Electric Cars

Volkswagen is putting on a full court press when it comes to SUVs and alternative energy vehicles. Shifting sentiment in the aftermath of Dieselgate won’t be easy, but the company feels these vehicles, targeted directly at American consumers, will change the tide. Fortunately, VW’s...

Honda’s theme of its 2017 Consumer Electronics Show presence is something it calls the Cooperative Mobility Ecosystem, where via artificial intelligence, robotics and big data the various aspects of one’s life are combined in order to foster safer, more productive use of time. For...

Electric car startup Faraday Future on Tuesday unveiled its first car, the FF 91. The luxury SUV, which makes its official debut on January 5 at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show, is still officially a concept, though it points to the design and performance buyers can expect when sales eventually...

Faraday Future, the startup electric brand with Chinese backing based in Nevada, introduced its first production-intent vehicle today on the sidelines of the 2017 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. The FF 91 is a crossover SUV that boasts 1,050 horsepower and posts a 2.39-second 0-60 mph time...

In late 2015, Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] pledged to spend $4.5 billion over a five-year period to develop 13 new electrified cars by 2020. Ford on Tuesday identified seven of the 13 electrified cars in a company-wide strategy announcement that also outlined plans to create more jobs in the United...

The Bugatti Veyron may no longer be the king of internal combustion horsepower. The Bugatti Chiron's 1,480 horses now takes the production horsepower crown, but 1,200 ponies kicked out by a quad-turbocharged W-16 is still plenty. But how does it compare to 1,088 electron-induced horses? Matt Rimac...

Starting in 2017 is a new electric car racing series called the Electric GT Championship in which teams compete using race cars based on the Tesla [NSDQ:TSLA] Model S. The series aims to be the world’s first competition for production-based electric cars, although unlike the Formula E...

The Silicon Valley-based Lucid Motors, formerly Atieva, revealed what appears to be the production version of its electric sedan today, and our suspicions have been confirmed. The standard battery pack will have 100 kilowatt-hours of power and offer more than 300 miles of range. An optional pack...

The Consumer Electronics Show has become one of the major events on the automotive calendar in recent years as the convergence of the auto and tech industries has become unequivocal. The 2017 CES is just around the corner and already we have confirmation that the firms Faraday Future, Honda and...

Faraday Future has given us our best look yet at its first production model, an electric car confirmed for a debut at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show. The car looks to feature a hatch-like design with a form factor similar to the Toyota Prius. It will ride on the now standard...

Chinese electric car startup NextEV in November launched the new brand Nio whose first model, the 1,360-horsepower EP9 supercar, is already one of the fastest production cars in the world, having lapped the Nürburgring in just 7:05.12. But the EP9 is a limited edition model for...

Canadian startup Girfalco on Friday unveiled a thinly-veiled concept for a new three-wheel electric sports car that promises to be one of the quickest-accelerating cars money can buy. Called the Azkarra, the two-seat electric three-wheeler is designed for both road and track use and in its most...

Here's what we know: The Maserati Alfieri concept from the 2014 Geneva auto show is headed towards production sometime after 2018. Also, Maserati will get its first electric car around 2020. It's been hinted that a version of the Alfieri could be the brand's first electric car, though likely...

It was in June that American electric vehicle startup Nikola turned up out of the blue and announced plans to unveil an electric semi-trailer truck by the end of the year. On Thursday, the company stayed true to its word and presented the One electric semi-trailer Class 8 truck. The Nikola One is...

Just as Faraday Future struggles to get its plant off the ground, another Chinese-backed electric car startup based in the United States has chosen a location for its own plant. The company is Lucid, formerly known as Atieva, and on Tuesday it announced plans to build a $700 million plant in Casa...

As they gear up to launch a new generation of volume electric cars, the major automakers are following Tesla’s [NSDQ:TSLA] lead of rolling out charging infrastructure to help eliminate range anxiety for owners. But instead of going it alone with individual standards, as Tesla has done with...

Just in time for the holiday season, Fisher-Price has a new Power Wheels Mustang based on the sixth-generation version of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] icon. There’s no hulking V-8 under the hood as the car is battery-powered. But that’s where the similarities with Power Wheels of old...

Move over Morgan. A Canadian sports car startup is working on a rival to the British firm’s EV3 electric 3 Wheeler and it promises to be one of the fastest accelerating cars in production. The company is Girfalco, based in Boucherville, Quebec, and its first model is a three-wheel...

As it continues to deal with its diesel emissions scandal and push into electric cars, the Volkswagen Group in the past week has been making statements on future strategy. On Friday we learned that the automaker planned to shed around 30,000 jobs over the coming years as it scales back production...

Volkswagen’s famous Transparent Factory in the German city of Dresden will soon be churning out cars again. The plant, which features glass walls and an open-plan design, was last used to build VW’s Phaeton. But after production of the flagship sedan came to an end in March, the plant...