With used-car prices skyrocketing, Tesla is no longer allowing customers to buy cars at the end of leases. “All Tesla vehicles delivered on or after April 15, 2022, are not eligible for purchase,” according to new language on the company’s website first spotted by Electrek. “Third-party dealerships and third-party individuals are not eligible to… More…
Mercedes-Benz officially unveils details of upcoming EQS SUV, arriving in US late 2022
Following two years of teasing the public, Mercedes-Benz has finally pulled the entire sheet off its EQS SUV. When it arrives at dealers toward the end of this year, the new model will be the first SUV on Mercedes’ EQ line to arrive in the US. There’s lots to unfold here, so let’s dig in. More…
Watch Kia Soul EV Battery Degradation Test After 7-Years/60k Miles
It’s the first generation of the car, which appears to suffer from substantial range reduction. More…
Volvo Plug-In Car Sales: Almost 50,000 In Q1 2022
The company struggles with semiconductor supply. More…
Tesla Restarts Production At Giga Shanghai, Workers Sleeping At Factory
Tesla is employing a closed-loop system where employees will eat and sleep at Giga Shanghai amid lockdowns. More…
BP Enters Into Multi-Year Contract For DC Fast Chargers With Tritium
Close to 1,000 chargers will be ordered under the framework agreement. More…
China: Wuling Hong Guang MINI EV Notes Close to 100,000 Sales In Q1 2022
Time passes by, while the Wuling Hong Guang MINI EV remains the best-selling EV in China. More…
BMW Says Tesla’s Electric Vehicle Dominance Is Over
BMW Group sales boss Pieter Nota believes Tesla had a unique selling point for quite some time, but “that’s over.” More…
Ford has stopped accepting US orders for the Mustang Mach-E
Ford has put an order freeze on all variants of the current model year of its all-electric Mustang Mach-E in the US – due to high demand, according to the manufacturer’s website. As Ford writes in the note on the model website, the current model year is no longer available for retail order. “Limited inventory […] More…
Audi presents large electric concept for China titled ‘Urbansphere’
With the Urbansphere Concept, Audi has presented another concept car for an electric model of the future. The interior in particular is designed for “traffic in the megacities of China” – with the largest and most spacious interior of any Audi to date. According to the Ingolstadt-based company, the focus of the concept was on […] More…
Tesla rumoured to delay volume production in Berlin until 2023
According to a media report, Tesla will only produce around 30,000 vehicles in the new factory in Grünheide by the end of the year. Currently, around 350 Model Ys are coming off the production line in Grünheide each week. Tesla wants to increase production to 1,000 per week by the end of April, as Automobilwoche […] More…
Mercedes EQS to release in three variants
Mercedes has presented the EQS SUV, the first SUV model based on the electric EVA2 platform. There will be three drive variants of the luxury SUV at the market launch – more are likely to follow. Originally, the premiere of the EQS SUV was planned for the Beijing auto show – China is likely to […] More…
VW raises electric vehicle deliveries by 65%
The Volkswagen Group increased its deliveries of fully electric vehicles by 65 per cent in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Despite supply bottlenecks for semiconductors and wiring harnesses, 99,100 BEVs were handed over to customers by the end of March. This compares to 60,000 units in […] More…
Audi Urbansphere Concept Debuts As Self-Driving Electric Minivan
The roomiest Audi ever measures 216.9 inches in length and 133.8 inches between the axles but only seats four, so what gives? More…
Breakthrough for lithium-sulphur batteries
A cell technology holding 900 Wh/kg – three times the energy density of state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery chemistries – that is safer and cheaper thanks to the use of abundant and easily accessible sulphur for the cathode in place of nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) is an exciting prospect (writes Peter Donaldson). Batteries that use sulphur […] More…
VW CEO Talks EVs, US Challenges And Tesla In “60 Minutes” Interview
Herbert Diess admits VW “didn’t take the US customer seriously enough,” but it is now committed to becoming relevant again stateside. More…
Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV Arrives With Seven Seats, Up To 410 Miles WLTP Range
It is 7.9 inches taller and a bit shorter than the EQS sedan, but the wheelbase is exactly the same. More…
2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV preview
Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday unveiled the EQS SUV, a higher-riding counterpart to the EQS sedan launched last year. The new model is scheduled to reach United States dealerships later this year, as a 2023 model. The EQS SUV shares Mercedes’ EVA platform with both the EQS and EQE sedans. It also has the same 126-inch wheelbase as the EQS sedan, but is… More…
Tesla (TSLA) Q1 2022 earnings preview: Here’s what to expect
Tesla (TSLA) is set to announce its first-quarter 2022 financial results tomorrow, April 20, after the markets close. As usual, a conference call and Q&A with Tesla’s management is scheduled after the results. More…
Nissan & partners to develop lunar rover
Nissan North America, along with partners Sierra Space and Teledyne Brown Engineering, will develop the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) for NASA to support future lunar exploration. Details of the planned lunar rover are not yet given, but it is expected to be electric. Nissan had already presented the prototype for a lunar rover a few […] More…
