By William Johnson Posted on April 24, 2023 The upcoming Mercedes AMG EQE SUV was spotted completing testing in California ahead of a planned launch in the coming year. Mercedes has been slowly but surely expanding its EV lineup in its largest markets, Europe, North America, and China. This includes flagship models like the EQS,
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As the EV market expands at a rapid pace, many in the industry are lamenting the relative lack of EV engineering standards. Now the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has taken a major step forward, releasing a draft Roadmap of Standards and Codes for Electric Vehicles at Scale. The roadmap identifies key safety, performance, and
Tesla has released a rare update on the battery degradation in its electric cars. The automaker claims its batteries only lose about 12% of capacity after 200,000 miles. Battery degradation, which represents the loss in capacity and range over time with increasing mileage, is one of the biggest concerns of new electric vehicle buyers. It’s
Porsche’s latest 911 GT3 only arrived for the 2022 model year but an updated version has just been spotted testing. The update looks to be a mild one and likely coincides with the planned update for the full 992-generation range. Prototypes for the updated 911 Carrera and 911 Turbo models have already been spotted, including
Road Test: 2023 Audi E-Tron Quattro Chronos Edition Solid German Electric Luxury SUV There is something about driving a German car, and Audi does not disappoint with the 2023 E-Tron Quattro. The solid feeling when driving the highway or even closing the doors present the E-Tron as a true electric luxury SUV. The luxury electric
A high-speed car chase recently unraveled on the streets of Florida, where two armed suspects were trying to escape the police in a white Lexus, but they were presumably running low on fuel because, at one point, they started searching for an alternative getaway car. Their first target, a Genesis G80, was unsuccessful. Apparently, the
California might require bidirectional charging. Utah takes from the EV drivers and gives to the gas guzzlers. And when will new vehicles with tailpipes become tone-deaf? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. A cumulative 1.5 million plug-in vehicles have been sold in California, the state reported last week. It’s hit that target about
The poor reliability of public chargers is an industry-wide scandal. Better access to real-time diagnostic data surely wouldn’t hurt, so we’re happy to hear about a new cloud-based digital monitoring platform called CogniEN, from ABB Electrification. CogniEN isn’t specifically designed for the charging industry—it’s also aimed at the utility, data center and renewable energy sectors.
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The City of Boulder announced today that it’s purchased a Rosenbauer RTX, the State of Colorado’s first electric fire truck. Austrian-based Rosenbauer’s RTX is equipped with a 360 kW electric powertrain and two Volvo Penta Batteries totaling 132 kWh of power. It has four-stage electronic regenerative braking. It’s a range-extended EV, so it also has
By Maria Merano Posted on April 23, 2023 Elon Musk will appear on Real Time with Bill Maher next Friday, April 28, at 10 p.m. ET. Maher broke the news recently and mentioned bringing up Mars to Elon Musk. “And I want to talk to him. I’ve never been on that page of why we
Tesla is trying again to get owners of older Model S and Model X with “unlimited free Supercharging for life” to give up the perk with a new offer. For the first few years of selling Model S and Model X, Tesla was offering free Supercharging for the vehicle’s life. It was a really enticing
The tank-like 2009 Howe & Howe Ripsaw tracked vehicle featured in “The Fate of the Furious” is headed to auction. It’s scheduled to cross the block at Mecum’s Indianapolis auction on May 20. Even in a movie that included a stampeded of remote-controlled cars, a Soviet submarine, and the silver-screen debut of the 2018 Dodge
Cupra, which is Seat’s spin-off brand, has revealed a digital two-door concept car known as the DarkRebel, which hints at a possible all-electric halo model that might become a reality in the next decade Previewed in hologram form during the debut of the very real Cupra Tavascan, the DarkRebel can be explored and configured through
What kind of fuel is being tested by Toyota in plug-in hybrids? Which Jaguar and Land Rover EVs are in the works? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 22, 2023. In a review, we found the 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLE 450e plug-in hybrid
