Electric

The dominos keep falling. Toyota and its luxury brand Lexus are adding their names to the long list of car companies that have reached a deal with Tesla to gain access to more than 12,000 Superchargers in Canada and the U.S. Customers owning or leasing a Toyota or Lexus EV …

November 21 will mark four years since Tesla initially revealed the Cybertruck as a concept, and customers are still waiting. A first production unit rolled off the line in Austin, Texas, but that was merely an effort to appease people including shareholders. During a conference call to discuss the company’s …

Belgian-based company Umicore this week held a groundbreaking event in Loyalist, Ontario, about 25 km from Kingston, where it will build a 35GWh equivalent battery materials production plant to serve the North American EV market. The engineering and permitting process is ongoing and Umicore expects to begin construction on the …

It’s now BMW Group’s turn to partner with Tesla to give its customers access to designated Superchargers across North America, effective early 2025. Owners of vehicles equipped with a Combined Charging System (CCS) connector will receive an adapter enabling them to plug into Tesla’s fast chargers. This includes the BMW …

General Motors has made quite a statement with the launch of the outrageously sized and amazingly capable GMC Hummer EV , but the fact of the matter is that a lot more people are waiting for a Chevrolet Silverado EV or GMC Sierra EV . And yet the automaker now …

Many of the new electric vehicles hitting the market or coming soon are SUVs and pickups with big and heavy batteries (the GMC Hummer EV’s weighs as much as a Mazda3!) designed to offer drivers compelling range. However, these batteries can be quite expensive, accounting for up to nearly a …

Is the sun setting on the dream of a solar-powered car for everyday use? The once-promising Lightyear One is dead now following the bankruptcy of its Dutch maker earlier this year. However, many other projects are in the works and showing plenty of potential. Making headlines this week is the …

Ford , which set a goal to triple F-150 Lightning production in 2023, reaching 150,000 units, must now revise its plans and eliminate one of three shifts at the Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. The move is effective starting today but no one knows how long it will last. Some …

Kia ’s first-ever EV Day in South Korea focused a lot on the third member of the company’s next-generation electric vehicle lineup, the EV5 . This compact SUV with boxy styling was initially shown at a previous event in China back in August. Riding on the same modular platform as …