Fisker on Tuesday announced Wallbox as its official partner for home charging equipment. The two companies will start by offering Fisker Ocean electric SUV owners Wallbox home chargers for purchase through the Fisker website in the United States, Canada, and Europe, Fisker said in a press release. Wallbox will market its Pulsar Plus charger to... Fisker partners with Wallbox for home-charging ecosystem
Fisker on Tuesday announced Wallbox as its official partner for home charging equipment. The two companies will start by offering Fisker Ocean electric SUV owners Wallbox home chargers for purchase through the Fisker website in the United States, Canada, and Europe, Fisker said in a press release. Wallbox will market its Pulsar Plus charger to... 
German startup Sono Motors plans to launch the Sion solar-assisted electric car, but it's also looking at commercial-vehicle applications for its solar tech. Sono demonstrated several such upfits at the 2022 IAA Transportation Show in Hannover, Germany, that the company claims can improve the efficiency of buses and refrigerated trucks. Sono plans... 
Chevrolet won't follow sibling General Motors brands Buick and Cadillac in offering buyouts to dealerships that don't want to sell electric vehicles, a GM executive said in a recent interview with The Verge. In fact, the dealerships that take buyouts for their Buick and Cadillac franchises could end up selling Chevys exclusively, GM global vice... 
Volkswagen unveiled an ID.Buzz paramedics' van at the 2022 IAA Transportation commercial vehicle show in Hannover, Germany, showing the upfit potential of the new electric van for government fleets and businesses. VW didn't offer much detail on the ID.Buzz emergency vehicle, only noting that it was built in collaboration with German upfitter... 
A new type of sensor could improve the accuracy of EV range estimates, which could effectively unlock more range for drivers, IEEE Spectrum reports. Scientists in Japan are experimenting with diamond quantum sensors that can help improve battery-monitoring accuracy a hundredfold, addressing an issue with current battery-monitoring sensors. Average... 
The 2023 Kia Sorento Hybrid enters the new model with what Kia calls an "optimized" trim-level lineup that effectively gives the crossover SUV a roughly $2,500 price bump. That "optimization" included the discontinuation of the base Sorento Hybrid S trim level, which started at $35,345 (with destination) for 2022. That leaves the front-wheel drive... 
To make tire production more sustainable, Bridgestone is turning to a desert shrub called guayule as a source of natural rubber. Native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, guayule is a heat-tolerant source of natural rubber that can be used to make tires, Bridgestone said in a recent press release. Natural rubber can be... 
Wind-tunnel testing has proven that the Lightyear 0 is the most aerodynamic production car in the world, Lightyear claims. Testing conducted at the FKFS wind tunnels in Stuttgart, Germany, under WLTP protocols confirmed a 0.175 coefficient of drag (Cd) for the solar-assisted electric car, Lightyear said Thursday in a press release. That figure... 
Michigan-based startup Our Next Energy (ONE) this week unveiled a prismatic anode-free battery cell it claims will lay the foundation for 600-mile EVs. The prototype cell will be integrated into a BMW iX prototype later this year as part of a dual-chemistry battery pack. ONE said in a press release that it's aiming for a volume-produced version of... 
During its annual dealership meeting in Las Vegas, Ford unveiled new rules for selling EVs under its Model E business unit that could put an end to markups and haggling—although they require significant upfront investment by dealers. Ford earlier this year split itself into three business units, with Model E focused on electric passenger... 
Tesla needs a more affordable model, an executive said at a recent invite-only investor conference. But it's unclear if that will be in the form of the much-discussed $25,000 Tesla or something different. Martin Viecha, the automaker's head of investor relations, spoke at the invite-only Goldman Sachs tech conference in San Francisco Monday... 
Honda's electrification push won't be limited to cars. The company on Tuesday announced that it will launch 10 electric motorcycles globally by 2025, and make its motorcycle lineup carbon neutral by 2040. Honda already sells a line of small scooters aimed at fleet operators, and that are already used by the Japanese and Vietnamese postal services... 
Interest in purchasing an EV is high among communities of color, which are also more burdened by air pollution than white communities. Yet significant barriers exist to greater EV adoption, according to a new study from Consumer Reports, EVNoire, GreenLatinos, and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Communities of color are most harmed by... 
Nissan Leaf batteries are lasting a long time, according to an executive with the automaker, and that may push mass reuse and recycling further into the future. "Almost all of the batteries we've made are still in cars," Nissan UK marketing director Nic Thomas said last month in an interview with Forbes (via Charged EVs). Recall that Nissan was... 
Volkswagen has turned the ID.4 electric crossover into a rugged off-roader. Debuting at the ID.Treffen event in Locarno, Switzerland, the VW ID.Xtreme concept applies a suspension lift, tougher styling, and more power to the mass-market EV. The ID.Xtreme concept is based on the ID.4 GTX, a version of the all-wheel-drive ID.4 that isn't sold in the... 
Two plug-in models will be among the first to get an updated version of Ford's Bluecruise hands-free driver-assist system when it launches this fall. Adding an automated lane-change feature and other updates, the new version is dubbed Bluecruise 1.2 and will launch on the 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E, the automaker confirmed Friday. Lincoln will get... 
The Nissan Leaf will finally get bidirectional charging in the United States, and it won't affect the EV's warranty, Nissan confirmed this past week. Leaf models have for years had the hardware for bidirectional charging, which allows electric cars to discharge stored energy from their battery packs. And while Nissan has allowed and enabled the... 
There's a new commercial EV startup on the block. It's called Harbinger, and claims to have an EV platform for medium-duty trucks that will erase the up-front cost premium over current gasoline and diesel trucks. The platform incorporates an "eAxle" that combines the motor, gearbox, and inverter in one unit, a modular battery pack, and streamlined... 
Mullen Automotive on Thursday announced acquisition of a majority stake in Bollinger Motors, reviving plans to bring the latter's B1 electric SUV and B2 electric pickup truck into production. Founded in 2015, Bollinger initially planned the B1 and B2 as no frills off-roaders aimed at outdoor enthusiasts. It revealed production-intent versions of...