General Motors is now rolling out its PowerBank energy-storage battery packs, providing the first real competition to the Tesla Powerwall home energy-storage system directly from an automaker. While other automakers have discussed energy-storage products, and the Ford F-150 Lightning can be had with a home backup power system, GM appears to be the... GM PowerBank home energy storage arrives, could outflex Tesla
General Motors is now rolling out its PowerBank energy-storage battery packs, providing the first real competition to the Tesla Powerwall home energy-storage system directly from an automaker. While other automakers have discussed energy-storage products, and the Ford F-150 Lightning can be had with a home backup power system, GM appears to be the... 
Volkswagen plans to launch eight affordable electric vehicles by 2027, brand boss Thomas Schaefer said in a recent interview with German publication Auto Motor und Sport (via Reuters). "We have to produce our vehicles profitably and put them on the road at affordable prices," Schaefer said in the interview. One of those affordable models will be... 
The 2025 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid costs $33,295 and sees no changes from the 2024 model The RAV4 Hybrid still has 219 hp and is now rated at 40 mpg combined The RAV4 Plug-In Hybrid carries a premium with a base price of $45,260 The 2025 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid carries over into the new model year unchanged, arriving at U.S. dealerships later this fall with a... 
Most electric vehicles don't have multi-speed transmissions—and don't need them. Multi gears may even hurt efficiency, in fact. But that hasn't stopped Honda from experimenting with a manual transmission for electric cars. The automaker is currently testing a manual gearbox—complete with a clutch pedal—for EVs, an engineer told... 
Nissan is recalling certain Leaf electric vehicles due to a risk of batteries overheating and catching fire while fast charging. Owners are advised not to fast charge their vehicles until recall work is completed. The recall includes 23,887 Leaf hatchbacks from model years 2019 and 2020, but just 1% are estimated to have the defect, according to... 
General Motors on Tuesday filled in some details on plans to use cost-cutting lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells in future EVs. Now it has a number for the level of cost-cutting that's potentially gone into the next Bolt EV. As reported by InsideEVs, GM executives said at an investor conference that LFP cells would combine with other... 
Uber is looking to increase utilization of EVs for its ride-sharing service, in part by updating its app to help get riders matched with EV drivers more easily. That starts with making the Uber Green option all-electric—in some cities, at least. Uber Green currently includes both EVs and hybrids, but Uber announced Tuesday that it had enough... 
The Tesla Cybertruck's been turned into a police car The Irvine Police Department took delivery of its police-spec Cybertruck The conversion to police spec was handled by UP.FIT The world hasn't gotten quite bad enough for the emergence of RoboCop, but the first police-spec Cybertruck has reported for duty in California. In July the Irvine Police... 
Nissan's taking a 25% stake in ChargeScape ChargeScape is a vehicle-to-grid joint venture formed by BMW, Ford, Honda, and now Nissan Nissan has a vision for the "fuel station of the future" where EVs would double as energy-storage units Nissan on Monday announced that it will join ChargeScape, the vehicle-to-grid joint venture formed in 2023 by...