The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to any industry – the automotive market included. CTVNews reports a significant downtrend in electric vehicle sales in Canada, with its instigators being the global lull caused by the pandemic and, more importantly, stunted supply of EVs in the region. Want to buy an electric vehicle? In some […]
Update: Nikola founder Trevor Milton has announced he has resigned, sharing a note on Twitter at 11:21pm on late Sunday evening: https://twitter.com/nikolatrevor/status/1307927801966866438 Some big news on Sunday night, if indeed true. According to Freight Waves, the site reports Nikola founder Trevor Milton has apparently resigned: Sources close to the embattled fuel cell truck manufacturer are […]
Drone footage recently published on YouTube by Oneshot Creative gives us a visual account of the construction progress made on Nikola Corporation’s $600 million production facility in Coolidge, Arizona. Nikola Corp. broke ground on this project on July 23, 2020. Being built on a 430-acre chunk of land located off U.S Highway 87 on East Houser […]
After success in the electric car charging business in Norway and other parts of northern Europe, Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is now looking to make a move on the EV charging market in North America, reports BNN Bloomberg. Headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Couche-Tard owns Circle K–a global chain of convenience stores. According to CEO Brian […]
The Canadian government has announced a new $117,755 CAD ($89,360 USD) investment to launch 25 new electric vehicle chargers to Whistler, British Columbia, has come to fruition. The winter sport destination and former site of the 2010 Winter Olympics will now has EV chargers installed at public locations such as: main parking access to Whistler […]
A brand new electric vehicle (EV) racetrack record has just been set. In a recent video released by YouTube EV channel The Kilowatts and shared on Twitter by Unplugged Performance, a Lucid Air is shown beating the Tesla-held record at the Laguna Seca racetrack. The previous record on the Laguna Seca track was earned by […]
There has been no shortage of new electric vehicle (EV) announcements lately, especially in the pickup department. The newest announcement will likely have American fans excited, as one classic company plans to remake an EV version of a classic truck. On Thursday, Ford announced a new all-electric model of the Ford F-150, according to Motor […]
New fuel cell technology has just hit the public eye, and most are impressed with what they see. Ballard Power Systems has just announced a new, high-performance, zero-emission fuel cell stack, and Audi has purchased the technology to be used in its upcoming electric vehicles (EVs). The FCgen-HPS is expected to increase power output and […]
With many automakers simply trying to catch up to the rest of the electric vehicle (EV) market, we’ll start to see a lot of changes within the auto industry over the next decade. According to Reuters, General Motors (GM) is now planning to produce a completely interchangeable line of EV drive systems and motors, called […]
As we all probably recognize, electric vehicles (EVs) are nothing without their chargers. And more and more EV owners are preferring Kilowatt-Hour charging rates over the standard per-minute rates readily available. In a recent upgrade, EV charging station company Electrify America announced it’s making Kilowatt-Hour pricing available for its EV chargers in 23 states and […]
As the world inches towards the goal of sustainable transportation, it feels like new electric vehicles (EVs) are announced fairly frequently. Or maybe that’s just this particular September. In either case, Honda has just shared a teaser of a concept car to be sold in China, as reported by Yahoo Finance. Like the company’s first […]
In the latest on Nikola Motor Company (NKLA) being called a fraud by Hindenburg Research, Hindenburg has offered its rebuttal to Nikola’s response, and it’s pretty close to what you might expect. On Tuesday, Hindenburg followed up to both its initial claims that Nikola was a fraud of a company, and to Nikola’s response intending […]
Despite Nikola Corp’s attempts to defend itself today, in response to a short-seller’s allegations the company deceived investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is now probing the electric vehicle maker, according to unnamed sources speaking to Bloomberg. Hindenburg Research called out Nikola as an “intricate fraud” on last week, citing the company had overstated […]
Last week, Hindenburg Research made scathing remarks about Nikola, calling them a fraud of a company. This week, Nikola has released its rebuttal. On Monday, Nikola Motors shared a press release that claims to set the record straight on Hindenburg’s “false and misleading short seller report.” In it, the company argues that its use of […]
A scathing report has just been released, and it has the electric vehicle (EV) world in flames today. In a report Thursday, short-seller Hindenburg Research called Nikola a “fraud”, according to Auto Blog. The short-seller shared that it believes Nikola has been making up lies about its vehicles in order to gain steam in the […]
