E-Cars

It’s been a stellar year so far for electric car sales. Throughout Europe, new records keep coming, with emerging markets consolidating into double-digit share for plug-in vehicles. In the wake of September records, Italy – Europe’s fourth largest market – has now entered a new phase in the race to EV adoption. Time for a […]

Minimizing losses and increasing speed of inductive fast charging for electric vehicles were some of Volkswagen’s goals when teaming up with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This was done through the Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation Hub Knoxville and impressive progress has already been made, according to a recent report.

Battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles already produce lower overall emissions than the average gasoline small SUV, and have a pathway to further reducing emissions, according to a recent Department of Energy report. The report considered the well-to-wheels and cradle-to-grave emissions of all propulsion types. Well-to-wheels includes all emissions associated with a particular

A software update could soon add range to earlier-production Audi E-Tron electric SUVs, but it won’t be done over the air. Vehicles from model years 2019 and 2020—the first two model years of E-Tron production—can now get an update good for 12.4 miles of WLTP range, Audi said in a press release. Audi of America

Tesla is launching a new solar roof tile with greater efficiency and higher power capacity. It comes as Tesla is trying to make its solar products mainstream. Tesla has had ups and downs when it comes to the solar roof. The product has been widely recognized for its beautiful design. It undeniably has significant advantages

US President Joe Biden has spent weeks battling opposition to his sweeping Build Back Better spending bill from Just Say No Republicans, and even some self-promoting sellouts in his own party. Now he’s also getting blowback to proposed rebates on US- and union-built EVs from foreign ambassadors and several domestic automakers. Representatives from the EU and its

Tesla is launching a pilot program for non-Tesla electric vehicles to use its Supercharger network for the first time. The pilot program is based at 10 Supercharger locations in the Netherlands. Over the last few months, Tesla has indicated that it plans to open the Supercharger network, its extensive global network of fast-charging stations, to

Even though Mercedes-Benz AMG has just replaced its GT Roadster with a redesigned 2022 SL, the coupe version of the GT sports car will stick around and soon be redesigned itself. The information was confirmed by Mercedes-Benz design chief Gorden Wagener in an interview with Road & Track following last week’s reveal of the 2022

Audi will use the 2021 Auto Guangzhou in late November for a revival of historic German marque Horch as an ultra-luxury sub-brand to challenge Mercedes-Benz Maybach. The Horch name will be attached to a range-topping version of an updated A8. While we won’t see the Horch grade in the U.S., the rest of the updated

Just as the jointly developed Subaru BRZ and Toyota GR86 feature common styling inside and out, Subaru’s upcoming Solterra battery-electric crossover will match the Toyota model developed alongside it, the BZ4X. The BZ4X was first shown as a concept in April and finally revealed in production guise last week. The Solterra is confirmed for its