The cheapest Lexus RZ300e can be bought for as little as $43,975, including the destination fee.  The new base model trim is called "Standard" and will be available in both the FWD-only RZ300e and AWD RZ450e.  All Lexus RZ trims got a price cut for 2025.  Toyota and Lexus are bound and determined to make something…

A new study by automotive research firm iSeeCars puts Tesla at the top of the list of automakers with the most frequent occupant fatalities. Both the Model Y and Model S are several times more susceptible to fatal accidents than an average car or SUV. Teslas have top crash safety ratings from the Insurance Institute…

US President-Elect Donald Trump has reportedly expressed a desire to kill the IRA's $7,500 plug-in vehicle tax credit. The Inflation Reduction Act has incentivized companies to invest in a North American-based EV supply chain.  Tesla supports removing the EV tax credit.  The incoming Trump Administration has been remarkably inconsistent on, well, practically everything, but the…

The incoming Trump administration will prioritize eliminating the $7,500 federal EV tax credit, a move that has the support of Tesla, Reuters reported Thursday. Nixing the EV tax credit is being discussed by Trump's transition team as part of broader tax legislation, according to the report, which cited two anonymous sourced familiar with the matter.…

Donald Trump is only the second president in U.S. history to get elected for nonconsecutive terms. And he may be the first voted into the country’s highest office under the assumption that he would not follow through on his wildest campaign promises.  The President-elect seems to be sticking to at least one goal so far:…

Patent enables higher charge rates from lower-voltage DC fast chargers Solution adds a series of relay switches and a capacitor It's a smart workaround for Tesla V3 Superchargers, which can't charge at 800 volts Stellantis is working on hardware to boost the output of low-power DC fast-chargers for electric vehicles that can handle that extra…

The news of the potential death of the consumer credits for electric vehicle sales is sending shockwaves across the U.S. auto industry. Share prices of EV makers, including Tesla, are plummeting, incumbent federal officials are ringing alarm bells and automakers are bracing for the incoming Trump administration with leadership changes within their organizations to better…

Jaguar has finally provided a glimpse of the first of what the automaker claims will be a full lineup of electric vehicles. The automaker on Thursday showed a heavily camouflaged of a four-door grand tourer, sporting an exaggerated hood and fastback-like profile—likely with a liftgate rather than a trunklid at the rear. It will be…

A lot of electric cars on the market have something called vehicle-to-load (V2L). It means power can be exported from the high-voltage battery, transforming the car into a mobile generator. In Australia, a company has launched a pilot program where owners of V2L-equipped EVs can go out and help people in areas that were hit…

Insurance claims suggest EVs are in different types of lower-speed crashes EVs are more likely to be rear-ended, less likely to have front-end damage Combustion vehicles and EVs are full-loss totaled at about the same rate EVs are more often involved in different kinds of collisions than internal-combustion cars, data from Mitchell International show, with…