$3B GM-Samsung battery plant might enable electric Corvette, Camaro

Possible electric Chevrolet Camaro in GM Ultium teaser videoGM and Samsung SDI announced Tuesday that they will form a joint venture for battery production. In a release, the companies made clear that this joint venture, starting with more than $3 billion, won’t initially be making batteries that directly replace or augment the brand’s Ultium cell strategy developed with LG. The new plant will...

Lucid Gravity electric SUV is being road-tested, official debut soon

Lucid Gravity testingCalifornia’s Lucid Motors today revealed a couple of first photos of its upcoming Gravity electric SUV undergoing testing—in camouflaged form—on U.S. public roads. The Gravity is due for a production start in 2024, with an official detail, specification details, and an opening of the reservation queue all expected soon this...

California hits 1.5 million plug-in vehicles

2021 Ford Mustang Mach-ECalifornia is farther ahead on the road to electric vehicle adoption than it anticipated a decade ago. Governor Gavin Newsom last week announced that the state had passed a cumulative 1.5 million cumulative plug-in vehicle sales. That’s two years ahead of a goal set by previous California Governor Jerry Brown, aiming to hit that number by...

In the shift to EVs, are tailpipes a sign of the past?

ExhaustIt’s Earth Day. And in what’s become a Green Car Reports’ Earth Day tradition, it’s time to revisit a litmus test for how much the vehicle market has changed. The question: “When will buying vehicles with tailpipes be seen as morally wrong?” Or, to paraphrase and clarify: When will driving around your...

GMC Hummer EV Pickup climbs to 355-mile estimate, SUV at 314 miles

2024 GMC Hummer EV SUVGM on Friday released range estimations for its 2023 GMC Hummer EV Pickup and 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV, including for both body styles of the loaded 3X trim. The company is now suggesting that one of the models of its so-called supertruck might go 355 miles on a charge. If anything, that's a testament to how much impact tires can have on EV range...

Polestar 4 will rival Model Y with $60,000 start, 300-mile range

2025 Polestar 4Polestar on Tuesday revealed the sporty Polestar 4 electric “SUV coupe” at the Shanghai auto show, including mention that it sees over 300 miles of range by EPA standards. With a 0-60 mph time of just 3.8 seconds and a maximum power of 544 hp and 506 lb-ft of torque in it top-performance dual-motor version, Polestar notes that...

2024 Lincoln Nautilus bows from China, leans hybrid

2024 Lincoln Nautilus hybrid Black LabelThe redesigned version of the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus crossover utility vehicle is the latest luxury vehicle to drop larger engines and go hybrid instead. Base versions of the Nautilus will be powered by a 2.0-liter turbo-4 engine making 250 hp and 275 lb-ft of torque, while much of the lineup will arrive in hybrid form rather than with the outgoing...

Which American-made EVs qualify for full $7,500 tax credit?

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EVThe revised Clean Vehicle Credit that was enacted last August as part of the Inflation Reduction Act immediately shifted to apply solely to American-made electric vehicles. That may have been easy enough to understand; but the law also introduced new critical mineral and battery component requirements, and it’s going to require paying...

EV models outnumber PHEV choices for the first time since 2014

2023 Toyota Prius PrimePlug-in hybrid tech continues to be something that neither automakers nor regulators can completely agree on. Some, like Toyota, Volvo, BMW, and others see them as a smart, effective bridge technology to EVs while others, including GM and Honda see them, at least for now in the U.S., as an unnecessary complication in the shift to EVs. In light of...

Ram CEO: Global reach of brand may allow smaller electric pickup

2025 Ram 1500 REVWith the pending arrival of the 2025 Ram 1500 REV electric truck, joining the market alongside the Ford F-150 Lightning, Chevy Silverado EV, GMC Silverado EV, and Rivian R1T, there will be no shortage of fully electric full-size truck offerings. But is there a future for compact or mid-size electric trucks, in the form of a small electric pickup...

500-mile Ram 1500 REV: Will it be upstaged by range-extended XR?

2025 Ram 1500 REV at the 2023 New York auto showLast week at the New York auto show, Ram wowed with a new goal post for electric trucks: a targeted range of 500 miles for its 2025 Ram 1500 REV. That range number, introduced by Ram Brand CEO Mike Koval Jr., could make the 1500 REV king of the EV hill in what matters most to many shoppers, and second only to the Lucid Air sedan’s 516 miles...