California-based luxury electric car maker Lucid is offering discounts of up to $10,000 for the 2023 model year Air sedan, but only until the end of this month. Customers can also benefit from a $300 bonus for installing a high-capacity home charger, as well as get the company’s premium audio system and advanced driver assistance…

Toyota pushes back about the viability of affordable EVs. Ram introduces a lineup of electric vans. And Tesla buyers can now get the $7,500 EV tax credit up front—if they qualify. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.  Tesla has started applying the EV tax credit at the time of purchase—via its own website…

Ram’s first fully electrified model that you can actually buy is the new ProMaster van, which debuted yesterday and is expected to ship in the first half of 2024. The zero-emissions vehicle can be ordered by commercial customers in the United States, beating the upcoming Ram 1500 REV to the punch by almost a year.…

Stellantis’ Ram brand may be best known for flaunting all the attitude with its Rebel and TRX pickups. But on Tuesday it revealed a lineup that looks no-frills yet goes fully electric.  Its ProMaster Electric Van family is the first fully electric vehicle for Ram, and it leads the way—in tech, if not design statement—toward…

Mazda officially announced that it reached an agreement with Tesla to adopt the Tesla-developed North American Charging Standard (NACS) for charging ports on its upcoming all-electric cars in North America from 2025 onward. The deal also includes access to more than 15,000 Tesla Superchargers across North America for Mazda electric cars (although the number…

An entry-level Toyota EV is unlikely in the near future due to high battery costs, an executive said in a recently published interview with Autocar. Some automakers are launching small, affordable EVs for the European market, but Toyota currently has no plans to follow them, Andrea Carlucci, the automaker's European development boss, said. That's because…

The application of nuclear energy in batteries is typically unheard of. When we speak of nuclear energy or are exposed to it through pop culture (Hollywood exploits the nuclear warfare subject quite often), it usually reminds us of bombs, aircraft carriers, or power plants. But a Chinese company aims to change that. Beijing-based Betavolt has…

Even for Elon Musk, who summarily rejects the rules other CEOs play by, this one was an extraordinary move to make out in the open.  On Monday, Musk took to X to, essentially, demand more control of Tesla from the carmaker’s board. “I am uncomfortable growing Tesla to be a leader in AI & robotics without…

LG Electronics has officially opened its first EV charger production factory in the U.S., with plans to capture a significant part of the expanding market. The new 5,500-square-meter facility, located in Fort Worth, Texas, will produce chargers for the North American market on a mass scale, with an expected annual capacity of more than…

Major countries across the world are seeing a massive shift to electric vehicles taking place right now. It's happening quite rapidly, too. In the U.S., a number of federal incentives and grants are being put in place to help push the infrastructure so desperately needed to handle the number of new EVs expected to…