Campaign pokes fun at sorry state of public charging signage

Bee Charging campaign for more EV charging signageAs electric-car technology matures, and the people driving EVs aren’t all patient, resourceful early-adopter types, the issues that sour people on the electric experience are evolving, too. Today the deal-breaker is increasingly likely to be the lack of charging infrastructure rather than rated range—and the idea of range anxiety is...

Porsche and Boeing developing “premium urban air mobility vehicle”

Porsche Boeing premium urban air mobility vehiclePorsche and Boeing signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the developing of flying cars, the companies announced Thursday. The notion of a "premium personal urban air mobility vehicle" may sound vague, the new joint venture, Aurora Flight Sciences, is tasked with building a "fully electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle," which...

2021 Toyota RAV4 plug-in hybrid confirmed for LA auto show debut

2021 Toyota RAV4 plug-in hybrid  -  teaser photoToyota has made official a possibility that has been recently suggested by execs as a next step, and all but been confirmed by spy shots: that it will make a plug-in hybrid version of the RAV4 hybrid, and soon sell that in the U.S. While Toyota didn’t specify nomenclature—and thus whether it would be called RAV4 Prime, just RAV4...

Lexus teases design of upcoming city-sized electric car

Teaser for Lexus EV concept debuting at 2019 Tokyo Motor ShowLexus has released a teaser shot—2014 and video burst—for a new electric-car concept, due to be revealed later this month at the Tokyo Motor Show. The model, which is expected to be a production-bound small city car based on the Lexus LF-SA concept from 2015, will be what Lexus chief Koji Sato described to Autocar earlier this year as...

Electrify Canada maps out more than 20 places to charge at 350 kw

Electrify Canada fast chargingElectrify America is well-established by now—as it needs to be, as part of Volkswagen’s diesel settlement. Meanwhile, its equivalent organization to the north, Electrify Canada, is a voluntary effort is just getting started—with some very fast 350-kw chargers. Electrify Canada announced Wednesday that it would be installing more...