Inside EVs

Speed Academy has now presented its road ready, all-electric Blue Lightning – a converted Lotus Evora, equipped with a Tesla Model S powertrain and two Chevrolet Volt batteries. After about five months, Blue Lightning is almost fully ready, and all that remains is a month or of track tests, as… …read more

Motorsport.tv explains the inner, intricate workings of a Formula E Racer. A comprehensive walk through of what makes up a Formula E racer begins with a car from Renault’s livery. For today, all the racers are still essentially the same from the outside, but originally at the launch of …read more

All your Tesla Easter eggs wrapped up in one nifty basket. Sort of. With just a few clicks/taps of the screen, you can now access all the available Tesla Easter eggs. As Teslarati explains: “Tesla rolled out a new over-the-air software update today (v8.1 build 17.17.4) which added new Autopilot… …read more

A plug-in pick-up truck with 80 miles of electric range, the Workhorse W-15, was recently unveiled from the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Long Beach, along with its first test drives; although it was still more like a demonstration of a pre-production prototype. The company has apparently increased its Letters …read more

Excessive DC charging takes its toll on your Tesla Model S and X. In fact, it can lead to permanently reduced charging rates. That’s the latest news coming from a Tesla Motors Club (TMC) forum posting. Here are the details, truncated for brevity and to focus on factual info, as… …read more

Although Tesla touts its “Made in America” status, the electric automaker is hosting an upcoming recruiting event in Monterrey, Mexico. According to Reuters, a LinkedIn recruiting poster shows that the electric automaker is set to fill positions for 15 different types of engineers at its Fremont, California plant. The jobs… …read more

GM China prepares for the introduction of more plug-in models. In fact, GM states that two-thirds of all new plug-in vehicle (BEVs, EREV and PHEVs) launches between 2017 and 2020 are to be dedicated models. Buick Velite 5 (the Chinese version of Chevy Volt) is one of those newcomers. …read more

Based on the same technology implemented in the company’s hybrids and EVs. For those of you unfamiliar with Mercedes-Benz Energy GmbH, it’s in charge (get it?) of selling energy storage systems. These are manufactured in Germany by Accuomotive, a wholly owned Daimler subsidiary. 500 million euros (about $543M) were invested… …read more

Tesla continues with its incremental over-the-air software updates to second-generation Autopilot vehicles. The most recent update brings Tesla Vision, the automaker’s own proprietary technology which replaced Mobileye, just about to complete parity with first-generation Autopilot vehicles. It also takes away Autosteer’s speed restrictions. The new maximum speed for Autosteer is… …read more

Tesla Advanced Automation Germany has shifted its focus to only in-house, leaving obligatory contracts with BMW, VW, Daimler, and Bosch high and dry. Now, Tesla is working to facilitate viable solutions. The response was understandably varied when the media learned that Tesla Advanced Automation Germany (formerly Grohmann Engineering) was cutting …read more