FAW Jiefang, the commercial vehicle division of the Chinese FAW Group, has established a new business unit for electrified vehicles and presented the plans for this. The new brand will include all ‘New Energy Vehicles’; battery-electric vehicles, hybrids as well as hydrogen-powered vehicles. The company now aims to achieve sales of 120,000 vehicles with New […] More…
Bjørn Nyland Checks Out Solid-State Battery-Powered Mercedes eCitaro
It’s equipped with Lithium Metal Polymer (LMP) batteries. More…
Just 50 Special Edition Skoda Enyaq iVs Headed To UK
The Founders Edition is marked out by fancy exterior trim and an illuminated grille. More…
Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe PHEV Debuts With 25-Mile Electric Range
The Grand Cherokee 4xe has all the traits you’d expect from this model, but with a powerful PHEV powertrain instead of a V6 or V8. More…
GM’s Ultifi Software Platform To Bring Smartphone-Like OTA Updates
To be used by select GM electric and ICE vehicles from 2023, Ultifi also has potential for face recognition and V2X applications. More…
Rolls-Royce Spectre due in 2023 will lead brand all-electric by 2030
The British ua-luxury brand Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, owned by Germany’s BMW, has confirmed a model name—Spectre—an arrival time of late 2023, and much more for its first electric car. That part fulfills a promise already made by the brand’s CEO, although perhaps to a stepped-up timeline. But a larger statement took top… More…
Genesis GV60 Detailed With 429 HP Dual-Motor, Drift Mode
The manufacturer sheds more light on the Ioniq 5 and EV6’s posh brother. More…
Tesla starts suing former customers for defamation in China
Tesla appears to be going on the offensive in China as it is reportedly suing two former customers for defamation over comments they have made about the automotive brand. More…
Genesis presents the GV60 800-volt electric SUV
Hyundai’s luxury brand Genesis has revealed details of the technology and equipment of the planned GV60 – its first electric model based on the group’s E-GMP platform. The 800-volt electric car will be launched in three variants and will feature a number of technological refinements. A few weeks ago, Genesis had already published first photos […] More…
Audi’s brake booster causes e-tron recall
Audi is recalling 2,303 units of its e-tron electric model worldwide due to problems with the brake booster. The brake booster, ABS and ESP may fail. In Germany, 336 vehicles are likely to be affected, and 38 in the USA. Unlike the series of recalls that recently have been caused by batteries, affecting vehicles around […] More…
Tesla Owners Need A High Safety Score If They Want FSD Beta
Tesla will soon be giving 1,000 owners per day access to Full Self-Driving beta. More…
Ford Mustang Mach-E Gets More Usable Battery and Range For 2022
It’s a small increase but anything is welcomed. More…
2023 Genesis GV60 up close: With facial recognition and a drift mode, it’s luxury with hijinks
Following in the footsteps of the more mainstream Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 is the 2023 Genesis GV60, the third vehicle revealed from the Korean automakers to ride on their shared E-GMP modular platform. The GV60 is why I was recently in Orange County, Calif. again near Hyundai’s headquarters (at the same studio in which I saw the Ioniq… More…
Check out the absurdly fast 60 MPH standing electric scooters built for the eSC racing league
They say the first car race occurred shortly after the second car was built. Speed junkies have long created races around just about every form of transportation out there, so it comes as no surprise that electric scooter racing would eventually pop up. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: September 29, 2021
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…
Kia EV6 Prototype Fast Charging Analysis: Very Fast But Quirky
The fast charging curve is highly volatile, but maybe will be smoothened in the production version. More…
Some Dealers Are Buying Up Chevy Bolts Hoping For A Buyback
This was unexpected. More…
Cake raises $60 million for expansion
Swedish light electric motorbike manufacturer Cake has raised $60 million in fresh capital. Cake plans to use the capital to invest in expanding its product offering and distribution network. The amount is made up of $14 million in convertible bonds and a $46 million financing round. The funding round included “strong support” from current shareholders […] More…
2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E comes with more usable battery capacity and longer range
The 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E is going to come with more usable battery capacity, resulting in a longer range, according to the new order guide More…
Tesla Safety Score: Speed, Ignore Red Lights, But Don’t Brake!
Tesla has said the Safety Score is beta and needs tweaking, but it’s interesting to see what it considers good driving. More…
