Here’s What’s Next For Electric Cars
Tesla’s stock jumped by 5 percent on Monday on news that the assembly lines of the Model 3 were ratcheting up production, despite a several-day outage at the end of Continue Reading
Renault-Nissan aims for next generation battery car in 2025
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance is working to produce an electric car that uses solid-state batteries as early as 2025, in a move that puts it amid the frontrunners in the global Continue Reading
Auto Industry’s Cure for Electric Car Blues: Be More Like Tesla
It took six years for Ford Motor Co. F 1.13% to sell 8,700 electric Focus small cars. It takes just three days to sell as many gasoline-powered F-Series pickup trucks. Continue Reading
Musk Calls On Trump To Up Car Tariffs To Level Playing Field
Tesla’s chief executive Elon Musk took to Twitter on Thursday to complain to U.S. President Donald Trump about the unfair trade rules on U.S. car sales in China, which make Continue Reading
Tesla Semis Go On First Trip
Tesla’s Semi, the electric truck that the company unveiled a few months ago, has been sent on its first cargo trip, transporting battery packs from the gigafactory in Nevada to Continue Reading
GM CEO Pushes for Renewed Tax Breaks on Electric Vehicles
General Motors Co. Chief Executive Mary Barra is pressing Washington for an expansion of electric-vehicle tax credits, a plea that would help the company and rivals like Tesla Inc. sell Continue Reading
Diesel collapse gives automakers carbon headache
The accelerating demise of diesel, long used by carmakers to boost fuel-efficiency, is undermining their plans to meet looming European Union CO2 goals, and avoid big annual fines. The I.D. Continue Reading
Toyota phasing out diesel in passenger cars in Europe, keeping diesel for commercial vehicles
Buoyed by strong European customer demand for hybrid versions on its core models, Toyota will phase out diesel engines from all its passenger cars in 2018. In 2017, hybrids represented Continue Reading
How Feasible Are Electric Trucks?
There is no denying that EVs are here to stay, or that as the techonlogy improves so does their range of movement. It is indeed this range, or lack thereof Continue Reading
RoboTaxis Won’t Be Taking Over Any Time Soon
The Center for Automotive Research (CAR), a leading automotive research firm, just released a new study that casts doubt over autonomous and electric vehicles taking a huge share of traditional Continue Reading