The charging experience for Rivian owners (and pretty much all non-Tesla EV owners) is on track to improve after the roll-out of the Tesla North American Charging Standard adapter. This gives Rivian owners access to over 15,000 Tesla Supercharger stalls across the U.S. But Tesla and Rivian aren’t stopping at that in their quest to…

Market turmoil and fierce competition affect everyone, either directly or indirectly. It seems that Tesla is now experiencing some challenges in China, too. According to Bloomberg (and CnEVPost), Tesla reduced production output at its Giga Shanghai factory in China amid sluggish growth and an ongoing price war. The unofficial report is based on input…

A Tesla Cybertruck owner shares his thoughts about the truck after owning it for a week and driving it 4,500 miles across the country. You are probably thinking that's an insane amount of miles in just one week and we agree. If he maintained that weekly mileage over the course of the first year,…

Land Rovers, especially older models, have a certain kind of charm about them. They can pretty much go anywhere and they’re easy to fix on the side of the road–and you’ll be doing quite a bit of that, trust me. However, they’ve never been exactly environmentally friendly–that was never their purpose–but in this day…

As the United States ambles toward a very contentious and consequential election season, the two leading presidential candidates could not be further apart on the eventual transition to electric vehicles. But even if the White House gets a new (or returning) occupant after November, the Biden Administration's highway transportation chief has this to say about…

The first Tesla DC fast chargers started to appear on third-party charging networks, as Tesla expanded its business to become a hardware provider. This month, EG Group's EV Point network shared a few images of its charging station in Asda Express, Uttoxeter, UK. The site is equipped with EV Point branded chargers, which are…

In many ways, Tesla is ahead when it comes to building EVs. The company dominates the U.S. EV market, offers an incredible charging network, has best-in-class software, extremely good battery management tech and a new 800-volt architecture for the Cybertruck. But none of its tech prowess can help with long-range towing. As Engineering Explained's Jason…

BMW continues to preview its next-generation EVs with a new concept car, while also providing a bit more detail on some of the engineering for these new models, which are due to start production next year. The BMW Vision Neue Klasse X is an electric SUV that forecasts a model due to start production in…

Polestar, the Chinese-owned, Swedish-based electric car maker is among the companies that have a deal with Tesla to gain access to the Supercharger network of DC fast chargers in North America. However, that hasn’t happened yet–it will sometime this spring, according to Tesla–but if you’re a Polestar EV owner who lives in China, you…

Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis are recalling nearly 150,000 EVs in the U.S. over an electronics issue that may cause 12-volt batteries to lose charge while driving. The recall population includes 98,878 Hyundai and Genesis EVs from model years 2023 and 2024—including the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Hyundai Ioniq 6, Genesis GV60, Genesis Electrified GV70, and Genesis…