Production of the 2025 Volvo EX90 electric SUV for the U.S. market is now underway in Charleston, South Carolina, Volvo confirmed Wednesday with a press release. Unveiled in November 2022, the EX90 was originally scheduled to start deliveries in early 2024, but was held back due to software issues. Volvo now plans to deliver the first U.S... Volvo starts production of EX90 EV in US
Production of the 2025 Volvo EX90 electric SUV for the U.S. market is now underway in Charleston, South Carolina, Volvo confirmed Wednesday with a press release. Unveiled in November 2022, the EX90 was originally scheduled to start deliveries in early 2024, but was held back due to software issues. Volvo now plans to deliver the first U.S... 
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is once again criticizing the Biden administration's EV tax credit rules, reports Reuters. Manchin, who is known for opposing Biden administration policies and last week left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent, told U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during a hearing of the Senate... 
New York City's iconic fleet of taxis once included some EVs—but you have to look back more than a century to find them. As National Geographic explains in a recent article, electric taxis had a brief moment of popularity in the city in the 1890s. The fleet quickly grew from a dozen vehicles in 1897 to over 100 by 1899. It's an important... 
Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis are pausing work on two EV battery plants and may be looking to LFP battery cells to lower costs, reports Bloomberg. Automotive Cells Company (ACC), a battery supplier for the two automakers with plans to open three new battery plants in Europe at a cost of 7.6 billion euros (approximately $8.2 billion at current... 
A recently surfaced patent application from Ford envisions a new type of EV battery swapping system. EV battery swapping generally involves removing a depleted battery pack from underneath the vehicle and sliding in a fully charged one. But in this patent application, the automaker discusses drive-up docking stations that would use a vehicle's own... 
The Biden administration funded a $7.5 billion national EV charging network as part of the 2021 infrastructure law, but despite the investment new charging stations are rolling out at a slow pace, reports Automotive News. The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program calls for 500,000 charging stations nationwide, but to date only... 
Mercedes-Benz is recalling 14,912 EVs in the U.S. to address a battery management system software issue that could cause a loss of drive power. The recalled vehicles include all versions of the EQS and EQE sedans, as well as the EQS SUV and EQE SUV, from model years 2023 to 2025, depending on the variant. These vehicles may have battery management... 
Hyundai on Friday confirmed its first EV for U.S. production, while the automaker's Kia brand began U.S. EV production that same day. But neither brand is discussing eligibility for the $7,500 federal tax credit quite yet. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 will be the first model produced at the automaker's EV "Metaplant" near Savannah, Georgia, Jose... 
A $25,000 Jeep EV is coming to the U.S. "very soon," Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares told CNBC and other media at a Bernstein investor conference last week. "If you ask me what is an affordable BEV, I would say 20,000 euros in Europe and $25,000 in the U.S.,” Tavares said at the conference, which was held prior to last week's Wagoneer S debut... 
When the Chevrolet Bolt EV returns next year it will be the most affordable EV in the U.S., Marissa West, president of General Motors North America, said in a recently published interview with Automotive News. GM discontinued the Bolt EV at the end of 2023 but has since then emphasized it's coming back. The next-generation Bolt EV will share... 
Faster DC charging has required a new generation of cable cooling, but General Motors is also looking at cooling of the charge port, a patent filing indicates. Published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) April 25, 2024, and originally filed by GM October 18, 2022, the patent application in question deals with cooling of EV... 
Global SUV sales continue to grow and, EV or not, so do their emissions, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). SUVs accounted for a record 48% of global car sales in 2023, but surpassed 50% of the market for the first time in "advanced economies" with around 20 million sales, according to the IEA. And while only 5% of SUVs on the... 
Amid uncertainty about the future of the Tesla Supercharger network, rival charging networks see an opportunity to grow. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently fired most of the Tesla Supercharger team, but has since reversed that move and attempted to hire people back. Tesla has also made it clear that it will continue the buildout of whatever new... 
Volkswagen on Tuesday announced a goal of launching an EV priced at 20,000 euros—equivalent to $22,000 at current exchange rates—in 2027. This affordable EV is aimed at the European market, with a high degree of manufacturing and supply-chain localization entailed in the project, VW said in a press release. This will allow for shorter... 
Toyota, Subaru, and Mazda on Tuesday announced a joint effort to improve efficiency and reduce emissions from internal-combustion engines. The development effort will take a number of different approaches, including smaller engines, according to a press release from the automakers. These engines will also allow for lower hoods, opening up new... 
Two House Democrats are demanding that the Department of Energy report projected lifecycle emissions for seven federally-funded hydrogen hubs. First reported by Politico, Reps. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Don Beyer of Virginia wrote a letter to the Energy Department's of Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) asking for clarification on the... 
Younger U.S. drivers are more open to driving vehicles from Chinese brands than their older counterparts, according to a new AutoPacific survey. But concerns about how Chinese brands manage data privacy were high regardless of age. No vehicles from Chinese brands are currently sold in the U.S., and that's unlikely to change due to new tariffs. But... 
Stellantis on Wednesday released a new teaser video for the 2024 Jeep Wagoneer S showing that the electric SUV has the Tesla Model Y in its sights. A voiceover declares that Jeep is "taking on America's bestselling EV brand," setting up a race between a Wagoneer S (albeit a pre-production one) and a Model Y Performance. In the video, Jeep quotes a... 
The Gravity charging company on Wednesday unveiled a new design for EV charging stations that it believes will be the foundation of a massive urban fast-charging network. Styled as Distributed Access Energy Points (DEAPs), the chargers take the form of what Gravity calls "trees," taller structures in which the charge cable dangles from an extended... 
General Motors earlier this year confirmed plans to reintroduce plug-in hybrids to supplement its EV lineup, but we're only now getting a hint at the timing for those new plug-in hybrids. Speaking to the Detroit News, GM CEO Mary Barra said the automaker was "timing the launches to help us comply with more stringent fuel efficiency and tailpipe...