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The Ford booth at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show has an indoor demo track for electric cars, including the Ford Mustang Mach-E and the upcoming all-electric pickup, the Ford F-150 Lightning. InsideEVs’ very own Kyle Conner had an opportunity to not only check out the electric F-150 in person, but also to take a ride

Nissan Ariya is one of the most hotly anticipated electric crossovers to debut in 2021 and now you can finally order one in the United States. The Japanese automaker has just opened the order books for the Ariya and also shared its exact production specs for each of the versions on offer. The range kicks

Lucid announced today its third quarter 2021 financial results, including business highlights and released an update about the future plans. The recent months were very busy for the company, which entered NASDAQ in July, started production of the Lucid Air on September 28, and began customer deliveries on October 30. Currently, deliveries spread across the U.S., while

Geely‘s new all-electric brand – Zeekr – has started customer deliveries of its newly launched Zeekr 001 model in China. The first 50 cars were handed over to customers on October 23 at the Zeekr Intelligent Factory in Ningbo, while the total number for the month amounted to 199. That’s quite a noticeable number and

Chinese EV startup XPeng teased a new SUV model, ahead of the upcoming 19th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition (Auto Guangzhou) on November 19, 2021. It will be the fourth model in the lineup, after the XPeng G3, XPeng P7 and XPeng P5.   The company does not say much about its “new smart EV,” but the

Wallbox recently introduced the Pulsar Plus 48 EV charging station to the North American market, so we quickly requested a demonstrator unit for the next installment in the InsideEVs ultimate EV charging station review series.  Back in March, we reviewed the Wallbox Pulsar Plus 40, and it received very high marks, putting it at the

We take the Maxus eDeliver9 out on a road test. Watch our review of this electric panel van here. For some backgroud on the e Deliver 9, refer to the infomation from SAIC’s website below and be sure to like and subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date on our latest video

A photo of a Lucid Air that is charging at an Electrify America station would be nothing special, if not for this little detail. If we look carefully at the dashboard, we can see the info about 20 kW charging power at 80% state-of-charge (SOC). Well, that is a surprising finding, because 20 kW at

Doug DeMuro has reviewed the Mustang Mach-E about a year ago, and now he’s back with a video of the top-dog Mach-E GT. He calls the performance model “an electric muscle car” in the review’s title and that is high praise coming from someone who regularly drives ICE sports cars, including Mustangs. Before delving into DeMuro’s

Ford was present at the 2021 SEMA with a variety of EV stuff, starting with the upcoming Ford F-150 Lightning, a concept Ford Mustang Mach-E Shelby and Ford F-100 Eluminator concept. This last vehicle promotes the Ford Performance Parts’ Eluminator crate motor (first announced in August 2021), envisioned for car enthusiasts that would like to

For those hungry for more Tesla Model S Plaid drag races, here we have a new video with Tesla’s flagship put against the Porsche 911 Turbo S and Nissan GTR. As it turns out, Throttle House has found a way to beat the Plaid, but it’s not what you think. In the first two races

Tesla‘s CEO Elon Musk has announced via Twitter a multi-billion dollar question, whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock (so he would not be accused of not paying income taxes). He attached a poll with two options – Yes or No – that will run for some 24 hours and already about 1.6

The official EPA range and efficiency ratings for the 2022 model year Porsche Taycan and Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo are available now and they remain unchanged compared to the 2021 model year. Below we collected all the numbers for each of 10 individual versions (six Taycan and four Taycan Cross Turismo), which allows us to

Tesla bets on a new 4680-type cylindrical cell format, but according to Lucid’s CEO/CTO Peter Rawlinson. it will not be “this huge breakthrough.” In an interesting IEEE Spectrum article, Peter Rawlinson noted that the larger format and new design has some advantages, including reduced internal resistance and higher volumetric energy density, but it’s better packaging rather

Hyundai revealed two teaser images of the “sleek and spacious” Seven – an all-electric SUV that will be unveiled at the AutoMobility LA show on November 17. It’s an important concept, because it directly previews the upcoming E-GMP-based Hyundai Ioniq 7 SUV. The South Korean manufacturer says that the Seven concept captures the company’s “future

