A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing projects are taking very different approaches to extracting the vital raw material. Some might not be very green.
Buying an electric car can be exciting and bewildering. Consider what kind of car you want and need and where you will charge.
Fueled with money from Wall Street and local officials, automakers plan to build eight million electric cars a year there, more than Europe and North America combined.
The automaker should be able to win back some customers who drifted to Tesla, and hold onto the Tesla-curious.
The electric-car maker’s performance reflected increasing sales and production around the world.
Arrival, a developer of electric vans and buses, says it has come up with a cheaper way to build vehicles in small factories. But can it deliver on that promise?
The EQS has a range of 770 kilometers or about 480 miles, according to Mercedes. If that figure is confirmed, the EQS would dethrone the Tesla Model S Long Range Plus as the electric car with the longest range.
The president is hoping to make electric vehicles more affordable to turn a niche product into one with mass appeal.
“At the end of the day, it was a bit of fun with the name and the brand,” a Volkswagen spokesman said.
