! This week, Hyundai unveils the truly mind-blowing IONIQ 5 N, Tesla Cybertruck latest and Paris new parking plans. These stories, and many more on today’s show! —– Here are today’s show sponsors: – Electric Vehicle Association – Head to https://www.myeva.org – -UGears – Find your ideal gift at…
From Transport Evolved. We’re just about two weeks away from the first deliveries of Tesla’s Cybertruck, but we’ve also started to see an increase in speculation about the truck and its impact on the market. Earlier this week, Tesla’s online sales contract seemed to suggest it would ask Cybertruck customers to not sell their vehicles…
From Transport Evolved. Earlier this year, multiple legacy automakers announced their intent to switch from CCS Type 1 in North America to NACS – Tesla’s Supercharger inlet. Now, as we approach the end of the year, the majority of automakers that supply North American customers have announced their intent to switch to NACS, and, come…
From Transport Evolved. It’s been a month or so since we first purchased our 16-year old Vectrix VX-1 Electric Maxi Scooter, and in the time since, we’ve carried out some basic maintenance. But with winter on the way and range really not the best for practical riding (outside of a quick trip to the local…