2017 Hyundai Ioniq Electric: first drive review of 124-mile electric car

2017 Hyundai Ioniq Electric - frame from video road testFor the first six years of electric cars, from 2011 to 2016, we've had a variety of mass-priced cars with ranges of 62 to 107 miles. This year, in 2017, we got the Chevy Bolt EV, at 238 miles. But there's a new competitor as well. This is the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq Electric. DON'T MISS: 2017 Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid video drive review It's one of three...

Lucid Air luxury electric car: Bloomberg gets brief ride

Lucid AirWhen it comes to luxury electric-car startups, hype is the name of the game. Lucid Motors unveiled its Air luxury sedan in December, promising a range of up to 400 miles, power of 1,000 horsepower, and cutting-edge technology. But very few people outside the company have gotten more than a glimpse at what, on paper, looks like a Tesla-rivaling...

Chevy Bolt EV: 800-mile trip in 238-mile electric car shows challenges remain

Owner Dawn Hall before 800-mile road trip in 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric carWith about twice the range of any non-Tesla electric car, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV has generated a great deal of excitement and won numerous awards over the last year. In combination with a nascent DC fast-charging infrastructure, it offers the possibility of much longer road trips powered solely by grid electricity. One early Bolt EV owner is...

All-electric Bentley convertible concept shown at Geneva

Bentley EXP 12 Speed 6e concept, 2017 Geneva auto showThe Volkswagen Group can't seem to get enough luxury electric cars. The Audi e-tron SUV and Porsche Mission E sedan will go into production over the next few years, with an electric version of the VW Phaeton sedan expected as well. Following that up, at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show Volkswagen possession Bentley showed an all-electric concept car...

Honda: hybrids, plug-ins, fuel cells to be two-thirds of Europe sales by 2025

2016 Honda CR-Z Final Label (Japanese spec)Honda's green-car strategy for the next decade or so appears to be coming into greater focus. In place of its previous mild hybrids, the Japanese automaker is planning to produce much higher volumes of its two-motor hybrid powertrain, as seen first in the Accord Hybrid mid-size sedan. It also launched the Clarity Fuel Cell sedan last year, and...

China to replace 70,000 gasoline cabs with electric cars

BYD e6 electric taxi in service in Shenzhen, ChinaChina's latest effort to promote electric cars focuses on taxis in its capital city of Beijing. The country that is now the world's largest new-car market already offers generous purchase incentives for electric cars bought by individuals. Now the city also plans to replace its entire fleet of gasoline taxis with electric cars. DON'T MISS...

Electric-car winds in China shift again: goals to be cut after sales fall?

BYD Yuan. Photo by Indian Autos Blog.Eight weeks ago, China seemed to be preparing to loosen its famously strict car-manufacturing rules for foreign makers. The government leaders who direct economic policy had seemingly concluded that Chinese makers could not succeed in selling cars in Europe and North America. So the country proposed to relax joint-venture rules for so-called New...