GM And Stellantis Get $1 Billion From Feds For EVs Good morning! It’s Thursday, July 11, 2024, 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…

EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software Image: Hugo Herrera / The VergeOne of the big selling points you hear for electric vehicles is that they require less maintenance than traditional gas-powered vehicles. No oil changes, less gunk, fewer moving parts — that sort of thing. But EVs are essentially giant computers on wheels. And since when have you known any computer to be problem-fr…

Volkswagen And Rivian Will Work Together On EVs Happy Tuesday! It’s June 26, 2024, 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…

EVs Are Selling Well For Everyone Except Tesla Recently, it seems there’s been a lot of doom and gloom around EV sales. Despite ever-dropping prices the market just hasn’t grown the way automakers would like, leading many to shift their priorities to hybrids instead. New data, however, shows that the EV market as a whole isn’t actually suffering. All the problems… Read more…

Ford Dealers Don’t Have To Spend Millions To Sell EVs Anymore Ford’s EV plans haven’t exactly gone according to, well, plan. Late last year, Ford started to rethink the billions it poured into EVs as sales started to slow and scaled back its European EV plans. Then the company revealed that it loses over six figures on each EV it sales. Then the automaker announced it was doing… Read more…

EVs Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.

Poor resale values of EVs threaten adoption, warn some experts Prices of used EVs continue to plummet and it’s a growing problem for adoption and growth, according to some industry and investment experts.

How an off-road rally for women keeps EVs rolling using clean energy Photos by Tim Sutton, Mayfield Media, courtesy of Rebelle RallySustainably charging electric vehicles and providing power to over 250 people for eight days in the middle of the desert is no easy task. Renewable Innovations has the answer. Continue reading…

Ford Is Rethinking Its $12 Billion Investment In EVs Ford, like other automakers, have gone all in on EVs to the tune of billions of dollars. That gamble hasn’t quite played out like Ford expected it to however. EVs sales have slowed and inventories of once popular models like the Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning have caused the automaker to slash prices and offer… Read more…

Infiniti’s sleek Vision Qe concept is a reminder of the EVs it hasn’t launched Don’t expect Infiniti to make an EV like this any time soon. | Image: InfinitiInfiniti is looking to launch its first electric vehicle ever: a super sporty fastback sedan based on a newly revealed concept it calls the Vision Qe. The luxury brand of Nissan debuted the new concept at Japan’s Mobility Show 2023 this week and promised a production v…

Toyota’s Chairman Is Having His ‘I Told You So Moment’ About EVs Akio Toyoda, chairman of the world’s largest automaker, Toyota, took a stubborn stance on EVs. While other automakers have been pouring billions into developing EVs, Toyota was still betting on hybrids and PHEVs while selling just one EV in the bZ4X. After a relatively hot last couple of years, EV sales have cooled… Read more…

Honda And GM Scrap Plans For Small, Affordable EVs Good morning! It’s Wednesday, October 25, 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…

Automakers Have No Idea What Used EVs Should Cost Good morning! It’s Monday, October 23, 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…

Whoops! Building EVs May Actually Require More Workers When Donald Trump traveled to Michigan to speak with workers at a non-union auto parts supplier that reportedly pays less than McDonald’s does, he attacked the Biden administration for its support of electric vehicles. “Hundreds of thousands of American jobs, your jobs, will be gone forever,” Trump told his audience.… Read more…

People Still Want Hybrids Because EVs Are Too Expensive And Charging Hasn’t Improved Much EVs still cost too much. As of September 2023, the average cost of an EV was still over $53,000. Automakers keep rolling out more and more expensive models. A bad charging infrastructure that isn’t being expanded fast enough isn’t helping matters. Things are so bad that as, Bloomberg reports, many buyers are choosing… Read more…

Trump and the GOP are trying to drive a wedge between autoworkers and EVs Image: GettyLast night, former President and current Republican frontrunner Donald Trump appeared before a crowd in suburban Detroit and tried out his new attack lines against electric vehicles. EVs are too expensive, the former president argued (via The Detroit News); they don’t have enough range and will spur American job losses. EV batteries …

Trump Tells Supporters EVs Will ‘Spell The Death’ Of The Auto Industry Good morning! It’s Thursday, September 28, 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…

EVs Might Not Cost A Butt Load Soon One of the biggest hurdles to electric car proliferation is the cost. According to Cox Automotive new EVs are selling on average about $5,000 more than gas-powered vehicles — $53,469 vs. $48,334. While government incentives can negate some of that gap, and electric cars don’t need pricy gasoline or as much maintenance… Read more…

Honda adopts Tesla’s charging port for future EVs Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeHonda announced today that it’s adopting Tesla’s electric vehicle charging connector for its future vehicles. The Japanese automaker was one of the holdouts to accept the competing (and winning) standard, joining the likes of Ford, GM, Rivian, Volvo, Polestar, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, and Fisker. Honda is…

Polestar is working on its own smartphone to seamlessly sync with its luxury EVs Image: GettyPolestar has found another product to slap its logo on, and it’s not an electric car. The Swedish-based, Chinese-owned EV maker will launch its own smartphone in December, Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath told CNBC at the IAA Mobility auto show in Munich, Germany, this week. The phone will be produced by Xingji Meizu, a smartphone comp…