Category: Electric cars
12/09/2019
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Tesla rams police car, be glad it wasn’t a Crown Vic
In the latest edition of “Fun Autopilot Fails,” a 2018 Tesla Model 3 rammed a parked state police car in Connecticut on Saturday. The highway patrol vehicle had stopped behind a stranded car on I-95, and the Tesla slammed into it. The police car, while a Ford, was fortunately not a Crown Victoria; those had […]
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GM, LG to make batteries in Ohio
General Motors and LG (Lucky Goldstar) Chem will open a new plant in Lordstown, Ohio to make batteries, creating over 1,100 jobs (some of which will likely go to former GM Lordstown employees). The investment is estimated at $2.3 billion, and will go to a greenfield site. GM sold its Lordstown plant to Lordstown […]
12/04/2019
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What’s taking GM so long with fun electric cars?
General Motors (GM) was actually a pioneer in electric cars, with the creation of the Bob Lutz-sponsored Chevy Volt, followed by the Bolt. While it was critiqued by many for not being a Tesla, the Bolt did have two major advantages over the Model 3: it was well made, without the rather insane defects of […]
12/03/2019
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When do we get the Ram PHEV?
You can get a light-hybrid Ram 1500 with the V6 or V8 gasoline engines, but, so far, we haven’t seen it with the promised plug-in system. One would think a plug-in hybrid system would be easy for Ram; the Pacifica minivan has been out for a while now, using the same engine, albeit with a […]
12/02/2019
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Lucid Motors: Bringing Formula E tech to US buyers
The people behind Tesla’s success are now set to build their own electric car in Arizona, starting at the end of 2020. Former Model S chief engineer Peter Rawlinson projected a very slow ramp-up of production to avoid Tesla’s many quality gaffes; that’s one reason why production is estimated at just 15,000 for all of […]
11/20/2019
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Other versions of the Ford Mach-E still running under camo?
The Ford Mach-E is out in the open now, but only one edition was shown; and there will clearly be a whole range, from the base rear drive economy model (to get that 300 mile range) to the high-performance AWD version (to get those “target 3 seconds” 0-60 times). Perhaps other editions of the Mach-E […]