Tesla tunes the Model S Plaid with a Track Mode. Apartment-building charging could be more feasible with peak-demand smarts. We look at why nearly every vehicle marker is so optimistic about electric last-mile delivery vans. And is a solid-state battery pack bound for the next Toyota Prius? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Toyota is...
Last-mile delivery vans are, increasingly, how we shop, how we get home services, and even how we get food delivered. And as the fleet of last-mile vans expands to meet this need, it’s largely going electric. The wake-up call for how quickly this change might sweep the industry came in 2019, when Amazon announced plans to buy 100,000...
Tesla on Thursday announced a Track Mode for the Model S Plaid that adds torque vectoring, improved cooling, and more aggressive suspension settings. Rolling out to cars in North America this week, Track Mode was developed to aid the Model S in achieving its lap record for production cars at Germany's Nürburgring, Tesla said in a blog post...
North Carolina-based Atom Power is launching a new EV charging station that could make managing electricity costs easier at apartments and condos. The Atom Power Purpl charges directly from a circuit breaker, so no electronics are contained in the unit itself, the company explained last month in a press release. That also enables an energy...
Algunas de las tendencias del año ya las conoces: el metaverso, el hogar inteligente y los autos eléctricos. ¿Qué valdrá la pena comprar y qué no? Como cada año, echamos un vistazo al futuro.
Toyota's planned solid-state batteries will debut not in an EV, but in an upcoming hybrid, an executive said in a recent interview with Autoline. The batteries, which are on track for commercialization by 2025, will appear in hybrids first because that allows for a smaller battery pack that's less cost-sensitive, Toyota chief scientist Gill Pratt...
Which long awaited retro-electric van got a reveal date? Which automaker suggested that batteries might be air-cooled in the future? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending January 7, 2022. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was the headliner of this week’s news, and while...
The yawning disparity between the performance of the electric car company and established automakers last year reflects the technological change roiling the industry.
VinFast is moving fast to present a whole family of EVs. Goodyear goes sustainable with its tire ingredients. And Chrysler could reboot the brand with its Airflow EV concept. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The leading edge of Stellantis’ electric vehicle push is coming from a brand that appeared on the verge of...
Pontiac. Mercury. Oldsmobile. It seemed that Chrysler was headed for the same fate as these other ill-fated legacy American brands, but the company with the winged logo is looking to take flight again as the electric vehicle emissary for Stellantis. And that has given Chrysler new life. At the 2022 Consumer Electronics Showcase, Chrysler unveiled...