GreenPower Motor Company (NASDAQ: GP) has received an order for 41 purpose-built Type D BEAST and Type A Nano BEAST electric school buses totaling $15 million from the state of West Virginia. As part of the deal, GreenPower will begin manufacturing electric school buses in the state. “Since we first announced our intent to manufacture
By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 22, 2023 Driverless cars are pretty much inevitable at this point, but in the process of their technologies becoming mainstream, incidents involving law enforcement are bound to occur. One such incident was captured on video, where it generated nearly 14 million views on popular social media platform TikTok. The
The US has more than 450,000 warehouses and distribution centers – that’s 16.4 billion square feet of rooftop space ripe for hosting solar panels. Rooftop solar on US warehouses Environment America and Frontier Group crunched some numbers and shared what they discovered in a study called “Solar on Warehouses.” They report that the rooftops of US
bp pulse and APCOA Parking Group have partnered to open more than 100 EV fast charging hubs across Europe.Under the agreement, bp pulse plans to install ultra-fast charging at APCOA car parks in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK over the next three years to help expand its charging network in
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Volkswagen this week revealed the ID.7, an electric hatchback that will serve as the Passat replacement here in the U.S. The ID.7 is due to reach dealerships next year, but before it arrives the long-awaited ID.Buzz will reach these shores. 2025 Polestar 4 Swedish performance EV brand Polestar revealed a new crossover positioned between its
Chinese EV giant NIO plans on building on its initial Europe success with a new lineup of affordable compact cars. However, given NIO’s premium status they will be sold under a different brand name. A budget friendly sub-brand, codenamed Firefly, is currently in development and will be launched in 2024. The Firefly brand’s first model
It’s Earth Day. And in what’s become a Green Car Reports’ Earth Day tradition, it’s time to revisit a litmus test for how much the vehicle market has changed. The question: “When will buying vehicles with tailpipes be seen as morally wrong?” Or, to paraphrase and clarify: When will driving around your neighborhood, emitting exhaust
Charged hosted a virtual conference on EV engineering this week, and all of the sessions were recorded and are now available to watch on-demand for free! Register for a session here to watch the presentation, download the slides and submit questions to the speakers. Just like the content Charged brings you every day, the conference
Our US correspondent, Ricky Roy recently picked himself up a 7 seat Tesla Model Y for family hauling duties. In this video, he explains why he believes it to be the best, most capable and well-rounded family car – electric or otherwise. 00:00 Tesla still on top 00:47 Third row test 1:28 A familiar face
Box trucks are convenient for when you have to move a large amount of cargo around. But what if only you need to lug around a small amount of cargo, yet don’t want to give up your U-Haul vibes? That’s when you’ll want to call on the world’s smallest box truck, which just happens to
By Joey Klender Posted on April 21, 2023 Tesla Autopilot did not fail to perform safely in the case of a 2019 accident involving a Model S in California, a jury in the state found on Friday. Justine Hsu of Los Angeles sued Tesla in 2020 after an accident that occurred the year prior left
Sodium-ion batteries, which could offer significant cost and raw material procurement advantages over the lithium-ion kind, have been much discussed in the press of late. Chinese battery behemoth CATL unveiled its first-generation sodium-ion battery in July 2021. At the time, analysts predicted that Na-ion cells, which are expected to offer only modest energy density, would
California State Capitol, Photo by Tony Webster California has reached 1.5 million electric vehicle sales two years ahead of its planned 2025 target for the sales milestone, according to the California Energy Commission. With EV demand soaring, California is not the first place to reach its EV sales goals early, and it won’t be the
McLaren Automotive on Friday named Tobias Sühlmann as its new chief design officer. He replaces Rob Melville who left McLaren last year to join Ceer, the new electric vehicle brand of Saudi Arabia. Sühlmann has over two decades of experience in automotive design, most of it earned at the Volkswagen Group. He has previously served