Volvo’s US Polestar electric-car plans are in flux over China tariffs

Polestar 2Higher tariffs placed on cars made in China won't impact Polestar's future plans for the U.S. but could affect the price of its cars, the brand said Wednesday. Responding to reports that its CEO suggested that the nascent electric carmaker, which is owned by Volvo, might pull the plug on cars in the U.S., a Polestar spokesman confirmed that their...

2020 Tesla Model Y: Latest price, range, specs for new crossover SUV

Teaser for Tesla Model Y electric SUV due for reveal in 2019The 2020 Tesla Model Y has the potential to amount to an even greater sales success than the Model 3, as it borrows some of the same underpinnings of that sedan and marries it to what so many American families today want: a crossover utility vehicle shape. The California carmaker may have been prescient in seeing a sweet spot for electric...

VW ID Buggy teases potential of electric-car platform with some beach fun

Volkswagen ID Buggy conceptVolkswagen has already served up a suite of concepts for its upcoming electric vehicles built on its modular electric architecture (MEB). While most of those are likely headed to volume production in some form, now it’s brought out a fun one: the VW ID Buggy concept. In a release on the concept, which bowed at the Geneva Motor Show today, VW...

Honda e Prototype is a production-bound Urban EV for Europe

Honda e PrototypeOne of Honda’s best-received concepts of recent memory was the car that it brought to the Frankfurt auto show in 2017—the Urban EV Concept, a model that reincarnated the automaker’s old City hatchback, with elements of retro Civic thrown in, all built as a modern electric car. Wednesday, Honda revealed its evolution of that...