Electric Vehicles

The wait for the coolest car Elon Musk has ever seen will be a bit longer. Musk said on Twitter that the highly-anticipated Tesla Pickup, which was previously expected to debut during the summer, won’t be shown until “November most likely.”  Musk has said the company aims to...

One of the first companies to create chatter about an electric pickup truck was Bollinger Motors. The public received its first glimpse Bollinger’s “sport-utility truck” concept at a press event in New York in September 2017. Two years later, the company has moved its headquarters from Hobart...

Hi, everyone we've made fun but serious quiz — "Your perfect electric car." Your perfect electric car It's a 1-minute test that helps to find the right electric vehicle according to the given requirements. This is not a final version, and we need feedback from the EV Community. — Is it...

Do ICE cars still have a fill-up time advantage? Yes, of course. But EVs are catching up fast. Previous year's trip: charge times were on average between 35-50 minutes This year's trip: charge times were on average between 15 and 30 minutes Total trip charge time this year : according to A...

Styling cues connect it directly to the 2020 Honda E While offering journalists the first drive on e prototypes, Honda has made it clear that the small EV had an entire platform developed exclusively for it. But that does not make sense from a scale point of view. The more vehicles a platform is...

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Without smart charging during low-demand periods (mostly at night), the power grid will need some upgrades, paid for by consumers.Expansion of electric cars in Norway is expected to cause a necessity to upgrade the power grid, which could cost 11 billion NOK ($1.27 billion) by 2040. The reason...

Google added EV charging stations to Google Maps last October. While that’s a big help, travelers could still find themselves waiting in line for minutes or hours to use the charger. As of Monday, you can now see the real time availability of charging ports in the U.S. and U.K, within Google...

New registrations for electric vehicles in 2018 more than doubled year-over-year, according to a new report from research firm IHS Markit. The firm found that new electric vehicle registrations grew from “just over 100,000” in 2017 to 208,000 in 2018. California led in new EV...

In around 10 years, VW Group intends to produce 11.6 million BEVs in China By the way of the 2019 Shanghai Auto Show, Volkswagen Group announced a bold electrification strategy, which envisions production of 22 million all-electric cars (by all the brands and joint ventures globally) by 2028...

There’s really no way to fairly frame it differently. Tesla is way ahead. While some of us may not be hardcore Tesla fans, or perhaps we even take issue with the automaker for one reason or another, there’s really become almost no way to prove it’s not incredibly far ahead. C’mon, the Silicon...

Everything needs to be buttoned up to the last button Porsche Taycan has entered the final stage of testing before the launch of series production. Tests are conducted in a total of 30 countries at temperatures from minus 35 to plus 50 degree Celsius. The total mileage soon will reach about 6...

The Bolt won’t follow Tesla in a price war as its federal EV tax credit gets cut in half There will soon be less incentive to buy a Chevrolet Bolt. On April 1, the U.S. tax credit for General Motors‘ battery electric vehicle will be cut in half, from $7,500 to $3,750 as the automaker... READ...

The i2 would be totally different from the i3 According to German Manager Magazine, Klaus Fröhlich, a member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Development, hinted at a potential new BMW i model — the i2, which could be launched on the market in 2024 at prices of under €30,000 ($34,000). The...

According to Ford, the two vehicles could even arrive on the market at the same time. Ford says that its first dedicated electric car, which will be a Mustang-inspired plug-in crossover, will be positioned to compete with the recently revealed Tesla Model Y. If you recall, Ford posted a tweet in...

And, the all-new sub-$40,000 Fisker teaser arrives as planned. We told you about a week ago that Henrik Fisker teased an upcoming prototype. He said his plan was to further tease it on March 18, 2019. However, he was clear that it wouldn’t be any official launch or livestream situation, but...

The automaker may redeem itself yet. Volkswagen Group is serious about electric vehicles. It may not look that way if you judge by its battery-powered cars on the road today — in the U.S., it currently offers only the Volkswagen e-Golf. But, its various brands will be producing millions in just...

We get up close to this Scandinavian response to the Tesla Model 3. The Polestar 2 has just made its Geneva Motor Show debut. Last week, we got lots of details about the mid-size fastback from Volvo’s electric sub-brand, but there’s no substitute for having people crawling over a vehicle to help...

Nissan LEAF is the first EV in history hit 400,000 sales Nissan happily announced that the cumulative sales of the Nissan LEAF hit 400,000 since market introduction in December 2010. In terms of cumulative sales, LEAF is the best-selling model globally. The total mileage of LEAFs exceed 10...

There’s a lot to like about this battery pack design. The Polestar 2 battery pack layout is very unique. It’s kind of like a marriage between the Chevrolet Volt “T” pack (where GM put cells down the tunnel of the car) and the Bolt EV pack that is essentially a mono-slab pack design with a...

All-electric Polestar 2 will start around $45,000 and offer about 275 miles of range based on the EPA cycle. We often joke about Tesla killers or Tesla fighters. However, there’s not much truth to either as proven by the incredible success of the Tesla Model 3 as compared to any potential...

German carmakers Daimler and BMW are teaming up on a ride-hailing, parking and electric car charging business, the companies announced last week. The companies said they plan to invest more than 1 billion euros ($1.13 billion) to grow the venture, which will challenge companies like Uber...

Plug-in electric cars outsold hybrids almost 2:1 in California According to the California New Car Dealers Association’s latest report on the car market in California in 2018, electrification of the state’s fleet accelerated. In the past year, some 2 million new cars were registered in the state...

Rivian, which recently unveiled prototypes of an all-electric pickup and SUV, has secured a $700 million round of financing led by Amazon. “We’re inspired by Rivian’s vision for the future of electric transportation,” Amazon CEO Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke said in a release. “RJ has built...

Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo Electric Wagon Spied Winter Testing

We like big trucks and we cannot lie. Dimensions…hmm. Probably quite a bit more than Sir Mix-A-Lot says. Ain’t no 24 here. Unless we’re talking feet of cargo-hauling capability. Those small, consumer-grade electric pickup trucks need not apply to this discussion. We’ve got nothing...

Every year electric cars get better and better CNBC had the recent opportunity to speak with Tesla co-founder and former CEO Martin Eberhard. He spoke on topics like the future of electric car growth, Tesla and how much has changed in the EV field. Martin Eberhard noted that global plug-in...

Most consumers would consider an alternative propulsion vehicle – even at a higher price. According to a national survey conducted by market researcher InnovateMR, the majority of automotive consumers are interested in alternative propulsion options such as plug-in hybrids and battery...

If BEV charging really an issue? One often reads statements by ICE drivers that they will not buy a BEV until it can be charged as fast as ICE cars can be filled with gasoline; they often state a 5-minutes target fill time. I do not recall ever spending only 5 minutes at a gasoline station. I...

We report the best January ever for U.S. EV sales, but only a few models pushed the number up. Based on automakers’ sales reports and our estimates, we report a total of 17,040 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in the U.S. in January, compared to last year’s 12,009 and last month’s 49,900. The...

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NOT ALL ELECTRIFIED MODELS WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE FULL $7,500 CREDIT THIS YEAR. If you’re in the market for a new electric vehicle based largely on the one-time $7,500 federal tax credit enacted in 2010 to spur sales of battery-powered rides, you’ll find your choices narrowing this year. That’s...

Within 8 months, IONITY installed 50 stations The installations of IONITY fast charging infrastructure accelerated and the number of stations increased to 51 out of 400 planned in Europe. Interestingly, another 43 stations are at various stages of construction. The pace of installations is...

Fremont Police Department to Deploy Zero-emission Tesla Patrol Vehicle in Pilot Program from Fremont Police Department (CA) : Nixle The pilot team purchased a used 2014 TESLA Model S 85 in January 2018 for $61,478.50 Looks like a base model (solid roof) 85, which go for about $35K on the...

Falling EV battery prices resulted in longer range. Not lower purchase prices. When Elon Musk announced job cuts at Tesla last week, he gave a clear reason for the belt-tightening. “We face an extremely difficult challenge: making our cars, batteries, and solar products cost-competitive with...

Volkswagen will go the electric Tesla way. According to the latest news, the introduction of the upcoming Volkswagen I.D. in Europe will be preceded by the launch of a new order system requiring small deposits in a Tesla-like style. In such a way, Volkswagen will be able to get knowledge...

Bloomberg New Energy Finance Calls Clean Energy Transport A Resilient “Safe Haven” For Investors. Bloomberg’s research organization BloombergNEF foresees solid growth in electric vehicle sales for 2019. They state that 2.6 million EVs are expected to be sold globally for the year. If their...

If plug-in hybrids mean more electric miles, then why not? General Motors announced this week that it’s done with plug-in hybrids. This news comes after The General’s decision to kill the Chevy Volt, which for years the company said was far superior to any EV. So now it appears that three...

Electric car sales are set to rise dramatically in 2019 as rapid growth in the sector is expected to continue. According to electric vehicle website Driving Electric, drivers who are considering taking the plunge are advised to strike now before supply bottlenecks take hold. Research by...

A massive 88 percent said they would not return to internal combustion-powered cars. Almost nine in 10 electric vehicle drivers would never go back to driving a car powered by petrol or diesel, according to new research. A study by electric vehicle YouTube channel Fully Charged found...

Larry Dixon of J.D. Power says price increases “quite extraordinary.” For years, electric vehicles have had relatively low resale value for a variety of reasons. Used electric vehicles are typically priced with the $7500 federal tax credit baked in. The plug-in market is also rapidly...

Will the Volvo semi become a new leader in the future of electric, autonomous semi trucks? Volvo has everything it takes to succeed in the electric, autonomous semi truck market. While it may be years before Tesla brings its all-electric semi truck to market, we’re well aware of its...

Volvo Trucks is going to compete with Tesla and Daimler in semi trucks Volvo Trucks announced a new all-electric Volvo VNR Electric semi truck that will be unveiled and demonstrated in California in 2019. Production and sales is already scheduled for 2020. The Swedish group intends to...

The automaker wants “around 20” electric cars on the road by 2025. Volkswagen is the latest manufacturer to announce an “acceleration” to previously established restructuring plans. In this case, the automaker isn’t talking about layoffs, at least not yet. Instead, VW plans to drastically...

In 15 years electric cars will take half of the global market? According to the DNV GL forecast, the growth of electric car sales will accelerate and it will take the shape of an S-shaped curve of innovation. In result, 50% of all new cars sold globally to be electric by 2033, which is...

While Tesla Model 3 sales didn’t surpass that of September, Model S, X, and other automakers’ sales rise up to elevate November. Based on automakers’ sales reports and our estimates, we report a total of 44,148 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in the U.S. in November, compared to last...

Can it survive on internal combustion trucks alone? The term “Tesla-killer” is something we’ve seen in headlines a thousand times. Probably more. But what if the pundits have this all wrong? What if Tesla is actually the one that will be doing the killing. That’s the take of Richard...

It seems we’re just a few years away from silencing the chug-a-lug of diesel motors pumping smoke through semi truck exhaust stacks. Tesla has certainly attracted headlines with its all-electric truck dubbed Tesla Semi. What’s more, it has attracted orders. Companies like Anheuser-Busch...

With consumers preferring trucks and SUVs these days, EV startup Rivian is building its first products to appeal to those tastes. This week the company introduced an electric pickup called the R1T, as well as a SUV called the R1S to be built on the same platform. While neither are expected to...