Electric Car

While it may sound a little counterintuitive, a few tiny controlled explosions can actually be a good thing if you accidentally crash your electric car. New technology from Bosch, though, could possibly make our EVs far safer in the event of a crash with a fe…

In the world of manufacturing electric cars, thinking outside the box is mandatory. Electric-powered options normally supplied by an onboard power source need to be redesigned — after all, the more power you can devote to the drive system the further the rang…

The Volkswagen Group is putting aside auto industry competitiveness to help get more electric cars on the road. The company is in talks to share technology from its Audi and Porsche electric cars with other automakers, Automotive News reports. VW is shopping…

Porsche and Audi are co-developing an architecture called Premium Platform Electric (PPE) that will underpin a wide range of models during the 2020s. That range could include models from other automakers, as automakers outside of the Volkswagen Group have alr…

Tesla's stock price has fallen by more than 25% since the beginning of this year, as of Friday morning. According to Mark Tepper, CEO of the wealth-management firm Strategic Wealth Partners, there's "absolutely no reason" to own the electric-car maker's share…

Relax, this thing makes good explosions. Bosch Like it or not, electric cars are the future. Individually, they produce no emissions, have dramatically fewer moving parts than internal-combustion-powered vehicles, making them more reliable and easier to rep…

Volvos first fully-electric car, the XC40, has been setting the rumor mill alight this year, with most of its details shrouded in speculation. But now we have some of the emerging info, and I am very pleased to announce that, yes, the electric XC40 will have …

Heres a math problem for you: If a train and a plane leave the same city at the same time, and the train takes a little over five hours to get to your destination but the plane only takes 75 minutes, which is the better option? If you read the…

The Nissan Leaf is the bestselling electric car in history, but Nissan hasn’t tried to capitalize on that popularity by offering more electric models. The Nissan IMk concept, however, hints at what a different kind of Nissan electric car could look like. Debu…

The Department of Energy has begun to sort out the nation’s next big recycling problem: what to do with batteries used by electric cars. Yesterday, it awarded 15 checks in the amount of $67,000 to the winners of a contest that’s focused on making sure the ba…