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…
Tesla owners are 50% less likely to crash their EV than their other cars
Tesla owners who also drive another vehicle are 50% less likely to have an accident in their Tesla compared to in their other vehicles, according to an interesting new study looking at EV drivers who drive multiple vehicles. More…
First Ford F-150 Lightning Retail Customer Takes Delivery In Michigan
Ford dealers have started to hand over F-150 Lightning pickups to retail customers one year after the model was unveiled. More…
First F-150 Lightning Retail Customer Takes Delivery In Michigan
Ford dealers have started to hand over F-150 Lightning pickups to retail customers one year after the model was unveiled. More…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 26, 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…
Record 2021 Revenues Bump Tesla Up 35 Places On The Fortune 500 List
It has jumped from spot 100 to 65 after its profits went up more than 600 percent last year. More…
EV Vs ICE Parity? A Follow-Up From The Limiting Factor’s Jordan Giesige
Jordan responds to our plea, though more context is needed. More…
Tesla May Follow Through With Musk’s Drive-In Theater Supercharger
Tesla has officially submitted plans to build the sizable and unique Supercharger station in Santa Monica. More…
OL+EM’s Bespoke Titanium E-Bikes Are A Weight Weenie’s Dream Come True
Aerospace-grade titanium, and a frame that’s completely made to order are among the features of this utra-fancy e-bike. More…
Ford starts customer deliveries of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck
The electric pickup trucks are coming. Ford has officially started delivering the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck to retail and fleet customers. More…
Volkswagen Looking At US Sites For New Factory To Build Scout EVs
CEO Herbert Diess reportedly said that VW is assessing “brownfield sites and some greenfield locations.” More…
Lucid Air Is Very Roomy Inside For Its Size, Here’s How They Did It
Peter Rawlinson invites two former basketball players to illustrate the spaciousness. More…
Georgia gives US solar panel manufacturing a big boost with a new factory
Seoul-headquartered PV solar-cell manufacturing giant Q Cells today announced that it’s opening a new solar panel manufacturing facility in Dalton, Georgia. More…
Sandy Munro Begins Rivian R1T Teardown, Starts By Removing The Frunk
Under the frunk he finds lots of cool engineering solutions, but as always, he points to improvements that could still be made. More…
Faraday Future Only Has 401 Preorders For Its FF 91 Flagship EV
That’s a far cry from the 14,000 false reservations Faraday Future claimed to have last year. More…
2022 Kia EV6: Takeaways on real-world range, charging, and livability vs. Ioniq 5
The Kia EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq 5 are two of this year’s most wanted EVs. And with the Ioniq 5 essentially unavailable to those in some regions of the country this year, it may seem to some fixated on the Hyundai that they’ll need to settle for second-best. After spending time recently in both of these models, I can say that while I like… More…
Volkswagen ID.4 GTX completes world record-setting climb 19,000 feet up a volcano
A Volkswagen ID.4 GTX has set a Guinness World Record for the highest altitude achieved in an all-electric passenger vehicle. The ID.4 equipped with Monroe Intelligent Suspension CVSAe technology from Tenneco was driven by international adventure driver and multiple record holder, Rainer Zietlow. More…
Tesla China Houses Workers At Military Campsites And Vacant Buildings
As the automaker works to add a second shift and further ramp up production, it’s moving forward with a dormitory-style plan. More…
Tesla Officially Applies For More Land To Expand The Giga Berlin Plant
Tesla Model Y production at the site now runs two shifts. More…
Tesla moves to expand Gigafactory Berlin on new 250-acre land
Tesla has started to officially move to expand Gigafactory Berlin on a new 250-acre lot with the submission of the construction plan to the municipality. More…
