Electric Car

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang drives a Tesla Model X SUV and uses the electric-car maker's Autopilot and Smart Summon driver-assistance features in a campaign ad. The ad, which was uploaded to YouTube on January 24, focuses on the political i…

Canoo redesigns the electric car from the ground up. It redesigns the ownership model too.Adele Peters of Fast Company writes about the design of the Canoo, a new electric vehicle that doesn't look like a canoe, or for that matter, an electric car. Its designer tells her that, “with electric…

Mini is back to building an electric car. Like last time, the yellow-colored accents and two-door body style are back, but the drivetrain guts are all differentand mostly BMW i3 parts. And now its called the Mini Cooper SE. (Full Disclosure: Mini was kind e…

Artist Refik Anadol, who has appeared on Boing Boing before, designs dreamy installations using artificial intelligence. Some of them he calls 'data paintings.' Anadol manipulates large collections of data and develops machine learning algorithms to create …

The star of BMW's booth at the 2020 Geneva Motor Show will reportedly be a close-to-production concept built to preview an upcoming electric car. Tentatively named i4, it will fall in the same price bracket as the Tesla Model 3. We expected the German firm w… Read More

One analyst is predicting about 50% upside for the electric-car maker's stock. What happened Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) jumped on Tuesday, rising 6.5% as of 11:10 a.m. EST. The gain follows one analyst's decision to significantly increase his 12-month price target for the stock based on the company's recent execution…

FRANKFURT German solar-powered electric car startup Sono Motors said it had raised 50 million euros from a crowd-funding campaign to develop a solar-powered vehicle. Munich-based Sono, founded in 2016, has attracted engineers from Nissan, Opel and Honda to d…

German marque, and the world’s largest car maker by sales, Volkswagen (VW) appears to be wising up to the changing landscape of the automobile world. In a meeting with more than 100 company managers in Berlin this week, VW CEO Herbert Diess said that the company will have to “slaughter…

17 January 2020 • 12:01am Wireless electric car charging is to be trialed on British roads for the first time this year, the Government has announced. The Department for Transport said it is spending £3.4 million installing wireless technology at taxi ranks in Nottingham. The charging points will allow electric…

The 2020 Honda Clarity PHEV is the best among the three Clarity variants in Hondas portfolio. Also, the Clarity is among the most odd-looking vehicles in the market today. The love-it or hate-it styling is here to stay for 2020, but the Clarity PHEV remain…