Amazon will buy 1,800 Mercedes electric vans for Europe

Mercedes-Benz eSprinter Amazon delivery vanAmazon will buy more than 1,800 Mercedes-Benz electric vans for use in Europe, the two companies announced Friday. The order includes 600 medium-size eVito vans and more than 1,200 larger eSprinter vans, Mercedes said. Both models are electric versions of existing internal-combustion vans (which Amazon has also bought). Mercedes has not announced...

Used BMW i3 police cars offered up in LA: Electric-car deal or not?

Los Angeles takes delivery of BMW i3 BEVs for LAPD use  -  2016It’s been a long time since Los Angeles has provided any update on its push to use more electric cars—including 200 BMW i3 EVs—in its police fleets. Now many of them have ended up listed at New Century BMW, a dealership in Alhambra, in the greater Los Angeles area, as first reported last week by The Current Review. New Century...

Matthew Dear song remixes Ford Mustang Mach-E electric car sounds

Musician Matthew Dear, with the Ford Mustang Mach-EThere are many, many songs that mention one of the icons of gasoline-swilling, open-road Americana: the Ford Mustang. Meanwhile, there are very few electric Ford Mustangs in the world, and even fewer songs about electric Ford Mustangs. Leave it to Ford to change those things—both of them. Later this year, the start of deliveries of the Ford...