With President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday, time is nearly up to get your purchase paperwork completed for a new EV or plug-in hybrid and still earn the federal tax credit. While the revamped EV tax credit contained in the bill includes many top-level provisions that are likely to set the supply chain up for more...
Foxconn will manufacture self-driving electric tractors for startup Monarch Tractor at the same Ohio factory where it plans to assemble EVs for startups Fisker and Lordstown. California-based Monarch announced completion of a contract-manufacturing agreement with Foxconn last week. Production of the Monarch Mk-V tractor is scheduled to begin at...
Polestar this morning announced plans to put an electric roadster, called the Polestar 6, into production—with a market arrival in 2026. The Polestar 6 is expected to very closely follow the O2 electric roadster concept first shown in Los Angeles this March. The hardtop convertible will be built on Polestar’s own aluminum platform and...
Owners of battery-powered cars sometimes struggle to refuel on longer trips because public chargers don’t work or malfunction while cars are plugged in.
We look at the lowest-priced U.S. EVs. An industry group drops its lawsuit over tighter diesel tailpipe rules. How much better for emissions are electric pickups? And a Chinese automaker claims to have the world’s fastest-charging mass-production EV. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Short supply and strong demand, supply-chain...
A lawsuit from an industry group, challenging California’s Omnibus standard for heavy-duty trucks and vans aimed at dramatically cutting emissions, was dropped last week. The challenge came from the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA), an industry group representing a long list of vehicle makers, including Ford, GM, Honda...
Electric pickup trucks have a lower carbon footprint than the average gasoline or diesel truck anywhere in the United States, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) said in the latest update of its ongoing EV emissions analysis. While EVs have no "tailpipe" emissions, the grid electricity used to charge them can be a source of carbon emissions...
Chinese automaker Xpeng claims its new G9 flagship SUV will be the world's fastest-charging mass-produced EV, but it's unclear if it might eventually be sold in the United States. Scheduled to launch in China in September, the five-seat G9 will be able to add up to 124 miles of range in just five minutes, Xpeng said Thursday in a press release...
Which super-efficient EV has gone Stealth? Who called Tesla’s Full Self-Driving irresponsible this week? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending August 12, 2022. We paid a whole lot of attention to the $7,500 EV tax credit, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, as it...
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