Lightyear teams up with Sweden’s Koenigsegg. Tesla and startup EV brands are losing out on the sales, one study suggests. Researchers suggest EV sales targets are an incomplete solution without retiring gas vehicles. And we warm up to the weirdness of the BMW iX. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. In a weeklong drive review of the BMW... BMW iX review, Tesla sales process, ICE retirement, Lightyear and Koenigsegg: Today’s Car News
Lightyear teams up with Sweden’s Koenigsegg. Tesla and startup EV brands are losing out on the sales, one study suggests. Researchers suggest EV sales targets are an incomplete solution without retiring gas vehicles. And we warm up to the weirdness of the BMW iX. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. In a weeklong drive review of the BMW... 
Think EVs are becoming normal? Turning heads inside and outside, and flaunting equal parts tech leading edge and design oddity, the 2023 BMW iX is anything but conventional. And, as I found in a recent week with the iX, this kind of weirdness grew on me. The BMW iX pairs some of the advanced material smarts and the battery and electric propulsion... 
How far weekly does Sono say its Sion solar EV might go without ever charging? Which automaker launched a service aimed at answering questions about EVs? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending July 29, 2022. This week, we drove the one-and-only efficiency-focused Mercedes-Benz... 
Siemens aims to manufacture a workaround for EV-charger home electrical-panel upgrades. Florida bulks up on EV charging infrastructure. And a re-upped EV tax credit could give an immediate boost to GM and Tesla. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The EV tax credit expansion is back, and it’s once again a possibility. Under a Senate... 
Ford is rolling out a police version of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup. States representing nearly half of the U.S. economy are standing behind a plan to electrify trucks and buses. And Honda shows that its upcoming Prologue EV doesn’t look like GM's Ultium EVs on which it’s based. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Honda... 
Ford this morning announced a police-duty version of its F-150 Lightning Pro. The Lightning Pro SSV, which Ford calls America’s first electric police truck, essentially adds a fully electric alternative to the truck Ford already sells to police fleets as the F-150 Police Responder. On the other hand, features that stand out from the... 
Mini teases its electric design future. GM emphasizes that it’s truly ready to scale up EV production. And Faraday Future is up against a new challenge. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Faraday Future’s trajectory has been one, as it points out, of perseverance. And now It’s pointed out in a new filing that it will... 
What might future fully electric models from Mini look like? Mini’s given the best indication yet with the reveal of the Concept Aceman, which it says previews the design direction of the brand and a future all-electric crossover. The form factor itself is interesting. Mini says that the Aceman merges some of the features from the Mini... 
The federal government is likely loaning money to GM’s joint-venture battery operation with LG. VW starts ID.4 production in the U.S. Porsche says it can make EVs profitable—more profitable than gas. And the production Sono Sion makes a bow. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The Sono Sion solar-supplemented EV has been revealed... 
Volkswagen on Tuesday confirmed that production of customer-bound ID.4 models has started at its Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant. The occasion marks the first electric model the automaker has produced in the U.S. Volkswagen says that 190,000 units of the ID.4 have been delivered globally, but only a small fraction of that has been to the U.S., and... 
General Motors and LG might be the first companies in 12 years to be awarded a loan under the federal government’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program, according to a report from Reuters, citing information from officials. LG Energy Solution and GM have been partners in Ultium Cells LLC, which builds the... 
A first drive of the Mercedes EQB and time in the driver’s seat of the Vision EQXX concept lead the lineup this morning. California leads the way in home-charger installation. And GM wants to answer your EV questions. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. We drove the Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX concept. As a benchmark for future electric... 
GM this morning has launched a service it’s calling EV Live, which aims to provide a wide range of answers about EV ownership to prospective buyers and the general public. Said to be part of the automaker’s “holistic approach to EVs,” EV Live will be “an immersive, virtual experience that allows participants to... 
How refreshingly normal. This is good. Very good. That sums my first notes when driving the Mercedes-Benz EQB this past week, out from a Black Forest hotel with a mean umlaut, jetlagged, into the kind of muggy, scorching day—read 99 degrees—that puts one’s tolerance for hot air on high alert. Here, I wasn’t navigating... 
Making the Vision EQXX a benchmark for EV efficiency meant avoiding a downward spiral. It’s one of the main reasons Mercedes-Benz stuck to the idea of an air-cooled battery Vision EQXX concept, and listening to project manager Malte Sievers, it’s one of the key decision points in the project that helped allow it to outperform its... 
Which brand teased an affordable electric convertible? Which EVs outshined gasoline equivalents in a study of new-car owners’ first 90 days? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending July 22, 2022. GM revealed the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV, which shares nothing except a name with... 
GM’s luxury brand previews its flagship model. Ford is ready to push a robotic charging system out for broader use. And not all EVs stumble on the early ownership experience—Mercedes and Kia have models that buck the trend. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The Kia EV6 and Mercedes-Benz EQS outperformed equivalent gas models in... 
Cadillac on Friday pulled the wraps off its Celestiq show car, confirming the look of a future hand-built electric flagship sedan. The concept car, GM says, is inspired by GM’s 120-year heritage and will continue to be developed toward production. First teased last month, the design has stayed a sedan, GM says, rather than an SUV or... 
The US Postal Service gives in to pressure and makes a major boost in the number of electric mail delivery trucks it’s ordering. The Porsche Taycan gets better range, plus a bunch of other updates. And Ford lays out the battery and supply chain pieces leading to a dramatic boost in EV production. This and more, here at Green Car Reports...