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A Tesla Cybertruck couldn’t charge at a Supercharger station in the Mojave desert and had to be towed, but it gave us a half-decent size comparison with Ford F-150 Raptor. Tesla currently has a large fleet of Cybertruck prototypes undergoing testing in the wild ahead of the start of deliveries at the end of next

As Chinese EV brands expand their European footprint, Michael Mauer, Porsche, and Volkswagens chief designer, is taking note. Mauer says with the ability to “do things completely different,” Chinese EVs are forcing German automakers to be more open-minded. The luxury sports car maker is facing a new type of competition. After nearly 20 years of

Elon Musk said that Tesla will get into “larger scale” advertising, something that investors have been calling for, but only once the company figures out how. Earlier this year, CEO Elon Musk announced a reversal of his longstanding strategy that Tesla not spend on advertising but instead spend money to improve the products – counting on

Hyundai and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced plans Monday to establish a new auto manufacturing plant in “The Kingdom.” Hyundai and Saudi PIF plan new manufacturing plant Hyundai and Saudi’s PIF signed a joint venture agreement to build a new “highly automated vehicle manufacturing plant in Saudi Arabia” at the Saudi-Korean Business Forum.

It’s soon game over for Volkswagen ICE vehicles in Norway. Norwegian VW importer Møller Mobility Group just confirmed the plan to wrap up any orders on ICE vehicles in the country by December 2023 – after that, the brand will only sell its electric models. It’s no surprise that Norway is leading the world in

Wrexham owner Ryan Reynolds has been “gifted” an area of the city for his birthday – with plans in place to transform it into a park in his honour. Reynolds received the special 47th birthday gift in Wrexham city centre from the club’s co-owner Rob McElhenney. A video in the style of US sitcom Parks

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Pexels.com Food trucks in the US are huge business, and huge polluters with noisy generators spewing noxious fumes into the air, making that artisan taco a little less palatable. But this Seattle startup, Joule Case, is building a unique business by supplying modular battery systems to food trucks eager to

Tesla has revealed that the Department of Justice has ramped up its investigation into the company with subpoenas relating to several matters. Lately, there have been several media reports about government agencies investigating Tesla regarding several different matters. In its quarterly SEC reports, Tesla has to report contacts with government agencies regarding any possible investigations,

Toyota is on a roll with EV concepts at this year’s Japan Mobility Show, and the latest has to be among the highest on its customer request list: an electrified Land Cruiser SUV. The Land Cruiser Se concept is as straightforward a look into what a BEV version of the iconic off-roader might look like

England footballer Trent Alexander-Arnold was involved in a crash with another car after a pylon was blown over during Storm Badet’s strong winds. The Liverpool defender’s Range Rover was involved in the collision on a country lane near Knutsford, Cheshire on Friday morning. Cheshire Police said no one was hurt in the collision which came

View of denver skyline. Original public domain image from Flickr Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission unanimously approved a new Colorado Clean Car rule, which essentially follows California’s “Advanced Clean Cars 2” rule but falls short of setting a 2035 target for 100% EV sales. Last year, California finalized a rule which would lead to 100%

With initial production at its new manufacturing facility underway, electric aircraft developer BETA Technologies has begun setting up charging infrastructure to support its ongoing interstate flights. The company held a groundbreaking ceremony in North Carolina today, where it will install the first electric aircraft charging station in the entire state. BETA Technologies is a fully

Tesla tested the bulletproof capacity of the Cybertruck by shooting a Tommy gun at the electric pickup truck. Here’s the result. When first unveiling the Cyvertruck, Tesla claimed that the electric pickup truck was virtually bulletproof: Cybertruck is built with an exterior shell made for ultimate durability and passenger protection. Starting with a nearly impenetrable

Tesla has revealed the Cybertruck’s powertrain configurations and weight capacity with its new truck VIN decoder. The automaker is going to start deliveries of the Cybertruck on November 30, and yet, we still don’t have the specs and pricing of the truck. We assume that Tesla is getting around that by only delivering to employees

Last month, Ford began notifying dealers that it planned to add Apple Maps EV routing to the F-150 Lightning before the end of the year. That rollout has now commenced, with the first wave of lucky F-150 Lightning drivers now able to tap into Apple Maps for their EV routing needs. As first pointed out

Tesla is attempting to boost sales by convincing owners of older Model S and Model X vehicles to upgrade by letting them transfer their free unlimited Supercharging onto new purchases. That’s surprising considering just a few months ago, Tesla was trying to get owners to give up their free Supercharging to get a new car.

We are one year removed from the end of production of the BMW i3. While its makers look to inevitably introduce a successor to the affordable compact EV, don’t expect anything as radical looking. As BMW looks toward its “Neue Klasse” chapter in electrification, a development boss for the company says anything remotely resembling the

Tesla hints at making a new “Plaid” top performance Model 3 in its updated owner’s manual for the Highland version of the electric sedan. The situation around the Model 3 is frustrating for North American buyers as Tesla updated the popular electric sedan with the new Highland version last month, but it is only available

Toyota announced that it signed a deal with Tesla to adopt the NACS connector and get Supercharger access for its future EV owners. NACS has already become the defacto standard for EV connectors in North America. It took a while, but too many automakers have announced that they will adopt it, on top of the

Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is down by as much as 10% today following the release of the company’s earnings and the following disastrous conference call with Elon Musk. Yesterday, Tesla released its Q3 financial results, and it did miss expectations, but the stock was actually flat following the release – presumably because of the announcement of the