Electric Car

Mercedes-AMG is planning a performance electric car to take on Porsche’s Taycan and the most potent of Tesla’s Model S, insiders claim, a beastly luxury EV designed to sit alongside its more traditional gas models. While its all-electric SUV, the EQC, is yet to be launched in the US, Mercedes…

A Tesla engineer explains the company's prototype ventilator for coronavirus patients. Tesla via YouTube The coronavirus crisis has led Elon Musk to jump into the medical device industry, with SpaceX fabricating components for Medtronic MDT ventilators, corporate donations of BiPAP breathing machines that can be modified for use as non-invasive…

Cars Published on April 5th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan April 5th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  For our newest reports, Electric Car Drivers: Demands, Desires & Dreams — European Edition (2020) and Electric Car Drivers: Demands, Desires & Dreams, we were curious whether EV ownership/leasing correlated with rooftop solar panel…

Cars Published on April 4th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley April 4th, 2020 by Steve Hanley  Volkswagen has released a series of videos designed to educate consumers about some of the features that will be included in or available with its upcoming ID.3 battery electric car. It is safe to…

The Ratings Game Published: April 5, 2020 at 10:21 a.m. ET ‘Small victory in a dark environment’, analyst says Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Model 3 delivery event in Shanghai.in January. AFP via Getty Images Tesla Inc. may have cleared a hurdle this week, but investors remained cautions about…

Photo: GMSorry, I meant “vehicles” in the headline. These will be vehicles of some type—probably a crossover and an SUV if I had to guess, though neither company said what Thursday—and they will be made here and allegedly ready for the 2024 model year. GM is supplying the platform, while…

Despite reports of historic unemployment, with roughly 6.6 million Americans filing for unemployment, domestic stocks rose during regular trading today. One day after grim estimates on the potential death toll from the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S. sent stocks tumbling, and amid a continuing economic fallout from the government’s response…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is considering temporarily easing quotas designed to boost production of electric cars to help automakers badly bruised by the coronavirus pandemic to revive slumping sales, people familiar with the matter said. FILE PHOTO: Baojun E100 and E200 all-electric battery cars at a parking lot operated by…

When BMW first debuted the i3, it was widely considered to be the brand’s first true electric car. Realistically, it was. BMW had never made a mass-production electric car before the i3 and it was quite revolutionary for the Bavarian brand. However, it wasn’t actually the first electric car with…

If there’s one thing that has truly united America in this time of crisis, it’s the collective fascination, dismay, and horror that comes from contemplating the main characters in Netflix’ very popular documentary about deeply broken, ruthless, and often economically-toothed large-cat-obsessives and their respective cults/feifdoms, called Tiger King. While the…