Israel-based Zooz Power will use its flywheel technology to charge electric rental cars at New York City's LaGuardia airport. Formerly known as Chakratec, Zooz recently announced a memorandum of understanding with an unnamed car rental company to pilot flywheel energy charging at LaGuardia beginning in the second quarter of 2023. The partner rental company "is…

Ford CEO Jim Farley has embraced electric cars, and the Big Three automaker is having plenty of success in the early stages of its transition to an electric car maker. However, in order to best compete with rivals, Ford will have to tweak its plans until it figures out what works best. Farley's latest idea…

According to a recent report published by Teslarati, the US electric automaker has reduced delivery times in China to just one week in some specific cases. This could either mean that after the recent Giga Shanghai factory upgrades Tesla is cranking out cars so quickly it can now deliver them almost immediately, or the demand…

Hybrids are a great choice for reliability, according to a the latest Consumer Reports survey, with the Ford Maverick, Toyota Corolla, and Lexus NX rated among the most reliable. Hybrid cars and hybrid SUVs ranked first and third, respectively, in the nonprofit's Annual Auto Reliability Report, released Tuesday. The Maverick, Corolla, and NX all achieved…

Tesla has been very secretive about the manufacturing of its Semi electric truck, which reportedly entered production in early October at a new building near the company's Giga Nevada plant. Back then, Electrek learned that the production equipment installed at Giga Nevada would enable a production of about five electric trucks per week. That…

Toyota has unveiled the fifth-generation Prius in Europe, which comes exclusively as a plug-in hybrid in the region.  The all-new Prius Plug-in Hybrid is based on the automaker's second-generation GA-C platform of the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) that brings reduced weight and increased rigidity. The Prius Plug-in Hybrid is powered by a 2.0-liter gasoline…

You’ll be forgiven for being utterly unfamiliar with car manufacturer Ora, a subsidiary of China’s Great Wall Automotive. The company is notable for getting Fiat’s attention after making a car that the Italian firm thought looked remarkably similar to its Panda (Italian courts agreed) and more recently for striking a partnership with BMW to…

Only two weeks remain before Tesla finally starts deliveries of the Semi, a product it first showed in prototype form in December 2017. It has been a long wait of almost five years, but Tesla's electric semi truck will finally be delivered to the first customer, food and beverage giant Pepsi. The company will…

Daihatsu Motor Co., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota engaged in micro vehicles (kei cars), and CATL announced an MOU of Strategic Cooperation on battery supply and battery technologies. According to the agreement, CATL will provide a stable supply of lithium-ion EV batteries for the upcoming Daihatsu electric vehicles, which will be offered…

A Tesla shareholder aims to convince a court that CEO Elon Musk's massive pay package should be eliminated. The CEO doesn't take a real salary, rather, he has a $56 billion pay package, which he gets if he (Tesla under his leadership) succeeds at various pre-determined tasks or milestones. Basically, Musk gets permission to…