Which upcoming SUV looks like a sports car? What's happening to hybrid sales as electrics take off? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending Sept. 7, 2018. Friday, we noted the kickoff of National Drive Electric Week, the eighth year that electric car owners and enthusiasts have...
Late Friday evening, Tesla announced an executive reshuffling, after a month or more of chaos within the company. The blog posted to the company's website from CEO Elon Musk Friday announced that the company has appointed Jerome Guillen President of Automotive. Guillen, whom Musk says was a key player in the construction of an additional Model 3...
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The annual National Drive Electric Week will occur this weekend with electric-car rallies and events in at least 300 cities across the U.S. and several more in Canada and New Zealand. The event aims to address one of the biggest challenges in promoting electric cars—known in the electric-car community as getting "butts in seats"—by...
BMW reveals the 2021 X5 plug-in hybrid. A supplier tests a long-range, compact battery in a BMW i3 electric car. We kick off National Drive Electric Week. And General Motors plans to expand Chevrolet Bolt EV sales with more battery production in Michigan. All of this and more on Green Car Reports. The 2021 X5 xDrive45e iPerformance will boast up...
The accounting executive departed weeks after he arrived, and the company’s chief held forth in a webcast punctuated by his apparent puffs on a joint.
Tesla stock fell as much as 9 percent, after an accounting executive departed just weeks after he arrived and the company’s chief held forth in a webcast punctuated by his apparent puffs on a joint.
The head of accounting departed weeks after he arrived, and the company’s chief held forth in a webcast punctuated by his apparent puffs on a joint.
On Friday, BMW revealed the next-generation X5 plug-in hybrid, with significantly more electric range and a 6-cylinder engine replacing the 4-cylinder in the current X5 plug-in hybrid. Based on the new third-generation X5, BMW says theX5 xDrive45e iPerformance will have up to 50 miles of electric range from an expanded battery pack that sits...
Using new battery-pack architecture, BMW battery supplier Lion Smart has crammed tripled the battery capacity into a BMW i3s. Lion Smart's 100-kiloowatt-hour battery gives the little city car a range of 435 miles on a charge, in the same footprint as the original battery pack. Lion Smart has developed a modular battery-pack design that makes...
Not content to merely revive E-Types to their former glory, Jaguar will retrofit them as fully electric machines, but it will be costly: $375,000 or more if you don’t supply the car.
