This is a site about electric cars. The good ones, the bad ones, and the ones being sold as the future before they’ve figured out the present.
NEB stands for Not Enough Battery. The name tells you the attitude. We’re not an EV fan site. We follow electric cars closely because they’re changing the car world, and we don’t buy half of what gets said about them.
Electric makes sense. Being told to buy one doesn’t.
Why Not Enough Battery exists
Because it’s become almost impossible to talk about electric cars like a normal person. One side treats them as a moral duty. The other side hates them without ever having driven one. And in the middle, plenty of outlets take the automaker’s press release, change three words and call it news.
If you actually want to know what’s going on, good luck. Between paid-for hype and talk-radio outrage, somebody has to just tell it straight.
That’s the job. The whole electric world, the wins and the train wrecks, with no brand signing our checks and no problem saying something doesn’t work when it doesn’t.
What we cover
Cars, first. Fully electric ones under EV. Regular hybrids, plug-ins and range extenders under Hybrids, because that’s where the smartest engineering and the sneakiest marketing live side by side. Seven-figure monsters under Hypercars. And the tiny city cars most Americans have never seen, under Microcars.
Everything with a battery that gets around town on fewer than four wheels lives under Urban mobility: motorcycles, e-bikes and scooters, what’s worth your money and what ends up dumped on a sidewalk.
Who builds them, under Brands. The cars that may never hit the road, under Prototypes & Concepts. What’s under the skin —batteries, motors, charging, software— under Technology, explained without the engineering degree.
Where it all came from, under History. The people moving this world, under The Grid. The arguments nobody ever settles, under The Big Debate. And the practical stuff, how to charge and how to make the battery last, under Electroskills.
The history almost nobody tells you
The electric car wasn’t born in Silicon Valley. On April 29, 1899, at Achères, just outside Paris, Belgian driver Camille Jenatzy became the first person in automotive history to top 100 km/h, about 62 mph. His car, La Jamais Contente, was a torpedo packed with batteries. The first car to break that barrier was electric.
And it wasn’t a fluke. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, by 1900 electric cars made up around a third of the vehicles on American roads. New York City had a fleet of more than 60 electric taxis.
Then they vanished. Then they came back. Then somebody killed them again. That cycle of deaths and comebacks explains a lot of what’s happening right now, and we tell the whole story.
What you won’t find here
Advertorials dressed up as articles. If an automaker wants to say nice things about itself, it has a website and a PR department.
Lectures. We’re not going to tell you which car makes you a better person. We’re not going to mock you for driving a V8 pickup either.
Who’s behind it
NEB grew out of Not Enough Cylinders, a Spanish site about combustion engines and the cars that made history. We come from the gasoline side, which is exactly why we look at EVs with neither blind faith nor knee-jerk hate.
We’re based in Spain, so you get a European read on an industry that too often gets covered as if it began and ended with Tesla and Detroit.
When we can, we ask the people who actually built the thing: founders, engineers, designers. And if we can’t verify it, we don’t publish it.
We’re not right about everything
We’ll get things wrong. When we do, we fix it, no drama. If you think something we published isn’t accurate, write to us. If you disagree with an opinion, even better. That’s what The Big Debate is for.
This is a place for people who love cars. The ones with an engine, the ones with a battery, and the ones with both.
Unplug and enjoy.