GMC Hummer EV electric truck: First details emerge before Super Bowl ad

GMC Hummer EVThree days before a Super Bowl ad that will introduce its first all-electric truck to the world, General Motors on Thursday released a few early details of the upcoming GMC Hummer EV. The truck will have a maximum power of 735 kilowatts (1,000 horsepower) and 11,500 foot-pounds of torque. And GMC says it will accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3...

GM’s electric-vehicle future: President Mark Reuss offers some hints

2016 Chevrolet Cruze with Mark Reuss unveiling, Detroit, Jun 2015When General Motors brought five green-car reporters to Michigan this week to announce its Detroit-Hamtramck plant would produce only electric vehicles, it threw in an Easter Egg: a small-group interview with GM president Mark Reuss. Scheduled to last only 5 minutes, the fast-paced chat stretched to 20 minutes and covered a broad range of topics...

GM names Hamtramck as first US plant to build only electric cars

Cruise Origin driverless vehicle introductionQuick! List all the car factories in the U.S. that produce only electric vehicles. It’s a trick question, really, because today, there’s only one. That’s the Tesla assembly plant in Fremont, California, where the company’s three EV models are all built. On Monday, GM announced the U.S. will get another all-EV plant. The...

Toyota vs. electric cars: Smart strategy, or Innovator’s Dilemma?

2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime, 2019 LA Auto ShowAs we enter 2020, carmaking giant Toyota produces and sells the majority of the world's hybrid cars and SUVs. That may prove to be a problem over the next decade. The world’s most profitable mass-market carmaker has made no secret of its antipathy toward battery-electric vehicles during the past 10 years. In 2012, it canceled its plans for a...

We rode in the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E: Here’s what it felt like

2021 Ford Mustang Mach-EThe 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E, the company’s first all-electric SUV, was officially revealed to the world Sunday night in a globally broadcast event. Actual cars won’t show up at dealers until next autumn, but we can already tell you a little about what they’ll be like. Friday evening, groups of three journalists were able to ride...