The 2022 Rivian R1T electric pickup truck draws a lot of attention for a lot of reasons. Around town, the traditional pickup truck style finds the future with LED light bars ringing the rounded edges of the truck. On the road, it makes 3.0-second 0-60 mph acceleration runs look effortless. Off-road, its prodigious capability and quiet footfalls… More…
GM’s BrightDrop lands fleet juggernaut in Verizon as its first EV410 eLCV customer
Following a progress update of its upcoming EV600 electric Light Commercial Vehicle (eLCV), BrightDrop has unveiled a second EV to follow. General Motors’ newly dedicated commercial EV and logistics company has now shared a glimpse of the BrightDrop’s EV410, a smaller version of its flagship eLCV, and announced that Verizon is locked in as the vehicle’s first customer More…
2022 Rivian R1T First Drive Review: Electric Off-Road Dominance
Move over Jeep, et al., there’s a new king of the hill in town. More…
Pro Driver Has Yoke-Related Issues Drifting Tesla Model S Plaid
The new Plaid sedan is eager to slide its tail out, but controlling the slide with the yoke isn’t ideal. More…
US: SK Innovation Announces Five Battery Plants And 150 GWh/Year
The company has ambitions to become the largest battery maker in the U.S. More…
Total to install 11,000 public charge points in China
Total is to build a charging network in China. Through a 50:50 joint venture with the state-owned utility China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG), more than 11,000 public charging points with 60 to 120 kW are to be installed in Hubei province by 2025. Strictly speaking, the joint venture between Total and CTG is being set […] More…
Lyten to launch Li-S battery for 2025/26
The new battery material company Lyten from Silicon Valley presents a lithium-sulphur battery platform for electric vehicles. With this, a gravimetric energy density of 900 Wh/kg is to be achieved. Lyten expects the start of production and market availability in 2025/26. Lyten says it laid the foundation for the Li-S platform, called LytCell EV, by […] More…
UK Fuel Shortage Leads To 1,600% Surge In EV Online Searches
Online interest for electric cars exploded to 16 times the average volume in a single day. More…
Does The Mission R Racing Concept Preview A Production Porsche EV?
We’ll explain why we think it just might. More…
Mahle & Bramble to extend hydrogen cooperation
Mahle Powertrain and Bramble Energy have agreed to continue their collaboration to develop Bramble’s PCBFC hydrogen fuel cell technology. The phase 1 demonstrator vehicle was launched at the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle show. The initial phase 1 results of the collaboration are based around the modification of a Renault Kangoo ZE with a 5 kW […] More…
Tesla plans to add ~1,000 new Full Self-Driving Beta testers per day based on ‘safety score’
Elon Musk announced that Tesla plans to start adding ~1,000 new Full Self-Driving Beta testers per day based on their “safety score” starting next week More…
Volvo Buses presents new electric bus chassis
Volvo Buses is introducing a new chassis for electric buses called BZL Electric. It is designed for both single and double-decker buses with several options for bodybuilders and features a powertrain developed entirely by Volvo. According to Volvo, the new chassis is based on proven and successful technologies already in use in Europe. At its […] More…
Ford & SKI to build 4 e-mobility plants in the USA
Ford announces a massive expansion of its electric vehicle business. Together with battery partner SK Innovation (SKI), Ford will invest 11.4 billion US dollars in the construction of second new sites with assembly and battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky. Operations are scheduled to begin in 2025. The investments will go towards a total of […] More…
Tesla Files New Trademark Application For Cyberquad, Is It Coming?
Trademark registration for Cyberquad-branded apparel suggests the all-electric ATV is inching closer to production. More…
Ford commits $11.4B toward US electric truck factory, three battery plants
Ford on Monday announced its largest single manufacturing investment ever—$11.4 billion, which will include the creation of nearly 11,000 new jobs at two mammoth manufacturing complexes in Tennessee and Kentucky. The announcement was coordinated with a somewhat stepped-up target: Ford now plans for 40 to 50 percent of its global vehicle… More…
Ford announces giant new electric pickup truck factory plus three new battery gigafactories
Ford made a massive announcement today about accelerating electric vehicle production with a giant new factory to produce electric pickup trucks in Tennessee and three new battery gigafactories More…
Ford Announces Massive EV Investments In Tennessee And Kentucky
The company will build its largest auto production complex and a total of three battery gigafactories (with SK Innovation). More…
Tesla Cyberquad is alive, new trademark application for the electric ATV
We haven’t heard anything about the Tesla Cyberquad since it was unveiled, but it is apparently still alive as the automaker applied for a new trademark application for the electric ATV More…
The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK
A 10.5 gigawatt (GW) solar and wind farm will be built in Morocco’s Guelmim-Oued Noun region, and it will supply the UK with clean energy via subsea cables. The twin 1.8 GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables will be the world’s longest More…
Check Out Ford F-150 Lightning In-Person Review, Driving Footage
A happy wife is a happy life. What does the lady think of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck? More…
