Tesla is offering free Supercharging during off-peak hours at select locations during the 4th of July weekend to help with traffic during busy travel days. As we previously reported, Tesla has been having a hard time keeping up its charging infrastructure growth with its fleet growth over the last few years. Its deliveries are growing …
Stellantis last week renewed its trademark protection for the name Tomahawk, perhaps signalling that a new performance vehicle is in the works. As first noted by CarBuzz, the filing for trademark protection was made with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on June 23 for automotive applications. There hasn’t been a production model called …
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Volvo on Friday announced plans to construct a vehicle plant in Kosice, Slovakia. The plant will be Volvo’s third vehicle plant in Europe, joining the automaker’s existing plants in Belgium and Sweden. This represents the first time in 60 years that Volvo has announced a new plant in Europe. The plant, which will exclusively build …
Prototypes for Chevrolet’s Silverado EV started hitting public roads this week and Chevy got ahead of the spy shot photographers by releasing a pair of its own photos displaying one of the testers for the electric full-size pickup truck. The photos show the Silverado EV testing at General Motors’ test center in Milford, Michigan, and …
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A Tesla Model S Plaid reached 216 mph at a Canadian airfield earlier this week. The Plaid was modified by Ingenext, an EV tuning company based in Trois-Rivières, Canada. Ingenext removed the Plaid’s software limiter to see its true top speed potential and they were not let down. Although Tesla‘s website claims the Model S Plaid …
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You may be familiar with Rivian as the innovative California-based manufacturer of electric trucks. The brand is often associated with a rugged, outdoorsy, but sustainable character, so the notion of Rivian coming up with an electric motorcycle certainly isn’t far-fetched. This especially rings true now that its top brass has been reinforced by the former …
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More than half of British drivers say the reduced fuel costs of an electric vehicle (EV) would tempt them to make the switch from petrol or diesel power. That’s according to a new survey of more than 13,000 motorists by the AA, which also found many drivers were motivated by a desire to save the …
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The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric received a Top Safety Pick+ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)—the organization’s highest safety award. To get on the Top Safety Pick+ honor roll, the Ioniq 5 received top “Good” scores in all IIHS crash tests, as well as the top “Superior” rating for front-crash prevention …
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Tesla has filed with the city of Austin to expand Gigafactory Texas with a giant new 500,000-square-foot building at the site. Now Gigafactory Texas is already giant. It’s already one of the biggest buildings on Earth. The current building is equivalent to about 15 city blocks or three Pentagons as CEO Elon Musk said earlier …
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General Motors is doing all it can to put the Bolt EV/EUV battery fire recall behind it. After replacing the batteries free of charge for owners of over 141,000 affected vehicles, GM lowered prices by about $6,000 for the 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV, which now start at $26,595 and $28,195, respectively (including $995 …
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