Electric car dealership opens in Colorado Springs
SOUTHERN COLORADO — Phil Long of Colorado Springs is paving the way to bring more electric car options to the state. The first electric and hybrid dealership in southern Colorado celebrated their grand opening Thursday. Colorado Springs in leading the…
Rivian community, ELMS electric van, Foxconn, Fisker, and Lordstown: Today’s Car News
Rivian is selling direct, like Tesla, but aiming for community. The plant that built generations of Hummers is now making Chinese electric vans. And could the maker of the iPhone produce both Lordstown Motors’ electric pickup and a future Fisker EV in…
Rolls-Royce Finally Goes Fully Electric With a Striking New Car
Prestigious and profligate ultra-luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce just announced that it would produce its first fully electric vehicle. Named, like most of Rolls’ cars, for something haunting and ghastly (Shadow, Wraith, Phantom, etc.), it will be known as…
Taiwan’s Foxconn iPhone Maker Buys Failing Lordstown Ohio Electric Truck Plant
Formerly American Owned Lordstown Motors SEE ALSO: EV’s Are Only Built On Wall Street ABC News reported that the agreement with Lordstown gives Foxconn a sprawling manufacturing site where GM built cars for more than 50 years before closing the…
Rivian’s New R1T Electric Truck Makes Off-Roading Feel Like a Grocery Run
It’s a steep climb up Wise Mountain. At more than 12,000 feet above sea level, the trail that ascends the tree line in the midst of the Rocky Mountains is one of the highest in Colorado. Most gasoline-powered cars here would be wheezing for air, much…
How Tenn. became the top electric car producer in the south
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The Ford Motor Company’s “Blue Oval City” project in West Tennessee is officially the largest in state history. The automaker plans to add a manufacturing facility that will make all electric Ford-F150s along…
Rolls Royce announces fully electric car for late 2023
Rolls-Royce on Wednesday announced its first fully electric car, the “Spectre”, will be available in late 2023, the luxury BMW group brand adding that all its vehicles will be electric by 2030. “This is not a prototype. It’s the…
Hyundai and Tesla electric cars safer than Ford Mustang Mach-E … for moose?
Who knew mustangs were a natural enemy of moose? The Ford Mustang Mach-E fared poorly during a recent “moose test” in Sweden, which simulates a vehicle’s ability to make quick evasive maneuvers if something steps in front of it on the…
Luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce to go fully electric by 2030
© Provided by Business Today Luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce to go fully electric by 2030 In nine years, Rolls-Royce will stop selling vehicles that run on petrol, Chief Executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös said on Wednesday. Rolls-Royce will be joining other…
Electric Cars Have Hit an Inflection Point
One sign EVs are no longer the auto industry’s neglected stepchild? Norway could sell its last gas-powered car as soon as next year. Bill Pugliano / Getty This is an excerpt from The Atlantic’s climate newsletter, The Weekly Planet. Subscribe today. One…