Chevy Corvette engineers moved to EV team at GM

2020 Chevrolet CorvetteGeneral Motors is moving engineers from its Chevrolet Corvette development team to its electric-vehicle program, InsideEVs reported Thursday. Specifically, GM moved the engineers from its Global Products Programs group to the Autonomous and Electric Vehicles group, according to the report. The current head of the Corvette team, Tadge Juechter...

Matthew Dear song remixes Ford Mustang Mach-E electric car sounds

Musician Matthew Dear, with the Ford Mustang Mach-EThere are many, many songs that mention one of the icons of gasoline-swilling, open-road Americana: the Ford Mustang. Meanwhile, there are very few electric Ford Mustangs in the world, and even fewer songs about electric Ford Mustangs. Leave it to Ford to change those things—both of them. Later this year, the start of deliveries of the Ford...

India’s Mahindra announces it will use REE platform for commercial EVs

REE modular EV platformIndian automaker Mahindra plans to launch commercial electric vehicles using a platform from Israeli startup REE Automotive, the two companies announced via press release Wednesday. REE has developed a skateboard EV platform with virtually all mechanical equipment, apart from the battery pack and its associated cooling and power distribution...

Kia Sorento Plug-In Hybrid detailed for Europe, arriving in early 2021

2021 Kia Sorento Plug-In HybridThe Kia Sorento crossover is getting a plug-in hybrid powertrain option for the first time. Kia released specifications for European-market models Wednesday, but hasn't said whether it will offer the Sorento Plug-In Hybrid in the United States. The powertrain consists of a 1.6-liter turbocharged gasoline 4-cylinder engine and 6-speed automatic...