EV
Why GM CEO Mary Barra Is Our 2024 Person Of The Year
The electric vehicle world is a graveyard of promises. A year ago, it seemed like General Motors might need to pick out a few burial plots of its own there. The company’s EV battery production plan was way off schedule. Key…
Lightship’s Self-Propelled Electric RV Trailer Is Going Into Production, And It Ain’t Cheap
San Francisco-based Lightship is putting its revolutionary self-propelled electric RV trailer into production. The first 50 units are called the AE.1 Cosmos Edition. The trailer has a built-in battery and powertrain that helps reduce the strain on the tow vehicle.…
Battery Prices Down So Sharply That EVs Could Reach Gas Car Prices By 2026
“I don’t like electronic cars,” said a middle-aged woman sitting next to me on a recent flight out of New York. “They’re more expensive and don’t go too far,” she added before casually revealing that both her sons in Texas…
The Toyota bZ3X EV SUV Starts Under $14,000–But You Can’t Have One
Toyota has a new electric crossover in its lineup. Called the bZ3X, it's roughly the same size as a Rav4. There's one problem: it's not for sale in the United States. Toyota has just one all-electric car on sale in…
Costco Is Adding More EV Fast Chargers At Its Stores
American wholesale giant Costco is ramping up efforts in the EV charging space. It partnered with Electrify America to install 350 kW stalls in three states. Costco, America’s largest wholesaler and the third-largest retailer in the world, is ramping up…
Cruise Is Dead After GM Pulls Funding
General Motors will no longer fund Cruise. GM says launching and maintaining a Robotaxi network is not something that it is interested in doing. The automaker intends to roll Cruise's commercial tech into its vision for "Personal Autonomy." After a…
An EV War With China
Much has already been said about the relaunch of the Jaguar brand, most of it in the form of the vacuously cruel homophobic pablum that occupies much of the internet’s twiddling. A sliver of it has contained intelligent analysis. But…