Electric Cars

Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com Japan’s UBE Corporation will build an EV battery chemicals factory in Louisiana to set up a US EV battery supply chain – and compete with China. Chemical company UBE Corporation will invest $500 million to build the first US manufacturing facility for EV lithium-ion battery ingredients dimethyl carbonate (DMC)

The average price of new electric cars continued to decrease in February, thanks in no small part to Tesla, according to data from Cox Automotive. Last month, the average transaction price (ATP) for a new EV in the United States was $52,314, a decrease of 4.6% from January’s $54,863 ATP. Compared to February of last

By Zachary Visconti Posted on March 10, 2024 In recent months, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been far from the only person at the company using the X platform regularly to spread information about its products. Amidst calls for Tesla to advertise, the use of X from both executives and other employees has increased substantially

Volkswagen has canceled plans to build its all-electric ID.3 at its main factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, due to low demand, adding that “every euro that we do have to spend counts.” It will keep production at its EV-only plant, where it has been shaving off jobs for months. Volkswagen had planned to build its ID3

It’s been years since any new car debut has taken the world by storm the way the Rivian R3 and R3X did this past week. Sure, Rivian’s big event was ostensibly to show off the Rivian R2, which is set to be coming sooner. But its two smaller siblings, whose unveilings came as a total

By Zachary Visconti Posted on March 9, 2024 General Motors (GM) brand Chevrolet has begun selling the Blazer electric vehicle (EV) once again, after the automaker halted orders for over two months due to a software quality issue. In December, Chevy issued a stop-sale order on the Blazer EV, due to software issues relating to

Rivian launched the much-anticipated R2 – and the surprise R3 – on Thursday, but at the time we only saw the cars on stage, in isolation. Now video has emerged showing these cars driving on public roads, next to other cars, offering a better visual size comparison, and a look at the cars in motion in the

It’s an outcome no company wants for any product, let alone one with months of hype behind it: something new goes on sale, immediately suffers from glitches that play out in the media and has to be parked for months until a fix is found and deployed.  That’s exactly what happened nearly three months ago

By Joey Klender Posted on March 7, 2024 Today, Rivian unveiled the new, less expensive R2 electric vehicle, a more compact SUV than its R1S. It is expected to begin deliveries of the new R2 in 2026, but where it is going to be built was a question every viewer of Rivian’s live streamed event

Mate Rimac, CEO of supercar makers Rimac and Bugatti, has commented on Elon Musk’s claim that the new Tesla Roadster is going to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in less than 1 second with thrusters. He sees some problems with it. Tesla’s next-generation Roadster was first unveiled back in 2017. It was first supposed

It’s a huge day for Rivian. The EV startup unveiled not one but two upcoming models to widespread acclaim—and not a single window was broken during the course of the event. Imagine that.  InsideEVs was on the scene in California as Rivian revealed the R2 and R3, and you can check out our coverage here,

By Joey Klender Posted on March 6, 2024 SpaceX has landed on a potential date for its next Starship test flight: March 14. Starship is SpaceX’s massive rocket that will one day transport life from Earth to Mars. It has already been tested twice, with its first two Integrated Flight Tests (IFT) coming last year

Maryland-based ION Storage Systems has just hit a significant milestone with its unique solid-state batteries (SSBs). ION Storage Systems‘ anodeless and compressionless solid-state batteries successfully achieved and exceeded 125 cycles with less than 5% capacity degradation in performance. This is no small matter because this isn’t a typical solid-state battery, and this achievement means potential

Mini made a practical choice with the redesigned 2025 Countryman. It’s bigger than the old one, having grown four inches taller, an inch wider, and a whopping six inches longer front-to-back. That makes the redesigned Countryman roughly the same size as a Ford Bronco Sport. For the first time, Mini has a small SUV in

By Zachary Visconti Posted on March 4, 2024 Tesla has launched wraps for the Model 3, Model Y and Cybertruck at an additional shop location, this time outside of California On Monday, Tesla announced that it has launched wrap services for the Model 3, Model Y and Cybertruck at its Collision Austin South body shop

Tesla had to shut down Gigafactory Berlin today after a significant power outage that may have been caused by sabotage. It has been a difficult couple of weeks for Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin, the automaker’s only factory in Europe. First, it had to halt production due to supply issues amid problems with cargo ships getting through

If you’re a Volkswagen EV owner and you’re enviously looking at how Ford drivers can access Tesla’s Supercharger network, you have a little longer to wait. The Volkswagen Group will have a Tesla North American Charging Standard (NACS) adapter available for its EVs in 2025 “at the latest”, a VW spokesperson told InsideEVs. That means you’ll

By Zachary Visconti Posted on March 3, 2024 The Tesla Cybertruck that was recently sold at auction for $244,000 has now gone on sale again, this time through a Florida dealership trying to get $289,999 out of it. Porsche South Orlando purchased the Cybertruck on Manheim Auction for $244,000 last week, despite a no-resale policy