General Motors confirmed Wednesday that a fully electric version of its Equinox compact SUV will arrive in fall 2023, starting around $30,000. The automaker released the first pictures of the Equinox EV, which looks quite curvier than the company’s current mass-market gasoline crossovers. It could rival the Ford Mustang Mach-E, Hyundai Ioniq… More…
US: Ford Sold Over 27,000 Mustang Mach-E SUVs In 2021
The cumulative production for global markets exceeded 70,000. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: January 5, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. More…
Rivian R1T Review: 0-60 MPH, 1/4 Mile, Off-Road, And Much More
Is Rivian’s all-electric pickup truck a Tesla Cybertruck killer? More…
Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter 3 review: The electronics giant’s latest affordable, fun ridable
The Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter 3 continues to build upon Xiaomi’s strong start in the electric scooter space, making small tweaks to features that needed improvement, yet having enough sense to leave the good stuff alone. The result is an electric scooter that still feels every bit like a Xiaomi, but has now become the company’s best rendition yet. More…
GM unveils sharp-looking Equinox EV starting at game-changing $30,000 price
At CES today, GM unveiled a sharp-looking Equinox EV, which the automaker says will start at just $30,000 – it will be added to the Chevrolet EV lineup in fall 2023. More…
Porsche reveals 2021 sales figures, more than doubles Taycan sales
Porsche just released its 2021 sales figures, and you’d never know there was any kind of supply problems from looking at them. Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) had its best year ever in 2021, up 22 percent from the pandemic-stained 2020 and 14 percent above the record set in 2019. More…
In a ‘world first,’ battery-grade lithium, vital for EVs, is produced from mica in granite
In what it claims is a “world first,” British Lithium has produced lithium at pilot scale from the mica in granite in its new government-backed pilot plant near Roche in Cornwall, England. More…
Mercedes reveals an EQV converted into a camper van
Mercedes-Benz Vans has presented an electric motorhome based on the EQV. The eCamper conversion comes from the Swiss company Sortimo Walter Rüegg AG. The electric camper van is already available and features a pop-up roof, a sleeping unit for the rear and a kitchen module for the boot. As is usual with many camper vans, […] More…
2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV Makes World Debut At CES, Truck Yeah!
Built from the ground up as an EV, the Ultium platform-based Silverado EV should give Ford’s F-150 Lightning a good run for its money. More…
Walmart orders 5,000 BrightDrop EVs, FedEx bumps order
It’s a good day for GM as the company’s BrightDrop brand announces new deals with retail giant Walmart and FedEx. The news comes less than a month after FedEx took delivery of its first batch of BrightDrop EV600 electric vans in Inglewood, California. More…
2024 Chevy Silverado EV: Electric Avalanche heir claims 400 miles, eventual $39,900 base price
GM’s first fully electric Chevy pickup will offer an estimated 400-mile range when it’s delivered next year, with a base model arriving later at $39,900, the company confirmed with a reveal of the truck at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Wednesday. The truck was revealed in coordination with a keynote address from CEO Mary… More…
Walmart Signs Up For 5,000 BrightDrop EVs, FedEx Expands Its Deal
General Motors’s BrightDrop secured more reservations for the EV600 and EV410 models. More…
Rivian R1T Drives Up Steep Snowy Trail At Night Like A Champ
This video really shows off the R1T’s suspension, traction and generally how surefooted it is. More…
Tesla Model S gets 752 miles of range with ONE’s new energy-dense battery pack
Our Next Energy, also known as ONE, installed one of its battery packs in a Tesla Model S and managed to have it travel 752 miles on a single charge. More…
Watch Tesla Model S Plaid Race Harley-Davidson LiveWire Electric Bike
Place your bets, does the electric car or electric motorcycle win this epic EV race? More…
Prototype Battery Powers Tesla Model S For 752 Miles On One Charge
Michigan-based battery startup ONE retrofitted its 207.3 kWh pack in the same space as the Tesla’s original 103.9 kWh battery. More…
Giant’s new 20 mph Momentum e-bikes look so good you’d never know they’re electric
Today marks the launch of two new electric bicycles from Momentum: the Voya E+1 and Voya E+3. More…
Does Mercedes EQXX concept signal a shift to air-cooling for EV batteries?
In the Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX concept car revealed earlier this week, range took center stage, with claims of an astounding 621 real-world miles (or more) from a battery pack of less than 100 kwh—amounting to more than 6 miles per kwh on efficiency terms. Achieving that efficiency took an F1-like level of attention to an array of… More…
US: Porsche Taycan Sales More Than Doubled In 2021
The electric Porsche sales almost matched the Porsche 911. More…
