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Korean Auto Giant Hyundai Unveils $16 Billion Plan To Accelerate Electric Vehicle Push
Hyundai Motor’s Euisun Chung. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor plans to invest about $16 billion and roughly double its market share in the global electri...
Ford Rises On Plan To Carve Out ‘Model e’ Electric Vehicle Business
Ford CEO Jim Farley at a briefing in Dearborn, Michigan, on the carmaker’s new business structure. Ford Motor Ford Motor Co. is doubling down on plans to compete with Elon Musk’s Tesla, General Motors...
Ford splits EVs and legacy autos into separate units
People visit Ford’s all-electric SUV Mustang Mach-E at the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, the United States, Nov. 22, 2019. Xinhua via Getty Images DETROIT – Ford Motor said Wednesda...
EVs Face Skeptics In Heartland, But That Region Will Make Most Of Them
Pre-production on the F-150 Lightning at a Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford It’s always been in the background of the nation’s ongoing transition to electric transportation, but now a significan...
‘Charging As A Service’ For Electric Vehicles Growing As A Market Offering
Refueling has traditionally been an individual transaction based upon the fuel requested, but now a … [+] newer business model is available to subscribing customers. getty Amongst several impedi...
EVs dominated Super Bowl ads, but only 9% of passenger car sales
Visitors wearing face masks check a China-made Tesla Model Y sport utility vehicle (SUV) at the electric vehicle maker’s showroom in Beijing, China January 5, 2021. Tingshu Wang | Reuters Six of...
Apple Supplier Foxconn, Electric Scooter Maker Gogoro To Co-Invest In Indonesia Battery Cell Project
Horace Luke, founder and CEO of Gogoro, a Taiwanese company that developed a battery-swapping … [+] refueling platform for urban electric two-wheel scooters, mopeds and motorcycles, posing for p...
Electric Vehicles Will Need New Taxation Or Governments Will Lose Billions
Governments all over the world rely on the income from vehicle tax and a percentage from the fuel vehicles use. But with EVs, that fuel revenue is gone. This is causing great concern everywhere that E...
Biden Opens Access To $5 Billion To Build National EV Charging Network
US President Joe Biden talks about manufacturing chargers for electric vehicles on Feb. 8, 2022. AFP via Getty Images The Biden Administration is opening up access to at least $5 billion in new federa...
Elon Musk’s Tesla helped make EVs ‘possible in America’
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday recognized Tesla as a pioneer of electric vehicle manufacturing in the U.S. “We admire the range of American companies that have innovated, i...
Michigan 2050 Carbon Neutrality Goal Could Be An Economic Engine
Michigan’s new economywide 2050 carbon neutral proposal vaults it into the vanguard of United States climate ambition. It’s just the fourth such goal nationwide with interim targets of 28% carbon redu...
Toyota U.S. sales chief says win over GM ‘not sustainable,’ but expects bet on EVs to pay off
Toyota is making big bets on hybrids and electric vehicles after dethroning General Motors as America’s top automaker. “What we are still seeing today is that many consumers that are in th...
Electric Cars Are As Green As You Think And Don’t Produce More Polluting Particles
The war of words against EVs is hotting up, as I’ve mentioned before. Now the UK’s own Environment Minister George Eustice has waded in and amplified a common trope amongst electric vehicle haters – t...
Navitas’ gallium nitride tech could help EVs charge three times faster
A charging port is seen on a Mercedes Benz EQC 400 4Matic electric vehicle at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 13, 2019. Mark Blinch | Reuters Navitas Semicond...
Brand Has 75% Share Of State’s EV Market
Tesla continues to dominate electric vehicles sales in the biggest U.S. market for them. Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk moved Tesla’s headquarters and his residence to Texas, but California remain...
Bentley To Spend $3.4 Billion To Become All-Electric By 2030
British luxury carmaker Bentley is investing 2.5 billion pounds ($3.4 billion) to replace its three … [+] gas-powered models with battery electric cars by 2030. getty Bentley, the Volkswagen-own...
Bentley to invest $3.4 billion to exclusively offer EVs by 2030
A rendering of Bentley’s new electric vehicle production operatins in Crewe, England. Bentley Bentley Motors plans to spend 2.5 billion pounds (about $3.4 billion) over the next decade to become...
Tesla Lithium Supplier Ganfeng Says Profit Soared As Much As 437% In 2021
About half of Tesla’s global production is at this Gigafactory in Shanghai, according to a Reuters … [+] estimate. Photo is from Dec. 2020. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomb...
How the U.S. fell way behind in lithium, ‘white gold’ for EVs
The United States has a lithium supply problem. Nearly every major automaker has announced a transition to electric vehicles, Tesla delivered almost one million cars in 2021, and a handful of new elec...
Bollinger Motors Cancels B1, B2 In Shift To Commercial EVs
The 2019 Bollinger Motors electric SUV is displayed during the Los Angeles Auto Show, Thursday, Nov. … [+] 30, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) ASSOCIATED PRESS Bollinger Motors is...
Three Transportation Surprises In 2022
Christmas and New Year celebrations are behind us, and kids have jettisoned their educational toys and are busy playing with their new video games. The rest of us are wondering when Omicron will be ov...
Tesla Says It Delivered Record 936,172 Electric Vehicles In 2021
A Model Y electric hatchback recharging at a Tesla supercharger station at the European Energy Forum campus in Berlin. © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Tesla, the fastest-growing U.S. automaker, reported r...
Why Auto Giants And Startups Are Marketing Electric Vehicles To More Mainstream Audiences
Last year, Disney partnered with General Motors on a campaign as part of GM’s broader strategy for marketing electric vehicles. (In this ad, the 2022 Chevy Bolt is shown with a Star Wars X-Wing ...
Ford Is All In on EVs. One Analyst Isn’t Buying It.
Text size Ford SUVs on a sales lot. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Ford Motor made waves this week, announcing plans to create separate business units inside the company, one for electric vehicles and t...