Polestar Precept concept teases future flagship four-door electric car

Polestar Precept conceptPolestar Tuesday revealed the first full photos and information for the Precept, a concept electric car that will be shown in March at the Geneva International Motor Show. Polestar has, in recent weeks, been teasing the Precept concept from the inside out. It’s already revealed that the concept would be upping the ante with more sustainable...

Electric pickup from former GM plant will have in-wheel hub motors

Lordstown Endurance wheel hub motorLordstown Motors is planning to use a former GM facility near Cleveland, Ohio, to effectively beat GM to the punch—in offering an all-electric, made-in-America pickup. “Our goal is to build the first electric pickup truck in the United States and likely the world,” said CEO Steve Burns, in a video (below) released last Wednesday...

Snow set: The best plug-in hybrids and EVs for winter driving

2017 Tesla Model XPlug-in vehicles make up a much larger portion of the market in California than in the rest of the nation. And yet many EVs and plug-in hybrids are able enough to take on serious winter driving in Snow Belt states—where getting through the white stuff is an everyday thing, not just something you encounter on the last few miles to the ski...

Consumer Reports: Tesla improves as a brand, Model 3 named a Top Pick

2020 Tesla Model 3The publication and organization Consumer Reports on Thursday named the Tesla Model 3 its top electric car and the Toyota Prius and Prius Prime its top hybrid and plug-in hybrid for 2020. While the Prius is a longtime pick from the publication, the Model 3 is new to the list, and Tesla as a brand was singled out as much-improved as a brand. Tesla...

GM adds real-time charging-station smarts—via app—to Chevy Bolt EV

Chevrolet Bolt EV charging at EVgo stationGM plans the reveal of a Cadillac electric vehicle for April, the first full look at a GMC-branded Hummer EV in May, and more details about its electric-vehicle underpinnings in March. Ahead of that EV push, GM is clearly covering its bases for current drivers of the Chevrolet Bolt EV—as well as, perhaps, those future products. Through the...

Fuel-tank issue for 2019-2020 RAV4 Hybrid: Toyota still investigating

2019 Toyota RAV4 HybridToyota continues to investigate an issue that can prevent drivers of its top-selling U.S. hybrid, the 2019-2020 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, from filling their tank up completely. The issue, which was first reported by Automotive News back in December, was identified by a wide range of complaints from various sources—including several logged at...

Polestar EV brand shows its future interface beyond the Polestar 2

Polestar models' future HMIPolestar, the electric performance-car brand that’s a joint effort from Volvo and Geely, has revealed the future direction of its human machine interface (HMI)—which is essentially how the driver interacts with the car, and vice versa. The short of it: Polestar is going all-in with Google, and with Google Android. That includes the...

Tesla Model S and X Long Range Plus deliver more range: S gets 390 miles

2020 Tesla Model XThe Tesla Model S fastback and Model X crossover have received another significant range boost that applies to more than just vehicles soon to be delivered. On Friday, Tesla updated the range ratings for its longest-range versions of the Model S and Model X—to up to 390 miles for the S and 351 miles for the X. That represents a boost of...

Tesla Gigafactory 4 clearing stalls due to environmentalists in Germany

2020 Tesla Model XTesla’s construction of its Gigafactory 4, outside Berlin, Germany, will likely result in the creation of many hundreds of thousands of new electric vehicles per year—helping replace internal combustion vehicles and meet ambitious EU carbon dioxide targets. So it’s an odd juxtaposition that Tesla is being ordered to stop cutting...