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During the January 2021 Consumer Electronics Show, GM introduced BrightDrop, a new arm of General Motors that will “offer an ecosystem of electric first-to-last-mile products…
BY PHIL ROYLE
On Jan. 8, 2021, General Motors unveiled its new corporate logo. Gone is the formal stern, dark blue all-caps “GM” that has been the official corporate logo for decades…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Hyundai and Apple are in talks. About what? The details are murky at best. But from what can be gleaned, it’s likely to do with autonomous driving or EV battery technology. Or both. Or Neither…
BY PHIL ROYLE
2021, you hope, will be better than 2020. That said, in the world of automotive electrification, 2020 was a spectacular year…
BY PHIL ROYLE
About one year ago, utterly clueless of what the year held in store, I helped launch this website. The goal was twofold…
BY PHIL ROYLE
The Watt Car is more than a year old now, and aside from the unrelenting bad news of COVID-19, the other topic getting a lot of coverage this year is vehicle electrification…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Ever since 2014, there has been internet chatter about a possible “Apple Car” and multiple reports about the company’s “Project Titan”…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Aptera is one of those companies that has reinvented itself over the years as the fortunes and favor toward EVs has ebbed and flowed…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Will Mazda’s incremental electrification approach be too-little, too-late?
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
In response to a reporter question at the Axel Springer award ceremony in Berlin, Germany, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he would be open to merger discussions…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Toyota, the undisputed leader in hybrid technology, has been one of the biggest and most vocal holdouts against full battery electrics, instead using misleading terminology to describe its hybrids…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
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
The term “iconic” is thrown around rather loosely in describing cars. But if there’s one brand and model deserving of it, it’s the Jeep Wrangler…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
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
