Amidst increasing competition in the world’s largest auto market, Chinese electric vehicle (EV) startup NIO has continued to increase its sales in the region, recently surpassing another automaker as the most valuable brand. NIO replaced BYD as the most valuable automaker in China, as its brand value rose a whopping 145 percent from last year, […]
Following up on General Motors’ (GM) plans to become all-electric by 2035, the company has shared plans to build a network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations GM announced plans on Tuesday to build 40,000 EV charging stations across the U.S. and Canada, according to Reuters. The project will be funded as a piece of […]
Jaguar plans to go all-electric by 2025, and with electric vehicle (EV) Land Rover variants coming as soon as 2024, and in order to do so, the company will need to significantly drop its supply chain emissions – though a new report shows that won’t happen yet this year. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has agreed […]
Following glowing first reviews for the Lucid Air Dream Edition, the company is officially set to deliver the first units of the vehicle to its customers later this month. The Lucid Air Dream Edition will reportedly deliver its first units to customers later this month at an October 30 delivery event, held at Lucid’s California […]
After Rivian’s all-electric R1T truck started rolling off the production line last month, the first deliveries are now going out to the startup’s employees and earliest customers. Travis Munson (@travislmunson), a facilities strategist at Rivian and former Tesla employee, took delivery of his Glacier White R1T on Friday, and proceeded to share images of the […]
In a recently published YouTube video, tech enthusiast Marques Keith Brownlee (aka MKBHD) gets hands-on with the recently launched Rivian R1T all-electric pickup truck, drives it around for a day, shares his experience, and reviews Rivian’s first electric vehicle (EV) to make it off the production line. Right off the bat, Marques introduces the R1T […]
The first leg of the Boring Company’s Las Vegas Loop is already operating, though the company has plans to expand the underground tunnel system throughout much of the city. @Clark County, Nevada officially approved the Boring Company’s Las Vegas Loop on Wednesday with a unanimous vote, with the upcoming route set to include the entire, […]
Statistics Canada has released data for vehicle registrations in Canada for Q2 2021. Looking at new motor vehicle registrations for zero-emission vehicles (ZEV; which includes battery, plug-in hybrid-electric and hybrid electric vehicles), there were 24,006 for the second quarter, taking 4.9% of total vehicle registrations. Canada says 49.1% of new ZEVs were registered in Quebec […]
Earlier this year, Huawei and Baidu poured $19 billion USD into electric vehicles (EVs) and self-driving technology, and now Huawei is set to partner with another company, known for being a worldwide automaker. Huawei and Volkswagen will reportedly start a new joint venture together, in order to begin focusing on self-driving technology, according to people […]
Taiwan-based Hon Hai Technology group, known as Foxconn, is best known for manufacturing Apple products such as the iPhone, but now has finally unveiled its next move into the world of electric vehicles. At the company’s Hon Hai Technology Day, it detailed three unique electric vehicles (EVs), with a naming scheme that sounds out of […]
As Toyota unveils more plans for zero-emission cars in years to come, including the Toyota bZ4X unveiled earlier this year, the company is looking towards how it will bolster the production of zero-emission car batteries over the next decade. Toyota announced plans on Monday to invest $3.4 billion USD into localizing automotive battery production in […]
Automotive publication Road & Track recently published its glowing review of the Lucid Air, highlighting “the best driving range and fastest charging system of any EV on the market”. The publication got hands-on with the Lucid Air Dream Edition, the first electric vehicle ever to receive an EPA range rating of 520 miles. “The Lucid […]
At a Volkswagen managers gathering in Alpbach, Austria, on Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk addressed 200 of the German carmaker’s executives via video conference. During the event, Musk touched upon the secret sauce to his leadership of Tesla, his thoughts on VW as a competitor, and more, reports Reuters. Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess later confirmed […]
Vancouver, B.C., Lucid Studio Lucid Group announced on Friday morning the confirmation of Canadian pricing for its Lucid Air electric sedan, starting from $105,000 CAD. It also marks the first time Lucid Group has confirmed pricing outside of the U.S. market, plus the upcoming opening of its first Studio outside the U.S. as well, coming […]
After giving up on approaching an electric vehicle (EV) strategy of its own, Honda is seeking partners for EV manufacturing, and a new announcement shows the company has a more detailed electrification plan, set to begin as soon as 2022. On Wednesday at a virtual conference, Honda announced a new electrification strategy, including a five-step […]
