Transportation
Hyundai today released additional details about the 2024 Kona Electric, including preliminary range estimates, specifications, and US availability. The current generation is among the few affordable electric vehicles in the US starting at under $35,000. The next generation is imminent and seems like a significant upgrade, at least on paper. The Korean carmaker had shared…
Tesla and its suppliers will reportedly invest $15 billion over the next two years in the Gigafactory Mexico facility, said Nuevo Leon state governor Samuel Garcia. The amount is triple what Mexican officials previously announced after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in March that his company would open a gigafactory in Mexico’s northern state of…
Electric bicycle riders in the US will be used to e-bikes equipped with throttles. Over in Europe and Asia, e-bike regulations prohibit most e-bikes from having a throttle, and usually limit power to no more than 250 watts. Nevertheless, despite growing regulations in multiple states, electric bike regulations in the US remain much more lax…
The Tesla Model S Plaid’s Ludicrous mode might not be ludicrous enough for applied sciences students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University. The students have broken the acceleration world record for electric vehicles in a single-seater open-cockpit car called “mythen”, and the Guinness World Record appears to have recognized the same. Part of a group…
This week, the new Tesla Model 3 (also known as the Highland upgrade) was officially listed in a catalog of upcoming models in China, which was shared by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). This is the final step before a new car model is officially launched in China. The public can check…
Nearly ten months after Tesla handed over the first Semi to PepsiCo in December 2022, performance results from its first independent real-world test have finally emerged. Several companies are participating in the North American Council for Freight Efficiency’s (NACFE) Run On Less program, with the goal of testing the real-world performance of electric commercial vehicles,…
Tesla first revealed plans to develop a fully autonomous robotaxi in 2016, but while the project was mentioned several times since, the EV maker never teased its self-driving vehicle. Fortunately, we now get an idea of how the Tesla robotaxi looks like, or at least the concept version of it, from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk…
In July, global sales of plug-in electric cars exceeded one million units for the third consecutive time, suggesting that it might never go down to six digits again. According to EV-Volumes data, shared by Jose Pontes, 1,104,592 new passenger plug-in electric cars were registered globally in July (41 percent more than a year ago). That’s…
US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was put in an awkward position recently after her staff blocked a public EV charger with a gasoline car to reserve it for the government official’s convoy of EVs. Earlier this summer, Granholm embarked on a four-day EV road trip between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Memphis, Tennessee, to promote the…
There has been a lot of talk about the Tesla Cybertruck’s frunk so far, and that’s understandable since prospective owners are curious about the electric pickup truck’s practicality. So far, discussions on online forums and social media centered on the size of the frunk, with some spy photos suggesting a rather underwhelming loading capacity. New…
