Anders Bell is now the head of research and development at Volvo Cars, but recently he served a rather lengthy stint at Tesla Motors as senior director of engineering. He started at Tesla in 2016 and spent 6 years there before ending his stint with Tesla in November of last year. Prior to that,…

BYD is expected to soon announce a decision about the location of its first European electric car factory. According to German newspaper The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS), via Reuters), the European plant will be built in Hungary. The information is unofficial, based on "unnamed sources close to BYD" who indicate that "the decision had…

About a week after the European deliveries of the updated "Highland" Tesla Model 3 began, the first owners who got their hands on the facelifted EV went on Reddit to tell the world how the car drives, how its interior looks like, and what annoying bits come with the package. The verdict: comfort is vastly improved,…

Since the introduction of its e-Power series-hybrid system seven years ago, Nissan has refined the tech and leaned on it as the path toward a fully electric future for the brand. But there isn’t a single U.S.-market model yet with this tech. What’s the holdup? Partly, it’s that Nissan has focused its hybrids toward…

A new video surfaced online showing the under-bed storage bin of the upcoming Tesla Cybertruck, and there are some details that reservation holders might love and hate. But before we get into that, I have to mention that the original source of the video is a bit of a mystery. The short clip was…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently had an opportunity to visit the Tesla Giga Berlin-Brandenburg plant in Grünheide near Berlin, Germany. Besides making some pronouncements about interior decor, Musk reportedly let on that the plant is expected to be engaged in making Tesla's next-generation, affordable electric car model. According to the Gigafactory Berlin News channel…

After months of seeing various Tesla Cybertruck images and videos in the original stainless steel color or wrapped in some fancy camouflage or design theme – even disguised as a Ford F-150 for fun – it's time for something really interesting. Or at least, timeless and classic, like all-black.  Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla's Chief…

Tesla is not to blame for a fatal crash that involved a Model Y crossover, a Chinese court ruled earlier this week, according to local outlet Shanghai Securities News, quoted by Bloomberg. The crash that happened in November of last year resulted in two deaths and three injuries after a white Model Y abruptly…

Volvo Cars USA reports that its car sales in the United States increased in October by 19 percent year-over-year to 11,296. During the first ten months of the year, sales amounted to 103,421 (up 27% year-over-year). Volvo's plug-in electric car sales outpaced this growth, but only slightly. Last month, rechargeable car sales amounted to…

EVgo follows Tesla's footsteps by introducing a prefabricated charging infrastructure to streamline deployment. The company has announced that the new prefabricated DC fast chargers are expected to cut average station installation time in half and save an average of 15 percent in station construction costs. The new design is scalable, with a starting point…