When Utah-based Michael Holbrook took delivery of his spanking new Rivian R1T Launch Edition in June 2022, he felt ecstatic. He was among the early reservation holders and had shelled out roughly $85,000 for the truck, draped in the El Cap Granite metallic paint. Despite the three-year wait, it seemed all worthwhile. Between June 2022…

The Biden administration on Friday outlined requirements for a hydrogen-production tax credit—with tight restrictions aimed at ensuring the hydrogen produced really helps lower emissions. Known as the Clean Hydrogen Production Credit, the tax credit was created as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to help spur large-scale production of hydrogen. But once the prospect…

It seems that electric bicycle manufacturers are trying to stuff their products with as much technology as humanly possible. E-bikes are now so much more than just urban mobility solutions of recreational vehicles, and blur the line between vehicle and IOT device. Perhaps the bike that embodies this the most is the Urtopia Fusion, a…

Chevy Blazer EV sales have been halted. Porsche and Audi are issuing recall letters for most of their plug-in vehicles, but it’s not for the vehicles themselves. Hydrogen rules aim to reel in the dirtier side of the hydrogen economy. And we look at the Prius Prime as one of the year’s best. This and…

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…