Dec 15, 2022 | Business, Electric Vehicles
The past year was sobering for investors who poured money into Tesla Inc and rival electric vehicle startups that hoped to emulate Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s success. As interest rates rose and financial markets gyrated, shares in many EV startups deflated. Rivian...
Dec 15, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles
Arcimoto, the maker of the three-wheeled electric Fun Utility Vehicles (FUVs), is teaming up with Faction to develop EVs that can be delivered to a customer’s hotel through a combination of low-level autonomy and tele-assist technology. The tie-up is part of...
Dec 8, 2022 | Charging, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicle drivers in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and Owosso, Michigan, are the first to benefit from General Motors’ Dealer Community Charging Program. These deployments of new level 2 (AC) chargers are the first in a planned rollout of 40,000 new...
Dec 8, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Hybrids
The have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too feeling of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or PHEVs, is probably why a survey of nearly 500 PCMag readers overwhelmingly voted them as the electric cars they’d be most likely to buy in the next five years. Unlike a traditional...
Dec 1, 2022 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured, US Economy
New electric vehicle models from multiple automakers are starting to chip away at Tesla’s dominance of the U.S. EV market, according to national vehicle registration data. But numbers collected by S&P Global Mobility show that Tesla still controlled about...
Nov 17, 2022 | Drones, Electric Vehicles, Transit
German aircraft manufacturer Volocopter flew its electric helicopter in air traffic for the first time when it took to the skies in Paris on November 10. The aircraft, known as the VoloCity, resembles a large drone with eight rotors and space for two people. The...
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