Hurricane Idalia Flooding Can Cause EVs To Catch Fire Weeks After Storm For many across the United States, hurricane season brings the possibility of effectively rendering your car a total loss. The proliferation of electric vehicles has added another element of danger: Saltwater-provoked lithium-ion battery fires. Read more…

Ford Is Killing Gas Crossovers To Make Room For EVs Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 31, 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 today. Read more…

The key ingredient to millions of EVs is buried under a former volcano — but there’s still a lot we don’t know Lithium Americas Corp. is in the process of building a lithium mine in the remote Thacker Pass area of northern Nevada that has drawn impassioned protest from nearby tribes, ranchers, and environmentalists. | Image: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe company constructing a controversial new lithium mine to supply GM’s electric…

EVs Are Only Environmentally Friendly If You Drive A Lot: Report There’s no question that EVs are better for the environment as far as tailpipe emissions go, but research suggests that the production of batteries poses a problem when comparing EVs and ICE-equipped cars. In order for EVs to be environmentally beneficial, drivers must pass a certain mileage threshold, but many U.S.… Read more…

GM Really Wants To Get More EVs Out The Door General Motors has big plans for its EVs. Joining its current (ha, get it?) lineup of electric vehicles by mid-2024 are the Cadillac Escalade IQ, Silverado EV, Equinox and Celestiq, just to name a few. The automaking giant expects to have built 400,000 EVs by that time. According to Automotive News, it’s part of an… Read more…

Conservative States Are Piling New Taxes On EVs One of the big incentives for switching to an EV, other than the reduced tailpipe emissions you’ll spew out, is the cost saving that an electric car can give you over its lifetime. There are tax breaks when you want to buy a new EV, cost-saving at the pump and in some places they’re eligible to save on congestion… Read more…

China’s Outdated And Abandoned EVs Are Piling Up As electric vehicles have gotten more capable, their adoption across the U.S. has been spreading, and now around 14 percent of new car sales are electric. But while adoption was slow to take hold Stateside, there are some countries where EVs sold like hot cakes from day one. This means that now, there are outdated… Read more…

GM Admits No Technical Reason CarPlay Couldn’t Be in Future EVs Earlier this year, General Motors revealed it is planning to phase out support for CarPlay and Android Auto in all of its electric vehicles, citing the need for tighter integration with the vehicle as GM rolls out a new infotainment system co-developed with Google. With this week’s high-profile unveiling of the $130,000+ Cadillac Escalade IQ th…

Cadillac’s Escalade IQ makes all other EVs look small 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ Sport. | Image: CadillacCadillac’s $130,000 all-electric Escalade IQ is a completely new take on the larger-than-life luxury SUV. Continue reading…

GM says all of its EVs will be able to power your home by 2026 Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The VergeGeneral Motors announced that all of its electric vehicles will have bidirectional vehicle-to-home (V2H) charging capabilities by model year 2026. The first vehicle to be released with bidirectional V2H charging will be the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV, followed by the 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1, 2024 Chev…

Lucid is dropping prices on three Air EVs ‘while supplies last’ Image: Lucid MotorsLucid Motors has announced it is reinstating “original pricing across the full air lineup,” dropping the price of two of its vehicles below $100,000, according to a press release the company shared with The Verge. The new base prices, “while supplies last,” will be $125,600 for the Air Grand Touring (down from $154,000), $95,0…

Subaru Is Getting Serious About EVs In The U.S. Good morning! It’s Wednesday, August 2, 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…

Ford Is Doing Very Well So Long As You Ignore The $4.5B They Could Lose On EVs Good morning! It’s Friday, July 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…

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It’s Too Hot For EVs To Work Right We already knew electric vehicles don’t do so well when it gets really cold outside. Well, apparently they don’t really like extreme heat either. According to Automotive News, the recent heat wave across much of the Southern and Western U.S. has brought their range issue to the forefront. Read more…

Ford Doesn’t Seem To Be Too Concerned About EVs Piling Up On Dealer Lots EV inventories are on the rise. While some of it can be attributed to automakers finally catching up with production, and Ford Authority says that Ford doesn’t see its EVs piling up on dealer lots as a bad thing. Read more…

McLaren’s EVs And SUVs Are Still At Least Five Years Out Good morning! It’s Tuesday, July 18, 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…

America Needs To Overhaul Its Electrical Grid, And Not Just For EVs Although EV sales in the U.S. have slowed, they still count for around 6.5 percent of the automotive retail market in the U.S. This year, experts predict EVs will hit the million mark in number of new vehicles sold. You may be wondering where all the juice for these EVs will come from, but it turns out that when it… Read more…

The States Building The Most EVs Are Also The Worst To Buy EVs In Good morning! It’s Friday, July 7, 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…