Tesla is working on some tweaks that are designed to claw back some of the advertised driving range that was lost after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed new rules for testing and certifying an electric vehicle’s range and energy efficiency. The news comes from well-known Tesla hacker and reverse-engineering expert @greentheonly, who found…

Automotive supplier Bosch and Volkswagen Group subsidiary Cariad are demonstrating tech that allows EVs to park and charge themselves. Announced at CES 2024, Bosch is combining a previously-shown automated parking system with a charging robot that automatically plugs into the vehicle once it's positioned in a parking space. Once it's finished charging, the vehicle will…

Electric bicycles of today come in a variety of shapes and sizes. On the one hand, we have traditional e-bikes that take the form of standard bicycles, albeit with a motor strapped on to provide extra assistance. On the other hand, we have e-bikes that take on a life of their own – machines like…

Plug-in electric car sales growth in China continued in November, which translated into another monthly record (the fourth one in a row). According to EV Volumes' data, shared by researcher Jose Pontes, 872,415 new passenger plug-in electric cars were registered in China in November, which is 39% more than a year ago. …

Car companies love to talk about “mobility solutions” and “last-mile delivery systems,” but with a few notable exceptions, the commercial vehicle space feels like a pretty stagnant one. Even if they happen to be electric, most efforts in that arena are just delivery vans or maybe pickup truck. Where’s the innovation? Well, Kia—the Korean automaker…

One thing that's fun about this software-focused transformation of the car industry is that automakers are throwing a lot of different things at the wall to see what sticks. Think Toyota's simulated manual gearbox for electric vehicles, or Hyundai's forthcoming sports team-themed "skins" for your infotainment system. Maybe some of these ideas will be discarded;…

Is 270 miles enough of a rated range in a new electric vehicle? As the Department of Energy pointed out this past week, 270 miles was the median rated range for new 2023-model-year EVs, meaning just as many EV nameplates had less than 270 miles of range as had more. Meanwhile, the top EV range…

The fight for automotive supremacy in the future won't come down to horsepower or mechanical specs. It will probably come down to software; at least, that's what the car companies tell us. That idea may seem radical to anyone driving a car from the last decade who's just happy that their Apple CarPlay or Android…

Kia has revealed much more about its Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) strategy for providing modular vehicles for last-mile delivery and other uses, potentially around the globe. And with the extensive update, on Monday at CES in Las Vegas, it also provided a glimpse of the first several PBV products that are essentially different twists on…

Once again, it seems like every other day there’s some new Chinese EV that only further proves just how far ahead that market is compared to the rest of the world. While the U.S. struggles to effectively get reasonably priced EVs on the road, Chinese companies introduce new ones constantly. A few days ago, Geely…