A small team within Ford has spent the last two years developing a low-cost platform for smaller electric vehicles, CEO Jim Farley said on Tuesday.  "We made a bet in silence two years ago," Farley told investors during the company's fourth-quarter and full-year earnings call, describing the creation of a "super-talented skunkworks team" that…

Porsche appears to be keeping all that’s great about its leading-edge Taycan electric sports car, while teasing out more of the numbers that matter: range, efficiency, and acceleration.  The 2025 Porsche Taycan starts with a larger battery pack. Versions with the Performance Battery Plus now have a gross capacity of 105 kwh—up from 93 kwh.…

Toyota announced an additional $1.3 billion of investment at its Georgetown, Kentucky plant today. The brand said in a statement that the investment will be earmarked for assembling its upcoming three-row electric SUV for the U.S. market. The new investment will also support the construction of a new battery assembly line. This complements Toyota's plans…

A small number of 2023-2024 Kia Niro EV and 2023 Kia EV6 electric vehicles are being recalled for an issue that most definitely can’t be remedied with an over-the-air update.  In affected vehicles, Kia explains, one of the driveshafts may have been improperly heat-treated, potentially allowing it to break under load. That would result in…

No EV owner can escape battery degradation. But drivers of battery-powered cars can take steps to reduce the rate at which the high-voltage battery pack loses its energy-storage capacity so that the driving range stays as close as possible to the original figure five or 10 years down the road. The issue of battery…

Rivian has set March 7 as the date for its next big reveal. Kia recalls some of its EVs over an issue that’s definitely not of the over-the-air type. And does an all-night diner like Waffle House make sense for EV charging? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.  On March 7, Rivian will…

First, there was the Chinese-made Dacia Spring, and then came the Citroen e-C3. These are some of the cheapest all-electric cars you can get your hands on in Europe, but the wave of affordable electron-powered vehicles is just getting started because Hyundai is getting ready to play the game on the Old Continent. Say…

Rental car companies have jumped onto the EV train across the globe. That plunge may have been a bit premature, though, as one of the most prominent rental agencies in the U.S. is ditching the majority of its EVs. And after Tesla hit the cutting room floor, so will Polestar. Welcome to Critical Materials,…

The first new EV charging site in Tennessee funded through the Biden administration's National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program bucks the trend of co-locating chargers with gas pumps. Installed by Atlanta-based charging infrastructure firm EnviroSpark, the new chargers are being hosted by a Waffle House restaurant in Lakeland, Tennessee. Of the NEVI-funded sites in the…

In December, plug-in electric car sales in Europe decreased by 29% year-over-year. However, it wasn't that bad because the base of December 2022 was inflated by the rush for EVs before the incentives ended. According to EV Volumes data shared by researcher Jose Pontes, 294,166 new plug-in electric cars were registered in Europe in…