Lucid Motors hires away Tesla manufacturing chief

Lucid AIrLucid Motors announced on Monday that it has hired Tesla's vice president of manufacturing, Peter Hochholdinger, to head up its own manufacturing operations. Lucid is a fellow Silicon Valley Tesla competitor, with plans to build a luxury sedan with up to 400 miles of range an up to 1,000 horsepower. One Tesla-owning Green Car Reports contributor...

Tesla delivers a record number of cars for Q2

2017 Tesla Model 3, in photo tweeted by Elon Musk on July 9, 2017Tesla posted record deliveries and production in the second quarter of 2019, according to totals that the company released Tuesday afternoon. It was a key quarter for observers, after the company's deliveries lagged in the first quarter as it began exporting its most popular Model 3 and cited delivery snags, particularly in Europe as the reason...

Electric Volkswagen Type 20 Microbus concept ties the past to the future

Volkswagen Type 20 Microbus conceptGiven the enthusiastic reception lavished on Volkswagen’s production-bound ID Buzz concept—that’s the 2022 revival of the Microbus, in all-electric form—the automaker’s transformation can’t come soon enough. So today as part of the dedication of a Silicon Valley facility focused on the future, Volkswagen decided...

New vehicles in Britain could go all plug-in by 2035

Ubitricity electric-car charging cordAs more governments sign on to ban internal combustion cars going forward, some are also pulling forward the dates they plan to implement those bans. Last week, Britain, which already had a ban on new gas and diesel vehicles without plug-in capability on the books starting in 2040, tightened its anti-global warming rules with a new measure that...