Ford is reducing planned production volumes of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck by half next year, Automotive News reported Monday, citing a memo addressed to suppliers. According to the memo, Ford has told suppliers to prepare for average volume of around 1,600 Lightnings per week at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan,…

Tesla is recalling more than 2 million vehicles, nearly all of the vehicles it has sold in the US to date, to fix a flawed system designed to make sure drivers are paying attention when they use Autopilot. Rather than physically recalling vehicles, documents posted today by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)…

In October, the number of new all-electric car registrations in the United States increased once again. According to the registration data from Experian (via Automotive News), the total number of battery electric car (BEV) registrations during the first ten months of 2023 amounted to 955,509, which is about 58% more than a year ago…

EV charger reliability has a lot of room for improvement. A good place to start is uniform error codes. That's the conclusion of the Charge X Consortium, launched by the federal government in 2023 to tackle EV charger reliability as the Biden administration rolls out a planned $7.5 billion charging network. It recently released a…

If you are in the market for a new or used EV, there are some serious deals to be had. And as we get closer to the end of the year, automakers and dealers should be motivated to move some metal. The Volkswagen ID.4 has received mixed reviews, but many of those flaws can be…

We drive the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV. Ford is scaling back EV production. And can public charging be fixed with better error codes? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.  The 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV is the first mass-market SUV built on GM’s Ultium EV toolkit. As we found in a first drive this…

Panasonic and Sila, a next-generation battery materials company, announced the signing of a commercial agreement for Sila's high-performance nano-composite silicon anode, which is called Titan Silicon. The Japanese battery manufacturer targets a significant increase in energy density and expects to enable automakers to deliver "unmatched EV performance," by "dramatically increasing vehicle range" and reducing…

The 2024 Chevy Blazer EV is different.  That’s because compared to the Ford Mustang Mach-E, the Hyundai Ioniq 5, the Kia EV6, the Volkswagen ID.4, and various others—anything you might compare it to directly—the Blazer EV is primarily a U.S.-bound product, conceived specifically with the U.S. in mind.  After spending a few hours in…

After spending much of 2022 and 2023 trying its very best to rapidly increase production of F-150 Lightnings, Ford is cutting its planned electric truck output for 2024. Like a lot of the recent belt-tightening from auto manufacturers, the news underscores how much rockier the zero-emission transition will be than we all previously thought. …

Tesla has advertised the Cybertruck not only as this groundbreaking EV that revolutionizes truck design and manufacturing but also as a versatile truck that can take care of the dirty stuff, like venturing beyond the beaten path and navigating rugged landscapes with all the electro-mechanical wizardry at its disposal. Things that trucks are normally expected…