After unveiling a third Alpha stage prototype for its electric three-wheeler (dubbed Luna), Aptera has now officially announced that the vehicle is out of Alpha and in Beta. This still means the vehicle is not completely finished, but it also means no major changes will be made – all those are made in Pre-Alpha and …
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African electric mobility company Opibus announced today that it has closed on a round of equity and grant fundraising totaling $7.5 million. According to the company, this the largest sum of money raised by an electric mobility company in all of Sub-Saharan Africa, eclipsing the previous by $4 million. Opibus now looks to use this …
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Volkswagen on Monday unveiled an updated Jetta . The updates are due for the 2022 model year and extend to our favorite variant, the Jetta GLI. The updates bring revised fascias including a more aggressive design for the range-topping GLI, along with new colors and wheel patterns, but the big news is the addition of …
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Chevrolet’s not messing around with its SEMA lineup this year. It created a beast. On Monday, Chevrolet announced its truck and SUV lineup that will be on display at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, and the headliner is a custom-built concept dubbed The Chevy Beast. Created with the goal of dominating in the desert …
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Ferrari on Thursday won a legal dispute with German tuner Mansory Design after a European court agreed that Mansory illegally copied the design of the Ferrari FXX K track car for one of its tuned vehicles, Reuters reported. The case centered around the Mansory 4XX Siracusa, a Ferrari 488 GTB with a body kit that, …
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Global passenger plug-in electric car sales doubled year-over-year in September to over 685,000 (up 98%), which is the new all-time monthly record (16% better than the previous one from June). Not only that. The market share, according to Jose Pontes (based on EV-Volumes data), has reached a new all-time record of 10.2% – the first double …
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The Hyundai Ioniq 5 was launched in South Korea and Europe about six months ago, initially available with two battery options – 58 kWh and 72.6 kWh (see European specs here). In the U.S., the car will be available with a single, bigger battery version – 77.4 kWh, but it will be launched at the …
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YouTube channel Wham Baam Dangercam recently posted a short video of a Porsche Taycan driving through deep floodwaters in China. This isn’t the only video we’ve seen of EVs dealing with floods in China, and others have also posted videos of driving in the deep waters in a Taycan in other parts of the world. …
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Toyota shows that EVs aren’t tedious, with some technology firsts in its upcoming bZ4X. The 2019 Audi E-Tron SUV is getting more range. Some Tesla models are being recalled. And yes, EVs emit less than other vehicle types over their lifetime. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. A steering yoke, a solar roof, …
Tesla has updated Model 3 and Model Y ranges with the 2022 model year and most of them got higher ranges – though it depends on the wheels. In an overnight update to its online configurator, Tesla changes the ranges of several of its most popular Model 3 and Model Y trims. The update seems …
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