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...

Real-world highway range: UK test lauds Kia Niro EV, Tesla Model 3

2019 Kia Niro EVMost of today’s electric vehicles are far from range-anxiety-inducing. Their suggested charging stops and helpful range meters help keep you well short of the red zone. But sometimes, maybe once or twice when the unexpected happens, you may find your vehicle—as well as your propensity for range anxiety—put to the test. Which EVs...

Karma plans US-built all-electric pickup and SUV

Karma SC2, 2019 LA Auto ShowFully electric pickups are suddenly all the rage—or, we should say, the possibility of them, as none of them have actually arrived. Monday, news broke of another electric truck potentially in the works—this one from California-based, Chinese-funded Karma Automotive. According to a Bloomberg report, directly citing Karma’s COO...