Category: Electric cars
08/03/2020
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Is it good or bad for Chrysler when the Pacifica Hybrid wins awards?
Is it good or bad for Chrysler when the Pacifica Hybrid wins awards? The latest accolade for the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid is from the AAA, or American Automobile Association, a mildly influential group which named the Hybrid its topic SUV-and-minivan; it was also one of the top three cars picked by AAA overall. What’s wrong […]
08/02/2020
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2020 – no, wait, 2021 – maybe 2022 is when the flood of good electric vehicles is coming
Lucid Air starts production next year, and Rivian will be pumping out tens of thousands of Amazon vans and maybe some Ford-badged pickups and other vehicles. But the electric vehicle world will really be hopping in 2022, when all the various new electric car companies will either be running at full speed, or at least be […]
05/12/2020
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Design Study: Electric Dodge SUV
Over the past few years, the number of electric cars available has increased dramatically. From hypercars to pickups, there are electric options for nearly every segment of the market. One trend that has emerged is the coupling of versatile body styles–utility vehicles, for instance–with extreme performance that can be achieved through electrification. Ford’s Mustang […]
05/04/2020
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Rivian returning to Normal for virus
Rivian has decided to return a $1 million grant from Normal, Illinois, originally provided as an incentive to build electric cars in the former Mitsubishi-Chrysler joint-venture plant. The Normal plant built cars engineered almost entirely by Mitsubishi, and sold under both Chrysler and Mitsubishi labels. Rivian moved in during 2016 and is preparing to make […]
03/21/2020
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Bad timing for the electric pickup party
Several startups and some major players are trying to pump out electric pickups, but it seems as though time may have run out on them. Thanks partly to the coronavirus outbreak, coupled with a stock market bubble and an incredibly overleveraged (over-indebted) corporate world, there may be few people who can buy their products when […]
03/13/2020
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Comparing the new Koenigsegg Gemera to the Tesla Roadster
Koenigsegg once again has grabbed headlines with the unveiling of their new (and wicked fast) Gemera. The Koenigsegg Gemera is the world’s first “Mega-GT” and Koenigsegg’s first vehicle with four seats. Tesla unveiled its Roadster back in November 2017, though it hasn’t hit production yet; it also boasted four seats and unbelievable performance numbers. Gemera. The […]
03/10/2020
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Lucid racing to get sports car on the road
Lucid Air, which started by delivering electric-car technology to other companies and is now preparing what might be the most sleek, attractive electric car on the market, is racing to get its Arizona factory built with speed not seen since World War II. Other companies bought factories from GM, Mitsubishi, and Toyota; Lucid is building […]
03/07/2020
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GM Shocks With Future EV Portfolio
We’ve known for quite some time that GM is planning to go all-in on electric vehicles. When they discontinued the Volt, they indicated that they were tired of simply dipping their toes in the water with hybrid vehicles, instead wanting to focus on fully electric vehicles. The Chevy Bolt, their first mainstream all-electric car, has […]
03/06/2020
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State: Tesla has been lying about its safety record
A Bloomberg News story by Josh Eidelson and Dana Hull used state records to show that worker safety is a real issue at Tesla. The electric automaker logged hundreds of injuries which it failed to report to the government, according to a state memo; the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (CDOSH) has cited […]
02/24/2020
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Is Ford really suffering, or are the pundits just herding again?
Ford dominates pickup trucks, commercial vans, and police cars; one wonders why anyone else even bothers to try to compete with them in vans and squads. Their dominance of the pickup market has become legendary and to some degree self-fulfilling: because they make so many, (unlike GM) under the same brand, they can have a […]