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The Tesla Model S Plaid Has Ruined Everything, But That’s Ok
The Model S Plaid has reset the concepts of fast and functional. More…
Le Mans Virtual Series Competitors Ready For Round One At Italy’s Temple Of Speed
The race takes place this coming weekend on the rFactor2 platform at the virtual Autodromo Nazionale Monza. More…
Owning Tesla Model 3 & 7-Seat Tesla Model Y: How Do They Compare?
After owning Tesla’s two most popular cars, plus a Model S, this family shares about the Model 3 and Model Y. More…
Evergrande’s Electric Sedan Hengchi 7 Spotted With No Camo
Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group’s first vehicle caught testing, looking remarkably good and finished. More…
Help Promote Tesla & Other EVs: Attend National Drive Electric Week
If you own an electric car, try to make an effort to attend a National Drive Electric Week event near you. More…
Mumbai invites tenders for 1,900 electric buses
Mumbai’s transport authority BEST has invited tenders for 1,900 fully electric buses for Mumbai. BEST, with a present fleet of 386 electric buses, plans to complete procuring these additional buses by mid-2023. The electric buses tendered include 1,400 that are to be 12-metre AC electric buses, 400 will be 9-metre AC electric buses and the […] More…
Battery lifespan project takes shape in the UK
The battery analytics specialist Silver Power System partnered with Imperial College, London EV Company (LEVC) and JSCA, the research and development division of Watt Electric Vehicle Company, on an electric vehicle battery research programme designed to predict battery lifespan. The project will make use of digital twin technology, which simulates a digital counterpart to a […] More…
Lotus reveals lightweight basis for electric sports car, other future EVs
Lotus on Tuesday revealed the platform for a planned electric sports car, codenamed Type 135, due in 2026. Following Lotus founder Colin Chapman’s maxim “simplify, and add lightness,” the new platform emphasizes weight reduction. Known internally as E-Sport, the new platform was developed through Project LEVA (Lightweight Electric Vehicle… More…
Electric Cars Listed By 0-60 MPH Acceleration: Quickest To Slowest
Rivian R1T/R1S turns out to be effectively the least expensive EV in the U.S. that achieves 0-60 mph in 3.0 seconds! More…
Audi Set To Offer 20 EVs By 2025, More Than Any Other Brand
If we take automakers’ promises of EV launches at face value, the Audi brand would have the biggest electric vehicle lineup. More…
Hyundai Set To Offer 23 EVs By 2025, More Than Any Other Brand
If we take automakers’ promises of EV launches at face value, the Hyundai brand will have the biggest electric vehicle lineup. More…
Fassmer & Torqeedo present electric ferry concept
Fassmer Shipyard and Torqeedo have announced an all-electric ferry concept for public transport. The Fassmer CIT-E Ferry can accommodate up to 100 passengers and is to be powered by an integrated propulsion system from Torqeedo. The Deep Blue propulsion system with steerable rudder propeller delivers 100 kW of continuous power and can turn up to […] More…
Drive Electric Week starts Saturday Sept. 25 with online and in-person events
Drive Electric Week kicks off this Saturday with over 200 online and in-person events celebrating electric vehicles. Events will be held for the next two weekends, from September 25th through October 3rd More…
NIO Launches Hybrid-Cell (NCM/LFP) Battery Pack (CTP Type)
It offers a higher capacity and energy density at the same price. More…
Aiming for circular supply chain, Ford partners with former Tesla co-founder’s company
Ford on Wednesday announced plans to partner with Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel’s Redwood Materials on battery recycling. The plan is for recycled materials to be fed back into the United States EV battery supply chain, creating a so-called “closed loop,” according to a Ford press release. This reduces costs, as well as the overall environmental… More…
Michigan joins the race for inductive charging road
Michigan is planning to build the first public road in the United States where electric vehicles can charge wirelessly while driving. However, the competition is on, since Indiana has already begun the first phases of such a project. The ‘Inductive Vehicle Charging Pilot’, announced by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, aims to embed inductive charging technology into […] More…
Xpeng P5 On Navigation Guided Pilot 3.5 Is At Home In The City
This new longer NGP demonstration video shows a surefooted and reliable autonomous driving solution that works in town too. More…
Volkswagen launches construction of battery plant in China
Volkswagen is starting to build a production plant for battery systems in Hefei, China. The factory will initially supply between 150,000 and 180,000 high-voltage battery systems for Volkswagen Anhui’s all-electric MEB vehicles from the second half of 2023. In Hefei, capital of the Chinese province of Anhui, Volkswagen operates an electric vehicle production plant together […] More…
Norway bans gas car sales in 2025, but trends point toward 100% EV sales as early as April
Norway is ahead of the game in EV sales, with gasoline’s share of the new car market vanishing more and more every month, faster than almost anyone outside of Electrek‘s Slack channel could have predicted. This has led Norway to have the earliest target for the phaseout of new gas vehicle sales in the world – 2025 More…
