Ford launched its electric F-150 Lightning earlier this year, and the vehicle has already earned its first award in the truck sector. Motortrend has named the Ford F-150 Lightning its 2023 Truck of the Year, calling it “the first electric pickup to appeal directly to the existing truck market.” Ford delivered its first F-150 Lightning […]

Electric vehicle (EV) charging remains a crucial barrier for the auto industry to overcome, and one major automaker has formed a new joint venture to deploy charging stations in Italy. On Tuesday, Volkswagen announced a new partnership with Enel X Way on a joint venture dubbed “Ewiva,” which is set to build as many as […]

Tesla has been ordered to upgrade one customer’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) hardware for free as Washington Judge Matthew A. Skau ruled that the automaker’s original claims amounted to “false advertising” (via electrek). The ruling came after plaintiff and Tesla owner Ian Jordan noted that the automaker said any hardware upgrades needed to run FSD would […]

Panasonic is shifting gears to start supplying hardware to automakers other than just Tesla, with a new company set to receive the manufacturer’s batteries. Tesla supplier Panasonic will now also supply rival automaker Lucid Group with electric vehicle (EV) batteries, according to a statement on Tuesday from the electronics manufacturer (via Reuters). “Partnerships with technology-leading […]

Each holiday season, Tesla rolls out a special software update that usually includes fun special features and significant upgrades. This year’s holiday update has officially been spotted by one Tesla owner in Canada. Tesla’s holiday update is rolling out in Canada as software version 2022.44.25, as seen by @James Locke on Tuesday in his Model […]

Tesla’s Model 3 was the best-selling luxury sedan produced in China for wholesale vehicle sales from January to November, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association in a graphic shared by @Mathias Føns on Tuesday. During the 11-month period in China, Tesla sold 235,700 Model 3 units built at Gigafactory Shanghai, beating out […]

The Kilowatts shared a new video on Tuesday detailing an issue with Tesla’s electric vehicles (EVs) affecting mobile key access, which allows users to control who else has access to their car. As is, the bug would require the main owner of the Tesla to remember to revoke access to drivers who are done using […]

In late November we told you about SpaceX and its Starlink demo trailer on the streets of Qatar, at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. At the time, there wasn’t any sort of official announcement on SpaceX and Starlink being at the World Cup, but now we know more about the partnership. On Monday morning SpaceX […]

NIO announced today it has manufactured its 300,000th vehicle from its Second Advanced Manufacturing Base at NeoPark in Hefei, Anhui province, China, with the milestone taking place on Monday, December 12, 2022. The Chinese EV automaker manufactured its first vehicle in May 2018 and for 2022, it started delivering cars based on its second-gen platform known as […]

Toyota is planning to unveil a new, three-year electric vehicle (EV) plan which includes changes in its main supplier relationships, according to two people familiar with the matter in a report from Reuters. The Japanese automaker will share updated EV plans through 2026. It will highlight important adjustments to some of its key suppliers, according […]

Tesla is planning to open its largest Supercharger station in Australia next month, planned to include 12 V3 charging stalls in Box Hill outside of Melbourne (via The Driven). The Supercharger station is expected to become operational just after New Year’s, and construction on the site has already begun, according to sources who spoke with […]

Starlink is continuing to expand its service reach, and new information seems to show that customers in Nigeria are now set to receive the first of the user terminals for SpaceX’s satellite internet service ahead of a full-scale launch in the country. SpaceX has begun shipping some Starlink pre-orders to customers in Nigeria, as part […]

A new review of Tesla’s Model X Plaid surfaced on Sunday in a video from the YouTube channel Autogefühl. The in-depth review focuses on the luxury electric SUV’s exterior and interior, as well as how it feels when driving, looking at nearly every aspect of the vehicle from the user interface and cabin noise cancellation […]

Tesla has been approved by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to begin a “statewide market design pilot” for its Virtual Power Plant (VPP) program, according to statements made by an official on LinkedIn on Sunday (via electrek). Arushi Sharma Frank, U.S. energy markets policy lead for Tesla, said that the pilot could now […]

Tesla appears to have brought out the big guns as it rushes to make its final deliveries in the last few weeks of the year. The automaker maker was recently spotted hauling a ridiculous number of electric vehicles (EVs) across Europe on a train. Twitter user @Luc Waterlot spotted a train loaded full of Model […]