Electric : Car News And Reviews

One of the most annoying things that a driver can do in a crowded parking lot is drive past a parking space, stop, throw it in reverse, and then try and back into the spot. This inevitably means that everyone behind them ends up having to back up too so the asshat can back into the spot.

While lots of automakers are adding hybrid and electric cars to their lineups, Volvo is going above and beyond with its commitment to green vehicles with the announcement that every single one of their new cars will have an electric motor.

We’ve known for a while that Nissan has been planning to launch a new and improved LEAF EV with significantly greater range than the current model. We now know that the new LEAF will be revealed this coming September 6.

I mentioned last month that Faraday Future would be on hand at the Pikes Peak hill climb with its prototype FF91. The car would be racing up the mountain in the exhibition class. Well the hill climb has come and gone, and a video of the Faraday making its run up the hill has now surfaced.

Here’s some great for early buyers of the Tesla Model 3 EV. Elon Musk has tweeted that the very first production Tesla Model 3 will be completed by this Friday. This is earlier than expected in part because regulatory requirements were completed two weeks ahead of schedule.

The all-electric Fisker EMotion is meant to take on the Tesla model S EV. The styling of the EMotion is fantastic with swoopy a body and good looks. Fisker promises that the Emotion will drive for 400 miles on a charge and can charge enough for 125 miles of driving in only 9 minutes.

The Chevy Bolt is the compact EV from Chevrolet that lots of buyers are looking forward to getting their hands on. The Bolt has a great long driving range, great interior space, and is well-priced. One of the items that prospective buyers might be wondering about is just how safe the small EV is.

When EVs first started to come about, my biggest fear was that the race towards electrification would mean the end of performance cars. However, the tech has actually turned out to be a boon for performance cars with many of the fastest rides in the world being electrified hybrids, and the pure electric Tesla P100D being insanely fast.

Workhorse is the company behind that cool electric pickup truck we talked about a while back. The company has unveiled another high-tech vehicle, and this one is infinitely cooler than that truck. It’s called the SureFly and it is a personal flying vehicle designed to carry a pilot and a passenger. Its four rotors are driven by electricity with eight motors each driving a single propeller.

I’ve always been a big fan of the style of the Volkswagen microbus and was really enamoured with the I.D. Buzz Concept. If you missed it, the I.D. Buzz is a thoroughly modernized and electric reboot of the class VW Type 2 bus from back in the day.

Toyota has done a lot in recent years to distance itself from the old stigma that it only makes bland automobiles. Hell, even Akio Toyoda publicly announced that they weren’t going to be building boring cars under his watch, a bold claim for a company that has long benefited from the perks of designing safe, unassuming vehicles.

The Chevy Bolt EV launched first in California back in December and it was supposed to roll out to everyone this September. Chevy marketing director for cars and crossovers, Steve Majoros, has announced that the launch date has been accelerated.

If all goes according to plan, the first Tesla Model 3s should be rolling on the streets in the coming months. While that car hasn’t even officially launched, Tesla is already teasing what’s next. At its 2017 Shareholder meeting, Elon Musk talked a bit about the Tesla Model Y.

Having lived in Colorado Springs for nearly a year now, I have been up the road to Pikes Peak several times. Now Faraday Future has announced that it’s odd looking, but speedy FF 91 EV will be racing up the peak as part of its development.

The Dubuc Tomahawk EV has some impressive stats. It packs in 800 hp and 1000 lb-ft of torque. That is enough power to push the pure electric car from 0-60 mph in 2 seconds in race mode, and 4 seconds in street mode.