Review: 2024 Audi Q8 E-Tron feels friskier, goes farther

2024 Audi SQ8 E-Tron SUVThe Audi E-Tron SUV and Sportback were among the first fully electric SUVs of their kind. Now they're changing with the landscape—and it’s for the better. Just a week ago we were able to drive some of the revamped model line, renamed the 2024 Audi Q8 E-Tron SUV and Sportback, with a fitting backdrop: one of the newest, most dynamic...

Why might the manual gearbox return in some performance EVs?

2019 Hyundai Veloster N - Best Car To Buy 2020With a handful of exceptions, most electric vehicles don't have (or need) multi-speed transmissions. According to some well-respected EV engineers and executives, they may even detract from performance. As such, a performance EV is an odd place to see a manual gearbox. Yet a couple of experiments have cropped up recently, suggesting automakers are...

Ford F-150 Lightning: Will 40% above original price short out demand?

2022 Ford F-150 Lightning ProFord earlier this week raised the price of the base Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup by thousands—for the third time in four months. Just nine months since first deliveries, that puts the base price of the 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning nearly 40% higher than the original base price for the 2022 model-year electric truck—$57,869, versus...

Ford F-150 Lightning: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2023 finalist

2023 Ford F-150 LightningWith the F-150 Lightning, Ford has revolutionized the pickup truck—by making a fully electric version of its top-selling vehicle. While doing that, and seemingly changing as little as possible about all that already makes the F-150 so desirable, it’s created a more desirable vehicle. That's why even though it isn't the first fully...

Data shows Tesla and Nissan are tops in EV reliability

2022 Tesla Model 3Tesla and Nissan currently top Consumer Reports' rankings for most-reliable EVs, although survey data still indicates EVs generally have more problems than other vehicle types. The Tesla Model 3 is now the second most reliable new EV available, according to CR. It was topped only by the Kia EV6, but because the Kia was new for the 2022 model year...

Toyota starts to see how its EVs can aid the power grid

2023 Toyota bZ4X to be used in V2G pilot project with utility OncorToyota is the latest automaker to work with an electrical utility on ways to use EVs to aid the grid. The automaker on Thursday announced a pilot project with Texas-based utility Oncor for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, which allows EVs to discharge power back into the grid. Other automakers and utilities have already expressed interest in V2G...