2025 Genesis GV60 gets less expensive base AWD model

2025 Genesis GV60The 2025 Genesis GV60 receives minor changes and a minor price increase for its third model year on sale in the U.S., Genesis announced last week. Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are now available, along with a new Capri Blue exterior paint color. The 19-inch-wheel option for all-wheel-drive models has also been broken out into its own…

Super-flat REE skateboard EV platform will get suspension help from KYB

REE modular EV platformREE Automotive will get some help from a Tier 1 automotive supplier as it continues to push a skateboard EV platform toward production. The Israeli startup has arranged a partnership with KYB, a company that supplies suspension systems to automakers. KYB will apply its suspension expertise to REE’s skateboard platform, the companies said in a…

Connecticut aiming to revise EV incentive for low-income households

2017 Volkswagen e-Golf, first drive, New York City, April 2017The incentives that many states have provided to plug-in vehicle buyers have for the most part been a success; though they’ve also in many cases been a learning experience Connecticut is a good example, and the state is in the middle of a revamp of its program, called the Connecticut Hydrogen and Electric Automobile Purchase Rebate (CHEAPR)…

EVgo launches first public 350-kw fast charger

EVgo 350-kw DC fast-charge station, Baker, Calif. The desert is full of apparitions. The latest is a high-powered DC fast charger for electric cars that don’t yet exist. This apparition is an EVgo charging station in Baker, California, the “Gateway to Death Valley” on Interstate 40, halfway between L.A. and Las Vegas, installed last week. DON’T MISS: Porsche already has a prototype that will…

Five electric cars tested in cold Norwegian winter: how did they do?

Winter testing of electric cars in Norway by the Norwegian EV Association (Norsk Elbilforening)Drivers in the parts of North America that get winter weather are deeply familiar with snow-clogged wheel wells, iced-in wipers, and weak batteries, to list just a few. Our counterparts in Norway have exactly the same challenges in winter—but they’re far further along in adopting plug-in electric cars, to slash the carbon footprint of the…

Mercedes, Smart, Daimler trucks update electric-car, electrification plans

Mercedes-Benz GLC F-CellMercedes-Benz has already laid out its plans for a portfolio of electric and electrified vehicles, and now parent company Daimler has announced further strategy refinements for Mercedes-Benz and its other brands. The Smart brand will become all-electric, it said, while its commercial truck operations will continue to add electrified powertrains to…

Tesla Autopilot features edge closer to self-driving in 3 to 6 months

Tesla Enhanced AutopilotLast year, after Tesla updated the radar, camera, and ultrasonic sensors on its electric cars, CEO Elon Musk said the new hardware’s capabilities would lag behind the cars on the street already. Now, Musk has projected that the “Hardware 2.0” cars may surpass the older generation of “Hardware 1.0” vehicles and be “fully self-driving” in 3 to 6…