Inside EVs

Audi, Porsche Join Forces On Autonomous EVs “Porsches will still be Porsches.” Audi and Porsche are going to work together on a new shared vehicle architecture fit for 2025: it will be electrified, digitised, and ready for autonomous driving. And, because “the best brains of both companies will together set… …read more

More than a half-million electrified passenger vehicles (a term we hate, as it refers in this case to both hybrids and plug-ins) were sold in Europe last year. If we look close at the stats, we can see the market share and growth of each category: Conventional hybrids (full hybrids +… …read more

BYD, which has shifted a lot of its resources and investment into the New Energy Vehicle (aka plug-ins) segment in China, was hit hard by changes and delays in Chinese policies towards EVs. A 20% lower subsidy rate in 2017, and a new stricter requirement on manufacturers to certify EVs… …read more

OLI SYKES MIGHT HAVE THE MOST SINISTER TESLA EVER When Oliver “Oli” Sykes reached out to me on social media, I quickly learned he had… um, a few million followers. Between Twitter and Instagram, he’s got plenty of adoring fans. I guess it helps to be the lead singer of Bring me… …read more

China’s Tencent Holdings is now a major stakeholder in Tesla Inc. A recent filing shows that Tencent now owns in excess of 8 million Tesla shares, making the company a 5% stakeholder. Only T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford, FMR and Elon Musk own more stake in Tesla than Tencent. To… …read more

As announced last December, college student teams are going to try and improve the Chevy Bolt EV. At the SAE WCX event in Detroit this week, the eight schools selected to compete in the inaugural AutoDrive Challenge – and which will get Bolts for their workshops – were named: Kettering… …read more

The “Blue Lightning” Lotus Evora project is progressing. Sasha Anis from OnPointDyno just sent us the latest update on the project, complete with a video and new gallery of photo (below) giving us a good look at how things are progressing. After earlier drivetrain tests on the dyno alone, the car is… …read more

General Motors’ Maven continues to tweak its service, and is now offering a monthly service called Maven Reserve. The car sharing division reports that, thus far, the Chevrolet Volt is among its most popular vehicles. Maven Reserve allows members to choose a vehicle, and keep it for 28 days, for… …read more

The issue is scale. Getting one car to report to the cloud that there’s a pothole in the road or that it has started to rain isn’t all that useful. But if you have 100 car reporting the same thing – or all the cars on the road, one day… …read more

Tesla has definitely enjoyed its fair share of awards over the years. However, with the esteem and track record of the top German automakers pitted against the American startup, most wouldn’t assume that Tesla would come out on top … especially in a German awards ceremony. Tesla recently proved that… …read more