Lucid Air, which started by delivering electric-car technology to other companies and is now preparing what might be the most sleek, attractive electric car on the market, is racing to get its Arizona factory built with speed not seen since World War II. Other companies bought factories from GM, Mitsubishi, and Toyota; Lucid is building […]
We’ve known for quite some time that GM is planning to go all-in on electric vehicles. When they discontinued the Volt, they indicated that they were tired of simply dipping their toes in the water with hybrid vehicles, instead wanting to focus on fully electric vehicles. The Chevy Bolt, their first mainstream all-electric car, has […]
A Bloomberg News story by Josh Eidelson and Dana Hull used state records to show that worker safety is a real issue at Tesla. The electric automaker logged hundreds of injuries which it failed to report to the government, according to a state memo; the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (CDOSH) has cited […]
Ford dominates pickup trucks, commercial vans, and police cars; one wonders why anyone else even bothers to try to compete with them in vans and squads. Their dominance of the pickup market has become legendary and to some degree self-fulfilling: because they make so many, (unlike GM) under the same brand, they can have a […]
Lucid Motors’ first car, the Lucid Air, will appear in April at the New York Auto Show. The Silicon Valley automaker developed its own powertrain technologies, and reportedly has the world’s most efficient electric engine: the range is predicted to be 400 miles (easily beating any Tesla), without extra-large battery packs. The company claims its […]
Here are all the electric pickups we know about, in one table. There are many blank spots, and not every factoid is final or definite or even on the same scale; for example, GM’s release on its Hummer lists torque at the wheels, but that doesn’t correspond easily to the SAE torque we’re used to […]
Rivian has major backers, a massive backlog of orders, and the old Diamond Star (Mitsubishi/Chrysler) plant in Illinois. Tesla has marketing money can’t buy, including constant sci-fi media propaganda pushing Nikola Tesla’s genius to levels he himself (immodest though he was) would be surprised by; and they have plants in California and China. Bollinger has […]
There’s yet another player in the electric-truck market: Arrival, a British company which landed a 10,000-truck order from UPS ($440 million). The deal also comes with UPS buying a portion of Arrival, making it a partly-American-owned company; but Hyundai-Kia has also bought in, to the tune of $110 million, and will sell some Arrivals as […]
Today GMC sent shock waves through the automotive community with the teasing of the GMC Hummer EV in their new “Quiet Revolution” campaign. A series of videos were posted to YouTube showing off GM’s new fully electric truck. What we know so far: We know that the new Hummer will produce 1,000 horsepower and 11,500 […]
With a short press release sent out this week, Tesla has claimed the allegations about unintended acceleration in their vehicles are completely false, stating that the latest round of allegations were released by a short-seller who profits when Tesla shares decrease in value. The company also mentioned that they have several safety measures in place to […]