Electric Cars

The Tesla Model 3 remains one of the most popular EVs on sale, but which trim level makes the most sense to buy? YouTuber Bearded Tesla Guy outlined his thoughts in his latest video. He first discussed his own situation. He’s looking to buy a new Model 3, and is open to all three options:

By Simon Alvarez Posted on May 29, 2022 Tesla recently rolled out an update to its vehicles’ navigation system that makes energy consumption calculations incredibly accurate. The update was released as part of software version 2022.16.0.2.  Prior to the update, Tesla’s navigation system predicted a vehicle’s energy usage using data like distance, elevation changes, and

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CATL will be supplying BMW with cylindrical lithium-ion battery cells for electric vehicles, starting from 2025. This interesting news was announced by CATL (via Reuters), which has confirmed the signing of an agreement with BMW, but without elaborating on it. We guess that details will be announced later by BMW itself. “Chinese battery giant CATL

By Joey Klender Posted on May 27, 2022 Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) said it would begin supplying German automaker BMW with cylindrical battery cells for its next generation of electric vehicles beginning in 2025. CATL said it had signed an agreement with BMW “in which it is nominated as the supplier of the cylindrical

According to a report out of China, EV automaker NIO is hiring a number of positions related to manufacturing vehicles in the US. The recruitment descriptions suggest the Chinese automaker intends to begin planning and erecting EV production facilities on US soil that may begin with either complete knock down (CKD) or semi-knock down (SKD)

With an excellent 2021 fresh in the company’s memory, with its nearly 1-million vehicles delivered and over $50-billion in revenue, Tesla has now shot up the Fortune 500 list which ranks companies every year purely based on how much money they made. Tesla has been climbing the ladder each year but it has now made

By Joey Klender Posted on May 26, 2022 Tesla CEO Elon Musk is being sued by Twitter shareholders for stock price manipulation, a complaint said as his $44 billion bid to take over the social media platform moves forward. Twitter is also named as a defendant in the complaint, but the plaintiffs are not seeking

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Buick China has dropped two teaser photos of an upcoming all-electric concept vehicle named Electra-X, the brand’s first electric SUV concept developed on GM’s Ultium platform. The new design study could be a more production-ready follow-up to the Buick Electra Concept from 2020, at least judging by the name and the fact it’s an electric SUV.

By Maria Merano Posted on May 24, 2022 Tesla started rolling out its 2022.16.0.2 over-the-air update. The update includes navigation energy prediction, blended brakes, improvements to driver profiles, and Supercharger wait times. Teslascope first detected the 2022.16.0.2 update rollout on a 2019 Model 3 Performance in New South Wales, Australia. Since then, a few more Tesla

Nissan announced a partnership with Pole to Pole founder and adventurer, Chris Ramsey, to drive a custom-built Ariya from the Magnetic North Pole down to the South Pole. The nearly 17,000-mile trip will be made by Ramsey and a team behind the wheel of a Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE – the first vehicle to complete such

Jay Leno received a special guest recently at his garage, Ford Motor Company’s CEO Jim Farley. The Blue Oval’s big boss came around to show Jay the company’s most recent electric vehicle, the F-150 Lightning. The first thing Jay wanted to know was how hard was the F-150 Lightning to sell to the bean counters

By Simon Alvarez Posted on May 23, 2022 Rivian’s planned Georgia facility, which is expected to create about 7,500 jobs and produce up to 400,000 EVs annually, is becoming a critical political issue among Republican candidates ahead of their primary next week.  In recent comments, Donald Trump-backed David Perdue cited Rivian’s plant as a crucial

Elon Musk told reporters in Brazil that Tesla will have self-driving cars without the need for human drivers behind the wheel for supervision or at all really around this time next year. It’s Musk’s latest timeline on Tesla’s full self-driving effort, but he has been wrong about those in the past. The Tesla CEO was

The Rivian R1T has demonstrated exceptional off-road capabilities as well as fantastic on-road manners, at least as far as pickup trucks are concerned. Early customer reports have been overwhelmingly positive and it seems that Rivian’s biggest problem appears to be the inability to quickly scale up production to meet orders.  However, we haven’t really had

By Simon Alvarez Posted on May 20, 2022 Federal Judge James Donato from California has formally dismissed a securities fraud and defamation lawsuit filed by a Tesla bear against CEO Elon Musk, Tesla, and a Model 3 owner. The order was filed on Thursday.  In the order, Judge Donato noted that the lawsuit filed by

I’ll admit it – things have gotten pretty weird and wild in this column in the past. But while vehicles like electric submarines, backyard trains, and party buses shaped like tigers all have a certain indescribable charm to them, this week’s electric vehicle stretches the limits of what you could reasonably call “a vehicle.” But