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Public charging needs to improve for EV adoption to really go mainstream. Tesla understood this when it decided to deploy its own proprietary Supercharger network. While there are other players in EV fast charging, work needs to be done. Today, General Motors announced that it’s partnering with Pilot Company, the folks who own Pilot and […]

While we’ve already seen a few computer generated images of the “Electrified Streamliner” that is the Hyundai Ioniq 6, we haven’t received much information from Hyundai about the car. We recently attended a briefing on the vehicle, and have a bunch more information that you’re going to want to know about the second vehicle in […]

Triumph Motorcycles and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has announced the testing results for its TE-1 electric motorcycle project. The prototype exceeded project objectives, giving a preview of the potential for the future of all-electric motorcycles. According to WAE, the Triumph TE-1 delivered a category-leading 100-mile range, based on live testing and official projections. Peak power […]

Geely Holding Group, which owns Volvo, Polestar, and Lotus to name a few, has launched a new brand: Radar Auto. It’s being billed as “China’s first pure electric outdoors lifestyle vehicle brand” and its first model—excuse me—”first electric adventure vehicle” is a pickup truck called the RD6. According to Geely, although Radar Auto is starting […]

Say hello to the world’s first all-electric hypercar, the Rimac Nevera. The first production unit has rolled off the assembly line following five years of development and testing. According to Rimac, it has gone through three generations of powertrain technology, 18 different prototypes, 45 physical crash tests, and over 1.6-million collective hours of research and […]

May Mobility, the company collaborating with Toyota on its autonomous vehicle platform, just closed a $111 million round of Series C Funding. The Ann Arbor company is working with Toyota on its Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicle platform, which is a fully autonomous Sienna sheparding in the idea of Mobility as a Service, and also being development […]

The Zeekr 001 is claiming the rights to a world’s first, as the Chinese electric sedan is the first production car in the world equipped with two 7nm autonomous driving chips. Less than one year after the Zeekr 001 began deliveries, the Chinese automaker has announced a slew of upgrades to its luxury sedan for […]

One of the keys to Tesla’s success in North America is the proliferation and availability of the Supercharger network. Without it, it’s unlikely Tesla would be a success. But one criticism of the network is that it’s only available to Tesla automobiles. While that makes sense — Tesla spent the money after all — there […]

We know that the currently Lamborghini Aventador will be the last Lamborghini powered exclusively by a V12 engine. But the “exclusively by” is the key word there, because the replacement will likely also be a V12, with the help of a plug-in hybrid system. For exotic cars, going plug-in is a must. As cities ban […]

While we were sitting in the Cadillac Lyriq presentation at a resort in Park City, Utah, the product’s chief engineer was walking through the charging accessories that come with the car, and what are available, and it’s a lot. While Tesla is making the portable charging cable an optional extra, General Motors is shipping the […]