Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker NIO on Saturday unveiled the sleek-looking ET5, a mid-sized smart electric sedan to rival the Tesla Model 3. According to CnEVPost, NIO is using a new integrated die-casting process for the rear body of the ET5. “We are using an integrated die-casting process for the rear subframe of the ET5,” NIO […]

Hyundai Motor Co. CEO Jaehoon Chang projects that the company’s electric vehicle (EV) sales across the Hyundai and Genesis brands will increase 57% to 220,000 units in 2022, and up to a whopping 1.7 million units across the Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis brands in 2026 — reports Automotive News. The latest numbers have South Korea’s […]

Starlink, SpaceX’s high-speed satellite broadband service, made it out of beta last month and continues to both bring more users aboard and launch more satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO). As more users are added to the network, median download and upload speeds are bound to see a slight reduction — and that is exactly what […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Sunday the company will hold a grand opening party at Giga Texas, in early 2022. “Tesla will hold a Giga Texas grand opening party with factory tours for the community in early 2022,” said Musk. Tesla will hold a Giga Texas grand opening party with factory tours for the […]

Canada announced on Monday further investment into electric vehicle (EV) chargers, as the federal government will invest $110,000 CAD ($84,960 USD) to bring 22 Level-2 chargers to St. Lawrence College in Ontario, at campuses in Cornwall, Brockville and Kingston. Funding will again come from the Natural Resources Canada’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program. St. Lawrence College will add over $160,000 CAD to […]

General Motors Co. on Monday announced that it would be extending its production break for the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle (EV) until February 2022 — reports Automotive News. Chevrolet Bolt EV production delayed through February https://t.co/dnXpbOxgc1 pic.twitter.com/JYKFvQ4jqB — Automotive News (@Automotive_News) December 20, 2021 Shortly after recalling every single Chevy Bolt ever made (some 140,000 […]

Sandy Munro’s Tesla Model S Plaid road trip continues, and the most recent video shares a recap of the visit to the meet and greet in Maryland. Munro said there was a “phenomenal turnout” and said there was a huge crowd, calling it a “monumental operation”, with the team saying this was the biggest turnout […]

Brandenburg Minister-President Dietmar Woidke said during a press conference on Monday that Tesla’s Berlin-Brandenburg Gigafactory will “probably” receive final approval for operations at the beginning of the new year, reports Berlin.de (via @SawyerMerritt). “The approval will come at some point,” said Woidke in a final press conference before the local government goes on break for […]

Image via Sharon B.; Times of Israel Israel has more than doubled the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on its roads, from 4,500 in 2020 to over 9,000 registered this year — reports The Times of Israel. However, owners of battery-electric cars in the country are facing a rather unique problem: there’s nowhere to charge their […]

Rivian announced on Monday more details about its R1S electric SUV, announcing it had its first deliveries last week—but to the company’s CEO and CFO, not customers. “We made our first R1S deliveries last week from our factory in Normal, IL to RJ and our CFO Claire,” said Rivian. “We’re working towards ramping production over […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Sunday evening he will be paying over $11 billion in taxes this year. For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2021 The world’s richest person previously shot back at Senator Elizabeth Warren’s criticism of “freeloading off everyone […]

Western Los Angeles, California, will soon be getting a massive new Supercharger at the recently refurbished Trident Center located at 11355 W Olympic Blvd (via @MarcoRPTesla). The new installation is going to host 16 V3 Superchargers capable of delivering up to 250 kW of power output per car, along with 44 level 2 Tesla High […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2021.44.5.5 software update, according to @Teslascope. We noticed a new Tesla software update 2021.44.5.5 on a Model Y AWD LR (2021) in California, United States. View the rollout of this update here: https://t.co/DnR0T3XOfs — Teslascope (@teslascope) December 19, 2021 So far, Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in the […]

On Saturday, NIO unveiled the sleek-looking ET5, a mid-sized smart electric sedan, at its NIO Day 2021 event in Suzhou, China (via CnEVPost), that looks to take on Tesla’s Model 3. The ET5 is meant to be the entry-level younger sibling to the NIO ET7, the company’s first (and flagship) electric sedan that was unveiled […]

Driverless robotaxis are hitting more and more roads each year and the eCommerce industry is hard at work trying to automate deliveries, but according to ABC7, Brandon Tsai and 23 other former SpaceX employees departed from the $100 billion USD space exploration and transportation company to bring robotics and automation to an entirely different industry […]