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Revival of the Lotus brand is only just accelerating, the Eletre SUV has begun production and first customers are impatiently waiting for their cars. Lotus Evija became the most powerful production car in the world with its 2,011hp powertrain and...

Vertical integration is the buzzword of today's automotive industry. The days of outsourcing are clearly over with every major automaker rushing to take control over their supply chains. Last month Nio set up a battery subsidiary and now Xpeng...

Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, was very specific this week when he announced that the latest electric cars from Ford take 40 percent less labor than it takes to produce their gasoline-powered equivalents. He credited the work savings on a much...

Smart #1 has been unveiled earlier this year and so far it received a very warm welcome, its Launch Edition has been sold out on the spot with deliveries not starting until early next year. In final stages of launch preparations for the EU market,...

According to the latest study from BloombergNEF, the US is the world’s greatest polluter when it comes to transport emissions - 1.64 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide is expected to be produced by vehicles in North America this year alone. Until now,...

Izera was founded in 2020 and is fully backed by the Polish government through the ElectroMobility Poland, a national electric car brand. The company revealed two vehicles so far, the Z100 SUV and T100 hatchback. Although the latter borrows its name...

The US Government has just committed the country to a very ambitious plan - to stop selling gas and diesel powered commercial vehicles by 2040. That means in just over 17 years there will be no new school bus, truck, delivery van or a tractor...

The all-electric Formula E is getting ready for its upcoming Season 9, and as such has announced some updates to its sporting regulations today. That, and a huge development in charging. A new "Attack Charge", to be introduced "at select races...

Ken Block’s first ever Elecrikhana clocked up some serious views - nearly 4.5 millions and still counting. By all means it was the probably most significant show produced by Ken Block and his team, not only it was set in the one and only Las Vegas,...

Keeping up with the progress of some of the EV companies can be tricky. While we may be used to slow developments from the US and European automakers, the Chinese market seems to be moving at a much faster pace. And then, there is VinFast from...

Since the start of this year, Tesla has been slowly expanding its program to give Supercharger access to non-Tesla EVs. This week, Tesla is opening up its chargers in Italy. From now on, 18 Supercharger stations in the country can be used by...

In less than two weeks Tesla will deliver the first Semi to Pepsi at an official event at the Giga Nevada. As the preparations for first deliveries advance, the company updated its Tesla app with detailed images of Semi although for now those images...

Buick is launching its all-electric midsize SUV Electra in China and the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the photos and specifications of the upcoming vehicle. The MIIT does it so the public can actually comment on...

Google Maps has been working with EV charging station partners in the US and the UK for the past three years. The company is now expanding the service to the majority of countries is covers and comes with helpful filters for the charging speeds, and...

Fisker's Ocean SUV has now reached an important milestone: the official start of production. This will take place at Magna Steyr's carbon-neutral factory in Graz, Austria, and it's on schedule, coming after just two years of...

This has to be a world’s first - Mercedes is cutting prices of its cars due to low sales numbers. The Chinese customers are having the best Black Friday ever with some models of EQE and EQS getting substantial price reductions. Mercedes went...

The Geely-Daimler owned Smart is on a roll. The Smart #1 was only just unveiled with the majority of markets only to receive deliveries at the beginning of next year and the company already has a second model coming. Thanks to the Chinese vehicle...

Waymo and Zeekr have been working together on a dedicated driverless vehicle based on the platform used in the Zeekr 001. Dubbed Zeekr M-Vision the concept certain embodies some pretty cool ideas. The SEA-M platform used in the M-Vision was...

At the 2022 Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota introduced its new bZ Compact SUV Concept, which gives us another sneak peek into the future of the Beyond Zero BEV lineup. The overall design language is retained, but Toyota made the concept a bit more...

Stellantis believes the tide is turning in North America and the customers do want a smaller car, especially an electric one. The company believes it can succeed where Smart failed miserably. Maybe Smart was just a tad too much - or rather, too...