• News aggregator on electric cars and electric vehicles (cars, motorcycles, boats, planes).

Tell your friends about EVs: Study suggests automakers still aren’t getting the word out


Electric vehicles make a lot of sense for the pragmatic aspects: their ownership costs and environmental advantages. But once you’re in one, everything changes. As results from J.D. Power’s U.S. Electric Vehicle Consideration Study indicate, a lot of American consumers still need to simply get a ride in an EV. The firm, in the study… More…

Wait, weight: DC to charge heavy-duty trucks more to drive, with an EV kicker


A proposal to curb the use of heavy-duty pickup trucks on city streets could also impact EVs. The District of Columbia could soon require owners of vehicles weighing more than 6,000 pounds to pay a $500 annual registration fee, about seven times the fee for a normal sedan, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The proposal is mainly targeted at heavy-duty… More…

Report: VW seeking separate US factory site for Scout EVs, could include commercial vehicles


Volkswagen is planning a separate United States factory for its planned Scout EV brand, Reuters reported Wednesday. And VW is considering further expanding its U.S. lineup to potentially include more EVs. The automaker plans to decide on a site later this year, VW CEO Herbert Diess said in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the World… More…