Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO and the outspoken leader of his very own social media platform, X, went on an advice-giving spree yesterday after American EV startups Rivian and Lucid posted their financial results for the fourth quarter and the entirety of 2023. In short, both Rivian and Lucid are burning through cash. In the…

In countries where electric cars have been successfully democratized, like China, for example, affordability is inextricably linked to low raw material prices. In the U.S., where the road to electrification is far more complex, the impact of increasingly lower raw material prices is expected to truly materialize by the end of the decade, new research…

At the media launch of the all-new 2024 Honda Prologue, I knew drive time would be fairly limited. Honda folks had us scheduled to scoot around on their suitcase-sized e-scooter for roughly as long as we had with the actual vehicle we all came to drive. But towards the end of our couple hours…

There’s no longer an expiration date on Mercedes-Benz combustion engines. Due to the recent trends of slower-than-expected demand for EVs, the German automaker is recalibrating its EV transition pace, cutting the number of electric models it expects to sell by 2030 in half, according to the company's latest investor statement. Earlier, Mercedes-Benz had pledged to…

2024 is shaping up to be a make-it-or-break-it year for any automaker in the EV game. GM is no exception. Its Ultium platform rollout still isn't going all that well. As a result, it's pivoting to a more diverse portfolio that includes hybrids. The Goliath is shifting some of its EV plans and supposedly canceling some…

The Prologue is Honda’s first mass-market EV. And fortunately it’s making a lot more sense on arrival than it was a few months ago.  What happened last month was a big contextual piece. The company rolled out two head-turning Honda EV concepts providing a glimpse of its 0 Series (Zero Series) electric vehicles set to…

Stellantis announced that the 2024 Fiat 500e for the North American market entered production at the Mirafiori Assembly Plant in Turin, Italy. According to the manufacturer, the first dealer allocation of the all-electric Fiat 500e vehicles sold out in less than a week. That's a good sign, although it does not automatically mean the…

GM may soon have Chevy and GMC plug-in hybrid pickups. Dodge considers EVs that have much more than a V-8 soundtrack. And the Honda Prologue remixes GM’s Ultium into its own gateway EV. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.  In a first drive of the 2024 Honda Prologue EV, we found that this…

Employees of automakers across the globe are facing big changes in the coming years. As traditional combustion-dedicated propulsion shops are sunset, automakers are working to build big battery factories across the U.S. to support the growing EV initiative. And that means a whole new chance for unions to organize a new generation of workers. …

General Motors has cancelled plans for more electric vans and a Ford Maverick-sized electric pickup trucks as it undertakes a "crash program" to launch plug-in hybrid pickups, Autoweek reported Tuesday. The automaker has nixed electric replacements for the ancient Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans based on the BrightDrop electric delivery van, according to the…