Tesla vehicles are increasing Hertz’s customer satisfaction as the company gets better use of electric vehicles. The rental car company is also adding more EVs to its fleet. More…
Tesla Reportedly Looking To Change Giga Press Suppliers
The automaker is said to be in talks with Switzerland’s Bühler, according to industry watcher.More…
Exclusive: F-150 Lightning Discussion With Ford Model e VP, Darren Palmer
We discuss a wide range of topics from charging to towing and even get a hint of things to come from ford.More…
Global Plug-In Electric Car Sales Reached New Record In June 2022: Over 913,000
Two Tesla models are at the top for the month and year-to-date.More…
Autonomy Adds Tesla Model Y To Its EV Subscription Service
In addition to its growing Tesla fleet, Autonomy plans to order 23,000 electric vehicles from other startups and legacy automakers.More…
Latest NIO rumors: First phone to arrive next year plus a third brand targeting $15k EVs
An ever-evolving stream of rumors continues to emerge from China around EV automaker NIO and what it will be delivering next. Following reports earlier this year that NIO would be developing its own phones, we’ve gathered the latest updates, as well as the automaker’s rumored plans for an additional brand aimed at delivering EV’s priced between $15,000-$30,000. More…
2023 BMW i4 eDrive35 Announced In The US As $52,395 Base Model
Even though it is less powerful than the i4 eDrive40, it’s almost exactly as quick.More…
Jaguar I-Pace catches on fire again – is this another Bolt EV battery fire situation?
Another Jaguar I-Pace battery caught on fire without any crash after simply sitting charging in a garage. This is the fourth known I-Pace battery fire that seemingly started on its own, which is starting to be significant considering the relatively small number of units on the roads. More…
Nikola acquires Romeo Power to develop and produce its own EV batteries in-house
Commercial EV manufacturer Nikola Corporation announced it has signed an agreement to acquire EV battery developer Romeo Power Inc. Nikola will absorb Romeo’s battery manufacturing facility in Southern California and begin engineering its own EV packs in-house. More…
Arcimoto’s Cybertrike Is The Newest Tilting Three-Wheeler Prototype
Each of the three wheels will get an electric motor and torque vectoring technology.More…
Quantumscape Q2 2022 report: 24-layer solid-state cells, scaled manufacturing, and two new OEM customers
Solid-state battery manufacturer Quantumscape has released its second quarterly report for 2022, updating the public to its progress in scaling affordable, energy dense cells for future EVs. The company continues to expand the amount of layers possible in its solid-state cell technology, while simultaneously preparing for scaled assembly for a growing list of OEMs. Here’s the latest. More…
China: Plug-In Car Sales Reached New Monthly Record In June 2022
The volume more than doubled year-over-year, exceeding 565,000.More…
Tesla Rapidly Expanding Superchargers, 100 Now Open In Beijing Alone
Tesla continues to expand the network quickly across the globe, with 34% growth year-over-year.More…
UPDATE: How About A Smaller Tesla Cybertruck Built On Model Y Platform?
Tesla could potentially bring it to market quickly while people wait for the much larger Cybertruck to go into production.More…
Volkswagen Group Unveils Its First Electric Flying Taxi Prototype
The V.MO validation prototype is an all-electric drone with eight rotors for vertical lift and two propellers for horizontal flight.More…
After Bolt bolted from 5 US cities, who gets to take its abandoned electric bikes?
In another example of reality sometimes being stranger than fiction, electric scooter and e-bike sharing company Bolt Mobility appears to have shut down operations in several US cities largely overnight. In doing so, it abandoned hundreds of thousands of dollars of light electric vehicles on the streets. More…
Is X Shore launching a new electric boat? These teaser images sure seem like it
X Shore is one of several electric boat manufacturers helping to turn the tide on fossil fuel-based boating. The Swedish company’s X Shore Eelex 8000 is already a striking example of what can be done with an electric powertrain in a sleekly designed watercraft. But new teaser images released by the company show that “something new” is coming, and it might mean the Eelex 8000 is getting a sister. More…
Review: 2023 BMW iX is charmingly offbeat, delivers on range ratings
Think EVs are becoming normal? Turning heads inside and outside, and flaunting equal parts tech leading edge and design oddity, the 2023 BMW iX is anything but conventional. And, as I found in a recent week with the iX, this kind of weirdness grew on me. The BMW iX pairs some of the advanced material smarts and the battery and electric propulsion… More…
China to extend sales tax exemption for NEVs to 2023
The Chinese government wants to continue the purchase tax exemption for New Energy Vehicles (BEVs, FCEVs and PHEVs) in 2023. The purchase tax exemption for NEVs in China has been in place since 2014, and with its continuation the government wants to further support the growth of the industry. The purchase tax exemption has been […] More…
Tesla’s Elon Musk Countersues Twitter Over $44 Billion Deal
Musk still believes Twitter is holding out on him and not quickly providing the user data he’s been requesting.More…
