Category: Electric cars
02/21/2020
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Lucid Air, possibly most efficient and attractive electric, showing at NYC
Lucid Motors’ first car, the Lucid Air, will appear in April at the New York Auto Show. The Silicon Valley automaker developed its own powertrain technologies, and reportedly has the world’s most efficient electric engine: the range is predicted to be 400 miles (easily beating any Tesla), without extra-large battery packs. The company claims its […]
02/19/2020
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Comparing all the electric pickups
Here are all the electric pickups we know about, in one table. There are many blank spots, and not every factoid is final or definite or even on the same scale; for example, GM’s release on its Hummer lists torque at the wheels, but that doesn’t correspond easily to the SAE torque we’re used to […]
02/07/2020
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Inside the Endurance electric pickup, from Lordstown
Rivian has major backers, a massive backlog of orders, and the old Diamond Star (Mitsubishi/Chrysler) plant in Illinois. Tesla has marketing money can’t buy, including constant sci-fi media propaganda pushing Nikola Tesla’s genius to levels he himself (immodest though he was) would be surprised by; and they have plants in California and China. Bollinger has […]
01/31/2020
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Yet another electric truck player: UPS buying 10,000 Arrival trucks
There’s yet another player in the electric-truck market: Arrival, a British company which landed a 10,000-truck order from UPS ($440 million). The deal also comes with UPS buying a portion of Arrival, making it a partly-American-owned company; but Hyundai-Kia has also bought in, to the tune of $110 million, and will sell some Arrivals as […]
01/30/2020
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GMC Hummer EV quietly breaks the internet
Today GMC sent shock waves through the automotive community with the teasing of the GMC Hummer EV in their new “Quiet Revolution” campaign. A series of videos were posted to YouTube showing off GM’s new fully electric truck. What we know so far: We know that the new Hummer will produce 1,000 horsepower and 11,500 […]
01/27/2020
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Rivian reveals revised rates to Reuters
According to Reuters, Rivian’s midrange 2021 R1T pickup will cost under $70,000, and the 2021 R1S utility will run around $72,000. The new prices came from founder R.J. Scaringe, and, in the case of the truck, include the natty color-changing skylight and a somewhat more important 300-mile range. Depending on which battery the buyer chooses, […]
01/23/2020
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Tesla: Unintended Acceleration Allegations Are Fake News
With a short press release sent out this week, Tesla has claimed the allegations about unintended acceleration in their vehicles are completely false, stating that the latest round of allegations were released by a short-seller who profits when Tesla shares decrease in value. The company also mentioned that they have several safety measures in place to […]
01/21/2020
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Lucid to finally show off first model in April, video is up today
Lucid Motors will show off its first production vehicle in April at the New York Auto Show. The new automaker, based on Silicon Valley, is using its internal technologies, and is building a factory in Arizona; the first cars built for sale will appear around the end fo the year. Though most people today are […]
01/17/2020
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Hyperion Motors to debut at New York Auto Show
In April, the Hyperion Company, an aerospace R&D firm, will officially show off its new division, Hyperion Motors. The company claims its products were developed with NASA; Hyperion’s past work has been on electrolyzers, hydrogen storage, and fuel cell systems. Hydrogen cars were a popular idea when George W. Bush was President, but since then […]
01/11/2020
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Hummer is coming back, electrified
Way back when, Renault bought a controlling interest in American Motors (AMC). Since the government did not allow foreign companies to control military contractors, AMC had to spin off its military supply group, which became AM General. The most visible product of AM General was the HMMWV (“Humvee”), which spawned the civilian Hummer. Because it was […]