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Nissan has announced that it will transform its Canton, Mississippi facility into the center for battery-electric vehicle production in the United States. The assembly plant currently builds the Frontier and Titan pickup trucks and the Altima mid-size sedan. In total, Nissan will invest $500 million to preserve and upskill 2,000 jobs with the production of […]

Fisker has announced that it has opened reservations for its second vehicle, which will begin delivery starting in 2024. Dubbed an agile urban EV, the Fisker Pear will slot below the Ocean crossover and be aimed at urban dwellers. What does the acronym stand for you ask? It’s short for Personal Electric Automotive Revolution. The […]

The move toward electrification is in full steam at General Motors with nearly every brand showing off at least one battery-electric vehicle based on the Ultium suite. However, we haven’t heard a peep from Buick regarding electrification for markets outside of China…until now. The brand, today, provided us a quick glimpse of what appears to […]

The EPA has released the fuel economy figures on the 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe. In all-electric mode, the SUV can travel up to 26 miles on a single charge. When driven as a standard hybrid, the Grand Cherokee 4xe is rated at 23/24/23 mpg city/highway/combined. With a full tank and a fully charged battery, […]

Jaguar Land Rover has announced that it will form a partnership with NVIDIA to develop autonomous driving systems and AI-enabled services. From 2025, every new Jaguar and Land Rover vehicle will be built on the NVIDIA Drive software-defined platform. This will enable the two brands to deliver a broad range of active safety, automated driving […]

Audi has announced that its new manufacturing plant in Changchun, China will build vehicles on the upcoming PPE architecture codeveloped with Porsche. This facility will expand the brand’s product portfolio in China by offering new battery-electric vehicles. Audi co-founded a new company with its Chinese partner FAW called Audi-FAW NEV Company after getting approval from […]

Airbnb has announced that over 850,000 of its host now offer electric vehicle charging as part of its amenities. This follows an upgrade that added a search filter for hostings with battery-electric vehicle charging capabilities to support those driving plug-in hybrids and BEVs. Between June and Dec. 2021, the search numbers for hostings with electric […]

The second battery-electric vehicle wearing an AMG badge has arrived. Called the Mercedes-AMG EQE, the smaller of the two sedans focuses on agility and fun driving dynamics. That doesn’t mean this AMG won’t have prodigious power because this has a lot of it. In North America, we’re only getting the most potent version, the 2023 […]

Polestar has revealed that its next flagship, the four-door Polestar 5 grand tourer, will be built on a bespoke bonded aluminum architecture. Lightweight and rigid, bonded aluminum also offers plenty of advantages when it comes to performance and environmental impact. This technology has also proven to be highly difficult to integrate into mass production because […]

Alfa Romeo has jumped straight into electrification with the debut of the Tonale subcompact crossover. That plug-in hybrid variant marks the brand’s first electrified model and it’s just the beginning. In an interview with Automotive News Europe, Jean-Philippe Imparato, CEO of Alfa Romeo, revealed that the Italian marque’s first battery-electric vehicle is due in 2024. […]