At its market launch in 2020, the Polestar 2 was a welcomed Tesla Model 3 competitor with sleek lines and a dollop of Scandinavian elegance. Backing up its neoteric design was a potent powertrain packing a 78-kilowatt-hour battery and dual electric motors pushing 402 horsepower. Even at its launch, the second Polestar (after an expensive,…
Odds are when you first saw the latest 2024 Toyota Prius hybrid that started arriving earlier in the year, you not only saw a great-looking car but felt a little bit of nostalgia.
That’s because the latest Toyota Prius looks like it’s a descendant of the Prius that made the biggest waves in automotive history—the…
There's no point in sugar-coating it: this was not a great year for General Motors' all-electric future. It was a year filled with new car announcements but limited new car rollouts, not to mention dialed-back plans for battery plants, questions over demand and problems with highly-anticipated new EV models. But there was one shining ray of…
As the electric vehicle market expands, and new waves of EV drivers will spend their first winter with an all-electric car, the Electrify America charging network shared its top five tips for charging in cold weather. EVs, just like any other vehicles, operate the best in a certain window of temperatures, outside of which…
Audi and Porsche are conducting a recall of 240-volt Level 2 AC charging cables for EVs and plug-in hybrids.
The recall covers 93,196 Audi vehicles in the U.S. from model years 2019 to 2024, including the E-Tron and E-Tron Sportback, Q4 E-Tron and Q4 E-Tron Sportback, and E-Tron GT EVs, as well as the Q5…
Automotive dealers and electric vehicles, it’s not quite the match made in heaven. If 2023 was anything to go by, the schism was glaring—a year marked by staunch dealer rebellion against EVs. The resistance came in several ways, one of which was a letter signed by almost 4,000 dealerships to President Biden demanding to “slow…
In early 2024, Acura will launch in the United States its first all-electric car model—the Acura ZDX and its performance Acura ZDX Type S version. The manufacturer recently opened online reservations for the Acura ZDX and ZDX Type S, with a $1,000 refundable reservation fee, ahead of the expected customer deliveries in Spring. It's…
If you tell me right now that California-headquartered Lucid plans to become a mass-market electric vehicle manufacturer, I’d urge skepticism. So far, Lucid’s story has been quite the opposite. The Air electric sedan has a starting price upwards of $80,000 before tax credits and the Air Sapphire—yes that Bugatti Chiron shaming rocketship—has an MSRP…
GM has paused sales of the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV over “software quality issues,” the company announced late Friday.
“We are aware that a limited number of Blazer EV owners have experienced some software quality issues,” said the company in an official response provided to Green Car Reports.
“To ensure our customers have a…
Following a week of reports about problems with the new Chevrolet Blazer EV, including InsideEVs reporter Kevin Williams experiencing a breakdown in one during a road trip, General Motors has halted sales of the electric vehicle to fix certain software issues. Automotive News reports that the stop-sale order was issued late Friday and affects…