Category: Electric cars
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 […]
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, […]