Porsche and Boeing developing “premium urban air mobility vehicle”

Porsche Boeing premium urban air mobility vehiclePorsche and Boeing signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the developing of flying cars, the companies announced Thursday. The notion of a "premium personal urban air mobility vehicle" may sound vague, the new joint venture, Aurora Flight Sciences, is tasked with building a "fully electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle," which...

2021 Toyota RAV4 plug-in hybrid confirmed for LA auto show debut

2021 Toyota RAV4 plug-in hybrid  -  teaser photoToyota has made official a possibility that has been recently suggested by execs as a next step, and all but been confirmed by spy shots: that it will make a plug-in hybrid version of the RAV4 hybrid, and soon sell that in the U.S. While Toyota didn’t specify nomenclature—and thus whether it would be called RAV4 Prime, just RAV4...

Lexus teases design of upcoming city-sized electric car

Teaser for Lexus EV concept debuting at 2019 Tokyo Motor ShowLexus has released a teaser shot—2014 and video burst—for a new electric-car concept, due to be revealed later this month at the Tokyo Motor Show. The model, which is expected to be a production-bound small city car based on the Lexus LF-SA concept from 2015, will be what Lexus chief Koji Sato described to Autocar earlier this year as...

Electrify Canada maps out more than 20 places to charge at 350 kw

Electrify Canada fast chargingElectrify America is well-established by now—as it needs to be, as part of Volkswagen’s diesel settlement. Meanwhile, its equivalent organization to the north, Electrify Canada, is a voluntary effort is just getting started—with some very fast 350-kw chargers. Electrify Canada announced Wednesday that it would be installing more...

Volvo and Geely merging development for engines, still needed in hybrids

2020 Volvo XC40 PHEVVolvo will offload its development of internal combustion engines to a new joint project with parent company Geely, the two companies announced Monday, allowing Volvo's in-house propulsion engineers to concentrate exclusively on electric powertrains. While Volvo says it believes ICEs are here to stay for the foreseeable future, it is in the early...

ID Light feature inside VW ID 3 electric car communicates without clutter

VW ID 3 Light CommunicationWith its first ground-up electric effort, Volkswagen chose to produce a car that is conventionally practical while embracing the high-tech approach taken with many EVs. One of the ID 3's unique features is an intelligent LED-based communication system designed to deliver alerts and status updates in a simple, easily interpreted manner. The system...