Inside EVs

Emerging luxury all-electric automaker, Lucid Motors, will move forward with its Series D financing round, with a goal of raising money toward its $700 million factory. The new electric start-up with former Tesla Model S engineer, Peter Rawlinson, as CTO, hopes to bring its Lucid Air to market in 2019. …read more

Emerging luxury all-electric automaker, Lucid Motors, will move forward with its Series D financing round, with a goal of raising money toward its $700 million factory. The new electric start-up with former Tesla Model S engineer, Peter Rawlinson as CTO, hopes to bring its Lucid Air to market in 2019. …read more

One of the best new plug-in car debuts from the Auto Shanghai show this year was the Chevrolet FNR-X Concept (see initial impressions), build from the minds at GM’s in-house Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (or PATAC). What we know, it that it’s plug-in hybrid, but on the technical side …read more

China is the largest market for the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, so its not strange that German brand presented its new 2018 face-lifted version from Auto Shanghai. But that is ok for the rest of us, because the new offering is also a global product. As always, we could care less …read more

The 10-round championship will kick off with a double-header at Circuit Paul Ricard on 25-26 November 2017 The Electric GT Championship, the world’s first 100% zero-emission GT series, is delighted to announce that the 10-round championship will kick off with a double-header at Circuit Paul Ricard on 25-26 November 2017…. …read more

Nissan has announced a record for overall car sales in Europe for the past fiscal year 2016 (which ended on March 31, 2017). On the electrified side of things, and despite no upgrades of significance, the LEAF and e-NV200 managed to combine to find more than 23,000 sales. That’s new… …read more

Remember those Tesla launch reaction videos from way back when? Well, here’s the newest installment. And this time the world’s quickest production car is featured in the 2017 Tesla Model S P100D with Ludicrous mode. Ever wonder what it feels like to go from 0 to 60 mph in under… …read more

BEYOND LITHIUM: TESLA’S PARTNER PANASONIC HINTS AT ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY IMPROVEMENTS Lithium-ion batteries represent a landmark technology that has made the current generation of electric vehicles possible. However, the day of their demise, while it still lies years in the future, is within view. Lithium-ion chemistries have a certain maximum… …read more

But is it too little, too late? If you want your Apple CarPlay to finally direct you to an electric vehicle charger, good news. Apple is expanding its built-in navigation app with EVSE information for Europe, starting with the UK. This sort of info came to the U.S. part of… …read more

Tesla’s Ultra White seats ($3,300 option on the Model X) are described by the automaker as “being stain resistant, easy to clean and best of all seats during high-volume test drives,” but how do they fare in the real world? To find out, we turn it over to Bjorn Nyland,… …read more