Fully electric full-size pickups are one of the next big growth areas in the automotive market, for individuals and fleets alike. With a solution from the supplier and mobility technology company Magna, automakers might be able to produce more electric trucks—or a wider range of them—sooner. Called eBeam, and billed as “a... Magna’s eBeam can help automakers turn any truck electric
Fully electric full-size pickups are one of the next big growth areas in the automotive market, for individuals and fleets alike. With a solution from the supplier and mobility technology company Magna, automakers might be able to produce more electric trucks—or a wider range of them—sooner. Called eBeam, and billed as “a... 
Volkswagen is just starting to ramp up production of electric cars based on its MEB platform, but the automaker is already thinking of how to recycle battery packs once those vehicles have reached the end of their lifecycles. VW announced on Tuesday that it will scale up a process for recovering raw materials from used EV batteries. The automaker... 
Development of an affordable Tesla electric car will take place in China, the head of the company's Chinese operations confirmed in an interview with state media. An entry-level Tesla will be designed at a new R&D center currently under construction in Shanghai, Tesla China president Tom Zhu said in the interview with Xinhua Net, one of... 
Porsche Taycans weren’t born to be garage queens. Although they can definitely do track time and a pulse-quickening weekend drive, they can handle all the daily driving in between. Add the Cross Turismo—that’s the Taycan wagon, as some will see it, although the idea even predates the Taycan name—and the realm of possibility... 
The electric car revealed by Hyundai early Tuesday morning is shaping up to one of the most important new models in the South Korean company’s 45 years of making cars. The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the first of many models to be built on Hyundai’s E-GMP dedicated EV platform. It’s also the first model to be released as part of... 
The glut of EV startups is allowing car designers to do some very exciting work. While mainstream automakers churn out endless crossovers with the same predictable truck-inspired styling, Alpha Motors' idea of a "crossover" looks more like a vintage rally car than a modern EV. Unveiled earlier this month, the Alpha Motors Jax is the latest in a... 
Hyundai has released a glimpse inside its Ioniq 5 electric vehicle, ahead of a February 23 premiere of this likely rival to the Ford Mustang Mach-E and Tesla Model Y. The Ioniq 5’s cabin will use a combination of sustainable surfaces, including eco-processed leather treated with flax oil, rapeseed-based bio paint, PET-based woven materials... 
Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles produce only water vapor as emissions—water that could in theory be filtered and made potable. While that’s been the memorable party-trick of fuel-cell presentations over many years—well, that and some creative billboards—the lack of combustion gases being carried through the tailpipe creates a... 
Although true flywheel-based kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) never quite caught on in racing or in production hybrids, a company in Israel has been working on putting the technology to use where it could make a big difference: EV fast-charging stations. The flywheels Chakratec uses for charging stations weigh about 330 pounds each and... 
While he's the face of the electric-car maker today, Elon Musk did not start Tesla. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were co-founders of Tesla, aiming to produce what became the Tesla Roadster. They attracted investment from Musk, who was granted a chairman of the board position with his investment in 2004, during Tesla's first funding round...