Truck Stops Want In On Those Sweet EV Roadtrip Dollars For the most part, as long as you have regular access to charging, even just a basic cable plugged into a wall outlet, you can daily an electric vehicle around town without running into many problems. Sure, you can find an old Nissan Leaf with only 50 miles of range left to cover your weekend errands, but even a… Read more…

Ford Stops Work On $3.5 Billion Michigan EV Battery Plant Good morning! It’s Tuesday, September 26, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Toyota Is Way Off Its Own (Very Low) EV Targets Good morning! It’s Friday, September 22, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Hyundai N Are Finally Moving Forward With A Retro-Futuristic EV Sports Car It’s impossible to ignore how much Hyundai’s design team is killing the game right now. The clearly-Giugiaro-inspired throwback designs it is producing are absolutely rad to the max. The Ioniq 5 looks a treat, and that kind of retro 80s-aping design is the next big thing if you ask me. Making a small-ish sport coupe… Read more…

Should I sell my old car for a newer ev? My wife and I make about $35,000/year combined. I am in school full time and work part time, she works part time. Our Only debts are $100/month for her student loans and the car mentioned below at $200/month (we pay a bit above the minimum to pay it down a little faster) I currently have a 2006 Toyota Solara SLE convertible. I have a 3 year loan…

The 2024 VW Tiguan PHEV Promises The Best EV Range On The Market The Tiguan is one of Volkwagen’s best-selling models. Since the crossover hit the market way back in 2007, Volkswagen says more than 7.6 million have been sold around the globe. Those hits should continue with the all new third generation Tiguan. Volkswagen revealed the all new 2024 model, and the big news is that… Read more…

EV Sales Growth In The U.S. Is About To Hit New Highs, Experts Say If you study the macroeconomics of new technology adoption, there is a theoretical curve showing just how something exciting breaks into the mainstream. The first 15-ish percent of people to buy into something are considered early adopters, and EVs have certainly burned through that market like wildfire. Once annual… Read more…

Trump Seeks UAW Support With Anti-EV Stance In the middle of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, on the brink of maybe the largest UAW strike in history, and embroiled in a somewhat messy electric vehicle production ramp-up nationwide, former President and Fulton County co-defendant Donald Trump took to social media to bash EVs and Biden in… Read more…

The EV revolution is on hold as the ‘Big Three’ autoworkers go on strike Photo by MATTHEW HATCHER / AFP via Getty ImagesAt midnight on Friday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) went on strike, imperiling the “Big Three” automakers’ plans to spend billions of dollars on electric vehicles in a bid to catch up to Tesla. It was a historic moment — never before had workers at all three companies gone on strike at the same ti…

EV-Swapping Classic Cars Doesn’t Really Make Sense The electric era is coming, whether we all like it or not. It’s an exciting time — new propulsion methods, new forms of tuning and modifying, a whole new world of power adders to consider. But if you’re thinking about updating your classic car to the 21st century, you might want to hold off for a few more years. Read more…

China Is Mad At EU Over EV Market Probe: Report The European Union launched an investigation into the recent “flood” of Chinese-built electric vehicles this week. European Commission President Urula von der Leyen unveiled discussions that Chinese EV makers are massively benefiting from government subsidies, creating unfair trade imbalance. The EU probe is designed… Read more…

Jennifer Granholm Went On An EV Road Trip And It Was Kind Of A Mess NPR recently went along on a four-day EV road trip with Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. She got to experience the realities of owning an EV in the U.S. firsthand. Read more…

EV Gender Gap Suggests Men Want Novelty, Women Want Value: Report Despite EVs gaining wider acceptance in the U.S. market, a trend seems to be emerging among buyers based on gender. Men are far more likely to buy EVs than women, according to Edmunds. The reasons go beyond early adopter syndrome and have more to do with the nature of car buying, which is based on emotion. Men want… Read more…

Don’t Go Buy A Brand New EV Just Yet; Try Used Instead After experiencing a sales high with buyers clamoring to get their hands on EVs, sales have slowed down and inventory is up. While that’s a good thing for buyers who have been looking for certain popular models, what many EV buyers should really be doing is going used. Prices on some used EV models are very good. Here… Read more…

The new Mustang Mach-E Rally is Ford’s off-roadiest performance EV yet 2024 Mustang Mach-E Rally in Grabber Yellow. | Image: FordThis new Mach-E Rally is what you’d get if you could cross Ford’s most performant Mustang Mach-E electric SUV trim, the GT, with the company’s discontinued Focus RS rally sport monster. Ford initially revealed the Mustang Mach-E Rally at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July, but is toda…

EV Adoption Varies Widely From State To State Good morning! It’s Tuesday, September 5, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Step Inside The Factory That Recycles 95 Percent Of EV Batteries The first EV to go on sale in the U.S. might have been way back in the 1890s, but it’s not been until more recently that the tech has taken off and been adopted by America’s motorists. Now, battery-powered models account for six percent of new car sales in the States and around three percent of all vehicles assembled… Read more…

Read This: EV Charging Should Be So Much Easier EV charging is a hassle. I’m not talking about simply finding a charger to use: I’m talking about all the extra tech that comes along with simply plugging an EV in to get some juice. But as our colleague Kevin Williams pointed out for Heatmap, we’d all be better off with just a simple wall outlet. Read more…

Mercedes-Benz’s first EV charging hubs will open this fall A rendering of Mercedes-Benz’s charging hub. | Image: Mercedes-BenzMercedes-Benz announced its first electric vehicle DC fast charging hubs will launch in the fourth quarter of 2023, with the first station locations coming to Atlanta, Georgia; Chengdu, China; and Mannheim, Germany. The so-called “Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging Network” will h…

The Hummer EV Makes A Ridiculous Overlanding Rig If you’re the kind of person that likes to head for the hills and escape the troubles of the real world with a night under canvas, then there’s a good chance you’re worried about the state of the world right now. If that’s the case, you might be looking for a way to cut the emissions from your camping trip. That’s… Read more…