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The Renault Group has created a new standalone company for its electric vehicle and software activities called Ampere, after French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère. Described as “the first EV and software pure player born from an OEM disruption,” Ampere will develop, manufacture and sell fully electric passenger cars featuring cutting-edge software-defined vehicle (SDV) technology under

The 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6 is the most aerodynamic vehicle the Korean brand has ever made, delivering an impressively low 0.21 drag coefficient. The vehicle’s slippery shape plays a big part in the Ioniq 6’s high efficiency that enables it to cover 614 kilometers (381 miles) of range on a full battery charge (WLTP). Besides

Geely Auto’s premium EV brand Zeekr reportedly plans to enter select European markets in 2023, with an official announcement to be made at the end of this month. Zeekr CEO An Conghui, who is also president of Geely Holding and chairman of Geely Auto, confirmed the plans at the Chinese launch of the new Zeekr

Audi has had an electric SUV on the market, the E-Tron, since 2018, but now for its mid lifecycle update, the automaker has made a multitude of improvements and also changed the model’s name. The automaker chose simply call it the E-Tron at the time because it was its only EV, but now that it’s

Vehicle evaluations for the 2022 Motor1.com Star Awards are happening right now! This week, our editors are holed up in a secret location in California with 20 vehicles waiting in the wings, all vying for a coveted Motor1.com Star Award. And we’re bringing you, dear reader, along for the ride. Sort of, anyway. After each

A new all-electric premium model is entering the North American market – meet the Genesis Electrified GV70. As the name indicates, it’s an electrified version of the Genesis GV70 model. The South Korean manufacturer recently held a special media event in Los Angeles to present the Electrified GV70, ahead of the public premiere at the

Tesla does not slow down in China, where its production and wholesale shipments (local sales and export) continue to increase at a healthy rate. According to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), in October, Tesla‘s total Made-in-China (MIC) sales volume amounted to 71,704, which is 31.8% more than a year ago. * CPCA reports wholesale shipments,

Think “classic Mini” and images of English villages, cobblestone streets, and afternoon tea come to mind. Oh, and the buddy-bandit movie The Italian Job – both of them. Living up to its name and purpose (its genesis was a wartime fuel shortage), the Mini was indeed miniature and fuel-efficient, but it also happened to be

I’ve been saying for years that electric vehicles won’t go mainstream in the US until there are electric pickup trucks. Here in the US, we love our pickup trucks. So much so that pickup trucks are typically the number 1, 2, and 3 selling vehicles annually. Well, electric pickups arrived in 2022 and there are

Tesla is currently under investigation for its Full Self-Driving Beta program, but this hasn’t affected the automaker’s updates schedule. With the latest FSD Beta v10.69.3 update, the manufacturer hasn’t added any new features, yet it seems to have changed a multitude of aspects of that affect how the system operates – it sounds like its

This year at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, Volkswagen brought out two ID.4-based concepts including one it calls a “Mobile Drone Response Vehicle.” The ID.4 Drone Command Concept shows what vehicles that will enter service with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will actually look like, just an ID.4 with a big roof rack designed

The resurrection of the Hummer brand as GMC’s high-end EV sub-brand appears to be a great business idea and, considering recent news, it seems to have surpassed all expectations. Demand for both models – the GMC Hummer EV Pickup and the GMC Hummer EV SUV – is strong, which ppromptedthe company to close reservations after

The Tesla Model 3 RWD (former Standard Range Plus/SR+) is one of the most popular EVs, with quite decent specs, but today we will take a look at what happens when it runs out of energy. At 90 km/h (56 mph), the Made-in-China (MIC) Model 3 RWD has a range of over 400 km (250

Volkswagen Passenger Cars reports that its global car sales during the first nine months of this year amounted to 3.335 million (including China), which is 12% less than a year ago. Despite lower sales, revenues actually increased by 6.1% to €52 billion, while the operating result more than doubled (up 103%) to €2.5 billion (4.7%

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has stated in the past that the notion of what a recall is should be changed, given that so many issues can be fixed via over-the-air updates. But that can’t fix an improperly reassembled seat belt buckle that was incorrectly put together, the problem potentially present in some 24,000 Model 3s

