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All in electric
Electric cars have gone from fringe novelty to the latest transportation craze seemingly overnight. So the myriad of announcements and releases coming from both startups and established OEMs…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
The Nikola Badger pickup, former Nikola CEO Trevor Milton’s CGI-based troll of the Tesla Cybertruck, has been trolled itself…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Mazda is the beloved underdog of the automotive industry. While other manufacturers have gunned for quantity, Mazda has seemingly been content sporting a lower sales volume…
BY PHIL ROYLE
I’m just going to cut straight to it. The main reason the BMW iX has gotten so much attention over the last week is the presence of its exaggerated interpretation of BMW’s traditional “twin-kidney” grille…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
A few years ago, when a lot of EV models had a sub-100-mile range, the term “compliance cars” was coined to connote a minimum effort on part of the OEMs…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
It may have taken Tesla going from a niche brand to fast-growing global juggernaut, as well as regulations and emissions targets coming fast and furious…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Since the mid-2010s, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has doubled down on its strategy of appealing to enthusiasts with big horsepower…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
General Motors unveiled a 1977 Chevrolet K5 Blazer for the 2020 SEMA 360 virtual event. Like the electrified C10 it showed last year…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
GMC finally (virtually) unveiled the highly anticipated Hummer EV pickup this week. Other than more styling and feature details, a lot of the specs had already been revealed…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
You may have heard about the Apple TV+ series “Long Way Up” starring Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
The announcement came from the Monaco Yacht Club, because where else would you announce the launch of an eccentric new electric boat racing series…
BY BRIAN STARK
It didn’t take long for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) to go on the offensive following California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Executive Order…
BY STEVE THOMPSON
Somewhat unexpectedly to many, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Sept. 23, 2020, banning the sale of new internal-combustion passenger cars by 2035…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Tesla’s highly anticipated “Battery Day” on Sept. 22, 2020, while met with great interest by the company’s and Elon Musk’s die-hard fans, landed with a thud…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Electrified vehicles contesting the challenging Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is not only no joke, it’s becoming commonplace…
BY BRIAN STARK
Did you know that the first Porsche was electric? Looking for more electric vehicle history packaged in brief form? For that, there’s ABB Formula E’s recent video…
BY BRIAN STARK
This week, Ford held a groundbreaking ceremony for an addition to its Rouge assembly complex that will assemble the upcoming all-electric F-150…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
General Motors unveiled the next step in the development of its Ultium powertrain family. This week it showed five drive units powered by three drive motors…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
It’s said that racing begets superior street cars, but rarely do we witness blatantly obvious examples, especially amongst EVs…
BY BRIAN STARK
The Lucid Air reveal on Sept. 9 was simultaneously anti-climactic and astounding. Prototypes of the Air were shown as early as December 2016, and outwardly, little has changed…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
