Electric payload: These 5 trucks will change America

Tesla CybertruckThe age of the electric pickup truck has (almost) arrived, and with it the promise of all of the torque and none of the tailpipe emissions. Newcomers including Rivian, Bollinger, and Tesla are launching electric pickup trucks in the next few years. And America’s Big Three won’t cede market share on a segment they’ve dominated for...

UPS turns to Arrival for some very stylish electric delivery vans

Arrival electric delivery van for UPSAnother relatively new electric-vehicle company has scored a major deal to electrify some of the world’s delivery fleets. The shipping and logistics company UPS announced last week that it’s investing in the UK commercial electric-vehicle maker Arrival—and ordering 10,000 electric delivery vehicles from the company. With the...

Gasoline direct injection tech might not be worth it, study suggests

Exhaust emissions from tailpipe [photo: Simone Ramella, 2005, used under Creative Commons 2.0]While significant sooty black deposits—and even, occasionally, visible puffs coming from the tailpipe—used to be a sign your gasoline car needed a tune-up, they’re a normal fact of life with many newer cars that are supposedly cleaner-burning. What’s the disconnect? While the modern gasoline direct-injection technologies...