EV

Tesla has been into rainbow Easter eggs of late. Recently, we saw one that allowed owners of the Model S to make the autopilot lane on the car’s display look like the rainbow road from Mario Kart.…

Now that it’s been on the market for a couple of years, word on the street is that BMW will be giving its i8 electric sports coupe more power and some visual refinements for the next model year.…

BMW has announced a bit of an update to its i3 electric car for 2017 model year. The new version of the car gets a battery that has 50% higher capacity than previous versions of the i3.…

In the world of electric cars, most struggle to go 100 miles on a single charge. Tesla is on a completely different level with its Model S EV.…

One of the cool things about electric cars aside from the no gas and zero emissions thing is that they have gobs of torque. This means that even when an EV doesn’t look fast, it often is.…

Tesla is taking some lumps over its recently launched Model X SUV. The car has fancy Falcon Wing rear doors that open up electronically without the driver having to do it manually.…

A group of researchers from Mississippi State University has taken a Subaru BRZ and turned it into a unique hybrid test bed. The car is dubbed the “Car of the Future” and is a plug-in hybrid that uses a battery pack with 12.7 kWh of power.…

The image you see here are of a new electric race car dubbed the Pariss Electric Roadster. The French-designed vehicle reminds me of a mashup of an AMG GT racer with Mazda RX-8 DNA.…

Tesla is set to kick off reservations for its much anticipated entry level Model 3 EV on March 31. According to reports from Tesla employees, many of the stores have taken inquiries from prospective customers, and early indications are that stores will have as many as 100 people lined up to reserve their Model 3, and estimates are ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 possible reservations right out of the gate.…

Korean automaker Hyundai is working on bringing a new EV to the US market that will be called the Ioniq Electric. The car has the same battery packs as the Kia Soul EV with 28kWh of power inside.…

In theory, an electric vehicle is a great thing with no need for fuel or oil changes, and producing no pollution from an exhaust pipe. The reality is that EVs simply don’t work for many drivers due to short driving ranges, and the lack of a good charging infrastructure outside most major cities.…

Genovation is a company that makes high-tech “green” vehicles. Along the way, they’ve also built an insanely powerful experimental EV – the Genovation eXtreme Electric (or GXE).…

The automotive industry has seen some outlandish claims over the years with many of them turning out to be complete vaporware. It may be too early to say for sure if the Chinese carmaker TechRules is full of vapor, but some of the claims it makes for the new AT96 are hard to believe.…

You might remember that slick looking Rimac Automobili Concept_One electric hypercar we talked about back in 2014. The car is a sexy all electric beast packing lots of performance.…

Don’t worry if you have never heard of a Chinese firm called Techrules. We haven’t either. It sounds like some sort of smartphone company, but claims to have a wild sounding electric car that it promises to debut in Geneva.…