U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration have been supportive of electric vehicles (EVs), and in a recent move, the White House has pledged to end major tax breaks for oil companies. In a press conference promoting his “Build Back Better” proposal on Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden promised to end tax breaks for fossil […]
From left: Environment and Climate Change Minister Gary Crossman; Natural Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland; Jon Brawn, treasurer of the New Brunswick Automobile Dealers’ Association; and Keith Cronkhite, president and CEO of NB Power. The province of New Brunswick in Canada announced on Thursday a new electric vehicle rebate program. Starting today, July […]
Thursday is Stellantis EV day 2021, and during the streamed event, the parent company of Dodge announced plans to move towards electrification. Dodge says it will debut what is calls the “world’s first full battery electric muscle car” on Thursday, in a video released by Stellantis. The electric vehicle (EV) is expected to launch in […]
Automotive publication Car and Driver has announced its 2021 Electric Vehicle of the Year winner, and that goes to Ford’s Mustang Mach-E. The Mustang Mach-E beat out the following EV finalists, which included Tesla’s Model 3, Model Y and Model S: TESLA MODEL 3 PERFORMANCE VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 POLESTAR 2 NISSAN LEAF PLUS TESLA MODEL Y […]
Last week, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Mayor Dean J. Trantalis announced that Elon Musk’s The Boring Company made a formal proposal to introduce underground loops to the city to help mitigate road traffic. Now, according to Trantalis, the city has officially accepted the proposal from The Boring Company, allowing them to build underground tunnels running from […]
Tesla’s Model S Plaid is now considered the quickest production car with its outrageously-fast 0 to 60 mph time, but one competitor which boasts a faster electric vehicle (EV) at a 1/4 mile has just merged with a major luxury sports car company. Croatian EV startup Rimac has officially merged with Bugatti to form Bugatti-Rimac, […]
Porsche has announced a recall of all 43,000 units of its Taycan electric vehicles (EVs) across the globe over a confirmed issue involving sudden, unexpected power loss to the entire vehicle — reports Autoblog. The recall covers all Taycan units produced and delivered by June 2021. According to Porsche, each of the recalled cars will […]
General Motors announced a multi-million dollar strategic investment in and commercial collaboration with Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) to source locally extracted, low-cost lithium in a press release on Friday. At its Hell’s Kitchen Lithium and Power development in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field, located in Imperial, California, CTR is working on a closed-loop process to […]
Automakers in China are releasing their sales numbers for Q2 this week, and new updates from Li Auto show that the company is reaching new all-time highs, even coming out of the global chip shortage. On Friday, Li Auto said that its June deliveries of the Li One hit a monthly high of 7,713 deliveries, […]
As the world moves towards renewable and zero-emission solutions, one Florida city is adding two electric police motorcycles to its fleet. Florida’s Largo Police Department added two new Zero electric motorcycles to its fleet, as the city considers wider transitions to renewable energy sources, according to Yahoo Finance. The city plans to build out an […]
Many analysts have increased their outlook on NIO recently, and while the Tesla-rivaling Chinese electric vehicle (EV) startup still has a long way to go if it hopes to catch up to Tesla, its recent quarterly sales report is telling. According to a press release from NIO on Thursday, the company delivered 8,083 vehicles in […]
After reports The Boring Company was in talks with Florida in January, the news has now been publicly confirmed by one state official on Wednesday. The City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida has been offered a proposal from the Boring Company to build a transit loop between downtown and the beach, according to Fort Lauderdale Mayor […]
Lucid Motors unveiled its minimal dashboard last month, and despite earlier reports that CEO Peter Rawlinson was unsure of hitting 20,000 cars produced by 2022, the company has already received half that many preorders. Lucid Motors has reached 10,000 reservations for the Lucid Air electric sedan, following its announcement that it will close on a […]
Louis Navellier, Chief Investment Officer at asset management firm Navellier, believes homegrown electric vehicle (EV) maker NIO is poised to replace Tesla as the market leader in the Chinese region — reports The Street. “Another electric vehicle company will eventually displace Tesla as the biggest manufacturer of EVs in China,” Navellier wrote in his bold […]
Honda announced on Monday details of its first electric SUV destined for the United States and Canada. The new Honda Prologue EV will launch in North American in 2024, and the SUV will be the first in a new lineup of battery electric vehicles from the Japanese automaker. Honda says it plans to have 100% […]
