Rivian electric trucks’ battery packs more energy into less space

Rivian electric car platformUntil the infrastructure can catch up—and well beyond then, if you’re talking about go-anywhere electric trucks like those from Rivian—big batteries will be a necessity for getting more people switching to EVs. Rivian has accepted that from the start with its R1T electric pickup and R1S electric SUV, with battery packs that start...

Downtown Detroit, a charging desert, finally gets DC fast chargers

General Motors Renaissance Center in Detroit, MichiganThe home base for the U.S. auto industry has long been downtown Detroit. And as much as that industry has wanted to talk the talk about electrification the past several year, it hasn’t walked the walk in its home turf. Detroit almost made it to the end of the decade without a single DC fast charger. Until recently—like just three...

Mercedes-Benz EQC electric SUV delayed again for U.S.—now to 2021

2020 Mercedes-Benz EQC Edition 1886The top-selling luxury-vehicle brand in the U.S. now isn’t likely to have a fully electric vehicle back in its American lineup until 2021. According to Bloomberg, Daimler AG revealed the delay in an emailed statement to dealers—and that it made the design as a strategic one, to focus on growing demand for it in Europe. Now the due date...

Xpeng and Nio team up for charging, amid China EV sales slump

2018 Xpeng G3Before Tesla actually entered China, the electric automaker Nio had built a reputation as the Tesla of China, for good reason: It built an extensive network of DC fast chargers and energy services—to the degree that, just as with Tesla and its Supercharger network, the company seemed to be building something that other automakers might be...