The first dedicated electric vehicle platform for BMW, called Neue Klasse within the company, won’t arrive until 2025, but it will focus around a size or segment of the market that’s always been very important to the German automaker: the 3-Series. According to BMW CEO Oliver Zipse, in comments made during the company’s...
EV charging stations might become a target for hackers, according to a recent Automotive News report. Software vulnerabilities can leave charging stations open to hacking, according to the report. One example the report occurred earlier this year on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. Three charging stations' screens were hacked to show a...
Lordstown Motors plans to start production of its Endurance electric pickup truck before the end of the year, and is advancing a deal with contract manufacturer Foxconn, but it still needs more cash. Endurance production is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2022, Lordstown said in its first-quarter 2022 financial results report. That's...
California dives deeper into bidirectional charging. Bollinger announces how its electric trucks will be made. We take a look back at a Nissan electric vehicle that could have been more than a point on would-be EV history. And might EVs go without brakes as we know them in the future? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. While some of us have...
Bollinger Motors’ lineup of commercial electric trucks has a contract manufacturer: Roush Industries. The companies announced Monday that Roush will assemble Bollinger’s lineup of Class 3 through Class 6 electric trucks at a scalable facility in Livonia, Michigan. The arrangement will include platforms and chassis cabs, and Bollinger...
A prototype from Stellantis’ DS Automobiles aims for a future in which brake dust and brake-pad replacements might be a thing of the past—looking to regenerative braking as the sole method for braking vehicles. Regenerative braking, which turns EVs’ motor systems into generators when needed to slow the vehicle, is already used to...
California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is expanding public testing of bidirectional EV charging with three new pilot programs encompassing up to 1,000 residential electricity customers and hundreds of commercial customers. Each program will offer incentives to customers for participation, with "additional benefits" for those in...
While we widely think of the General Motors EV1—or its preceding Impact concept car—as starting the era of the electric car. But there were others in that era, that followed a similar formula and might have potentially come to market earlier. One of them came from Nissan. As recently discussed by Japanese Nostalgic Car (via Hemmings)...
Which big automaker confirmed an 800-volt EV architecture in the works? How much does the F-150 Lightning’s home-backup system cost? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending May 6, 2022. This week we brought you a couple of first drives, broke some technical news, and served...
A standard 120-volt outlet in your garage can do the job, if slowly. Anything more may require an electrician and a steeper price tag.
