Formula E completes season with longer range cars, repeat winner

2019 Formula E New York eGrand Prix turn 1 (CREDIT: Formula E Instagram video)Formula E's New York City E-Prix wrapped up on Sunday with a repeat champion, dramatic racing, and actual production cars taking to the track. While pole-sitter Sebastien Buemi ran away with the race for team Nissan e.dams, Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne repeated as season points champion, racing for Sino-French team DS Techeetah, The best Vergne...

VW holds battery suppliers tight amid anticipated shortages

Volkswagen MEB platform architectureVolkswagen is taking new measures to hold its battery suppliers close, as battery suppliers are reportedly still skeptical of whether consumers will buy electric cars in large numbers—and hesitant to make the large investments necessary. So VW is partnering with battery suppliers to provide funding to build and expand battery factories...

Harley-Davidson gives Livewire owners free charging with Electrify America

Harley-Davidson LiveWire charging at Electrify America charging stationHarley-Davidson announced on Thursday that it will provide the equivalent of 500 kilowatt-hours of free charging at Electrify America chargers for customers who buy its new LiveWire electric motorcycle in the first year. Harley has been working on developing the LiveWire since 2014, and it is finally scheduled to go on sale next month for $29,799...

Brake issue is pausing sales of popular Toyota hybrids overseas, not in US

2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid  -  2015 NY Auto ShowA potential manufacturing fault relating to brake hardware has prompted Toyota to conduct an investigation that reaches around the globe. The issue has led to a stop-sale in Australia and New Zealand, among other markets, and affects the hybrid versions of the Toyota RAV4, Camry, Prius, Corolla hatchback, Lexus ES300h, and Lexus UX250h. While the...

Union hack: British company offers electric classic Mini conversion

Classic Mini Cooper electric conversion by SwindThe Mini Cooper SE revealed last week and the planned electric Mini Rocketman city car represent a new push from the official owner of the Mini brand, BMW. While neither of those models has arrived quite yet, the UK-based company electric bicycle company Swind has already started making a limited number of electric conversions of classic Minis for...

Best deals on plug-in, hybrid, and electric cars for July 2019

2017 Toyota Prius Prime test drive, Ojai, California, Sep 2016As tax credits on electric cars wind down, great deals are getting harder to find. Still, our partners at CarsDirect found some deals as low as $199 a month for July in scouring manufacturer programs for deals. Since some electric cars are still sold in small numbers and in limited areas, we've focused our selections on deals on cars that are...