Today at the global climate summit in Glasgow, better known as COP26, a UK startup called ZipCharge introduced its portable electric vehicle charger called the Go – and we’re pretty stoked. The Go is compact, about the size and shape of an average-sized carry-on suitcase, and weighs about 50-lbs. It has a 4 kWh (net

Global passenger plug-in electric car sales doubled year-over-year in September to over 685,000 (up 98%), which is the new all-time monthly record (16% better than the previous one from June). Not only that. The market share, according to Jose Pontes (based on EV-Volumes data), has reached a new all-time record of 10.2% – the first double

Volta‘s charging network announced that since its foundation in 2010, it has delivered enough electricity to provide 100 million electric miles for electric cars. Those were actually free electric miles as the charging points are free to use. The company tries to finance the network through sales of ads displayed on 55-inch digital screens. “Volta’s

Lucid Air, one of the most technologically advanced electric cars ever created, has entered the market. Let’s take a look at some of its specs. The limited Dream Edition version is equipped with a 118 kWh battery pack, featuring 22 modules totaling 6,600 cylindrical cells (2170-type, similar to the Tesla Model 3/Model Y and Rivian

In interesting data about the new Tesla Model X Long Range was recently found in the Tesla‘s application documents sent to EPA. An EV enthusiast – temp (@tempermanant) via Teslarati – notes several differences between the new 2021 model year version and the previous 2020. Documents for the Tesla Model X Plaid are not yet

Hello again, and welcome back to another busy installment of the ABC of EVs. We’ve done a few videos in this series on batteries and some of the terminology such as amps, capacity and elements such as Cobalt. Today we’re turning our attention to voltage. Stay tuned for the details!  The basics  So we know from a previous video that electricity is the

Electrify America today announced the construction groundbreaking of charging stations in two new states: South Dakota and Wyoming. The new charging locations add to Electrify America’s more than 670 charging station locations in the U.S.  The new stations are part of Electrify America’s overall expansion plans through 2025, during which the company expects to complete more than

Tesla’s Elon Musk has been quite active on Twitter lately. For a time, it seemed he was focusing his Twitter activity more on replies than on his own Tweets, but over the past few days, the outspoken CEO has taken to Twitter often. In a reply to a tweet that originally came from Tesla‘s official

Here is a TeslaCam video registered by a Tesla Model 3 that shows an unfortunate incident that happened when the car was charging. The owner of another car, which happens to be a Chevrolet Volt, wanted to avoid driving over the Tesla’s charging cable but failed to throw the cable properly over his car as

Marques Brownlee (aka MKBHD) recently had an opportunity to spend 24 hours with the all-new Rivian R1T and he is clearly impressed with this all-electric pickup. We were very interested in this initial review, as Marques Brownlee is a Tesla Model S owner, and an EV enthusiast and he also had a rare opportunity to

Four in every 10 UK parents want their children to take their driving lessons in electric vehicles (EVs), according to new research. A survey by French car manufacturer Peugeot follows a record sales month for EVs in the UK, with more than 32,000 electric cars registered in September 2021 alone. The study of more than

BMW announced today the official launch of production of the all-new, all-electric BMW i4 at its Plant Munich in Germany. The company produces multiple models at the site, including also combustion-powered and plug-in hybrid BMW 3 Series Sedan and Touring, the BMW M3 and the BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe. The production of all drive

It’s time for an update about Tesla‘s manufacturing infrastructure, which includes two electric car plants (one in California and one in China). Two new plants (in Germany and in Texas) are under construction and should start production by the end of the year or in early 2022. The currently installed potential manufacturing capacity exceeds 1 million

By the way of the Q3 2021 financial report, Tesla has released an update about the progress on its 4680-type cylindrical batteries. The company says that “the 4680 in-house cell project” at the Kato pilot facility in California “continues to progress.” For reference, three months ago the company said that there was substantial progress. An important

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. (Geely) today (October 19, 2021) officially started the production of its all-new, all-electric Zeekr 001 model – the first of the new Zeekr premium brand. The production takes place at the new, highly-automated Zeekr Intelligent Factory in Ningbo, China, which according to the Chinese manufacturer, is the world’s most advanced