In late 2021, Tesla launched the Cyberquad for Kids, a reduced-scale replica of the Cyberquad ATV it had showed at the unveiling of the Cybertruck in 2019. Designed for children aged 8 or older, the Cyberquad for Kids proved to be a big hit with consumers, selling out in just a day despite a $1,900

Tesla’s all-new battery energy storage system (BEES) factory in Lathrop, California is almost ready and is ramping up production. This week, the company showed a short video, presenting the plant and some of the production processes, on its Linkedin profile. Tesla is now looking for more employees – but that’s not a surprise, as basically

The BMW Group announced two significant EV-related investments in South Carolina, valued at $1.7 billion in total. The first part of $1 billion is to prepare for the production of all-electric vehicles at the company’s existing manufacturing facility in South Carolina – Plant Spartanburg. This 30-year-old site currently produces 11 models including five X-series (X3,

Today, Tesla applied noticeable price cuts to all versions of the Model 3 and Model Y electric cars in China, which suggests weakening demand. According to the manufacturer’s website, the prices changed by about 5-9%, depending on the version, compared to the previous prices. In the case of the Model 3, the entry-level RWD version

With plenty of clever tech, a luxurious interior, and a 341-mile claimed WLTP range, there’s a lot to like about the recently revealed Mercedes EQE SUV. We had the chance to get up close and personal with the EQE SUV following its global debut in Paris. The above video shows an EQE 500 4Matic SUV, which

Tesla, the world’s largest electric car manufacturer, recently made some noticeable progress to expand its EV lineup with new vehicles. The company achieved a new global production record in Q3 (365,923), although its total installed manufacturing capacity remains at just under 2 million units annually. The main change highlighted by the manufacturer is that the

Mercedes-Benz has four bespoke EVs in its lineup and none of them look like this exclusive rendering of a possible EQC (C-Class equivalent) electric sedan. It looks closer to in style to the EQXX, which is by design because the EQC sedan hasn’t actually been confirmed by Mercedes, and by the time rumors say it

GMC has unveiled the 2024 Sierra EV Denali, the third all-electric truck in its lineup after the Hummer EV pickup and SUV. Sharing the Ultium Platform with the Hummer EV and the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV, the Sierra EV will launch in early 2024 as a fully loaded Denali Edition 1 trim available in limited

Tesla just released its Q3 2022 earnings report and the numbers are impressive. Tesla again turned a profit, which makes that twelve quarters in a row in which Tesla has reported a profit. Tesla basically met expectations last quarter. The main financial details from the Q3 2022 report are as follows:  $ 21.5 billion in revenue

One of the Fisker Ocean electric SUV’s coolest interior features is the rotating infotainment screen. It allows for use both in portrait orientation, which is more suitable for when the vehicle is on the move and it, for instance, needs to display the map, as well as in landscape mode, which makes more sense when

For the second time this month, EV startup Canoo has announced a major fleet order for its electric vans—the biggest one to date, actually. After Zeeba ordered 3,000 Canoo Lifestyle Vehicles and Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles, Kingbee, the work-ready van rental provider, has placed a binding order for 9,300 Canoo EVs, with an option to increase to

Hyundai has announced plans to open a luxury pop-up hotel powered solely by its electric vehicles. The hotel will consist of a cabin, a restaurant, and a cinema and will be located in Essex, England.  The pop-up hotel aims to demonstrate the Ioniq 5’s vehicle-to-load (V2L) capabilities and will be open for three weeks next year.

Nikola Motors founder and former CEO Trevor Milton has been convicted on three of the four counts of fraud he was facing. Milton was charged with two counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud. The 40-year-old insisted he “did nothing wrong” and was only “talking about a business plan”. Trevor Milton founded

GMC Hummer EV owners should be very careful not to damage their vehicles’ taillights, because they are apparently extremely expensive to replace. One owner was recently quoted $4,040 not including labor for the replacement of the passenger side taillight, which seems quite steep, even for an expensive, premium vehicle like the new electric Humvee. The

Lucid is preparing to do its most significant over-the-air software update rollout to date, which should bring several quite important improvements to the user experience. The manufacturer calls this new version of its software Lucid UX 2.0 and says it brings changes to the screen graphics, how the screens and headlights work and it also