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Elon Musk Makes Fun Of Lucid’s Recent Production Cut Announcement
Lucid recently announced that it was cutting its production target for 2022 again, after it had previously been reduced from 20,000 to 12,000 - 14,000 units. Now the fledgling manufacturer has said that it only expects to manufacture between 6,000 and 7,000 Airs this year, prompting a strong ironic reaction [...]
Jaguar I-Pace Catches Fire While Charging In Florida
Even though the Jaguar I-Pace isn’t regarded as one of those EVs that can spontaneously catch fire, well, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, and when it does there's a strong chance its battery cells may be to blame. The most recent is a fire that destroyed a 2019 I-Pace [...]
Tesla Has Its Own Lane At Texas-Mexico Border
Tesla managed to convince the Mexican state Nuevo Leon to create special lane that allows its suppliers from the country to more easily cross to and from the United States. The state of Nuevo Leon borders Texas where Tesla has moved its headquarters and is now relying on several suppliers [...]
Elon Musk Calls Tesla’s Prices “Embarrassing”
The automotive market, much like many other markets right now, has been dealing with chaos since not long after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the pandemic is arguably to blame for most of the issues still today, the specific concerns are surrounding supply chain constraints and a lack [...]
First Lamborghini EV Will Be A Crossover In 2028
Even though Lamborghini, like all supercar and sports car manufacturers, will try to hold on to the internal combustion engine for as long as possible, it too will be forced to eventually only sell electric vehicles. The first of these has now been reportedly confirmed for the year 2028 and, [...]
Hyundai gets $1.8B in aid to build electric cars in Georgia
The state of Georgia and local governments are giving $1.8 billion in tax breaks and other incentives to Hyundai Motor Group in exchange for the automaker building its first U.S. plant dedicated to electric vehicles near Savannah, according to the signed agreement disclosed Friday. The deal calls for Hyundai to [...]
Hyundai Confirms Small, Affordable Electric Car Coming For Europe
Hyundai has official plans to bring an affordable, entry-level electric vehicle to market in Europe, though it's not going to happen right away. The brand recently launched its popular Ioniq 5 crossover and has plans to follow it with multiple fully electric vehicles going forward. Hyundai and Kia have both [...]
Volkswagen ID. Electric Car Sales Hit New Record
Volkswagen Group China reports a significant decrease in total vehicle deliveries in China during the first half of 2022. The volume in Mainland China and Hong Kong amounted to 1.47 million vehicles (down 20.5% year-over-year). That includes 1,081,700 Volkswagen and its Jetta sub-brand (down 18.8% year-over-year). According to the company, [...]
Mini Cooper SE Convertible Concept Is a Blue-Skies EV
Mini's current EV is the Cooper SE Electric, which is based on the two-door Mini Cooper hardtop. The convertible prototype, which was hand-built in Munich, mostly migrates that electric powertrain to the Cooper convertible body and has the same powered fabric top that raises or lowers in about 20 seconds. [...]
The 2022 Kia EV6’s touch bar panel is smart
The 2022 Kia EV6’s climate and radio control panel is a weird one. It’s mostly made up of touch controls, but there are also two knobs. Countering usual logic, those two knobs don’t always control the same thing at the same time. Yeah, that’s where things get weird. This is a situation [...]
New Tesla China Program: Trade In Your Gas Car For An EV
While it often seems Tesla is trying to limit the demand for its vehicles by raising prices, that's not necessarily the case, and it may depend on the market, the timing, and a variety of other factors. As Tesla works to ramp up its production in China after the previous [...]
New Electric Renault Megane E-Tech Priced At $ 43,600
Renault’s new Megane E-Tech electric SUV is now available to order with prices starting at just under £36,000. The first customer examples of the family car, which is a rival to the Peugeot e-2008 and Citroen e-C4 and has a range of up to 280 miles on a single charge, [...]
Italy’s EV Sales Recover In May
Italy’s EV market is not yet out of the woods, but things are starting to look up again. As European countries continue their long run to electrification, the continent’s fourth-largest auto market struggles to regain the pace it lost a few months ago. The latest Unrae stats for the month [...]
To succeed in the mass market, EV makers must focus on cost, not speed
As the global EV industry ramps up and crosses into the mass market, automakers must switch their focus from speed to cost, according to the AlixPartners 2022 Global Automotive Outlook released Wednesday. The world is continuing to electrify, with sales of battery-electric vehicles set to make up half the global [...]
Tesla hikes its car prices by thousands of dollars
Electric car maker Tesla is hiking the prices of its vehicles in the U.S. amid rising raw materials and logistics costs. The price of the startup's Model Y long-range car is listed for $65,990 on Tesla's website, up from $62,990, Reuters first reported. Tesla also raised the price of its [...]
Lancia’s Flagship Electric SUV Imagined In Exclusive Renderings
After years of silence and very limited activity, Lancia will finally get a new lease of life with a new 10-year strategic plan announced last month. The purists may not be happy to hear the brand will become fully electric in 2028, but everyone is probably excited to hear three [...]
Polestar Begins Delivering EVs To Hertz
Polestar announced that it has begun delivering new Polestar 2 electric cars to Hertz, which already deploys Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y models. Hertz intends to deploy a total of 65,000 Polestar vehicles over a period of five years (13,000 per year on average), which is described as [...]
Volvo Plug-In Car Sales Increased 22% In May 2022
Volvo reports a significant decrease in its car sales in the US in May - by 29.1% year-over-year to 9,372. It deepens the year-to-date fall to 18.1% (42,151). The Swedish brand is highly affected by supply constraints, which impacts also Volvo plug-in car sales. Anders Gustafsson, Senior Vice President, Volvo [...]