Tesla is discontinuing its 75 kWh battery pack for Model S and Model X starting next week, which will significantly increase the base price of the automaker’s two flagship vehicles. more…
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Month: January 2019
Elon Musk hints at Tesla Roadster’s “hovering” abilities in SpaceX package
Tesla CEO Elon Musk might not think too highly of flying cars, but hopping and hovering cars? Apparently, it may just be fair game. Oh, and you also need a next-generation Roadster with a SpaceX option package to do that. Responding with a tweet comment in a thread lauding Tesla’s impressive technology improvements over the years, the […]
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Elon Musk Says New Tesla Roadster Will Fly
I believe it can fly Elon Musk released a new message “The new Roadster will actually do something like this” with an attached animation of a futuristic (“Back To The Future”) vehicle with some kind of rocket boosters (who needs wheels these days anyway?). It seems that the Rocket Boosters package, hinted at earlier this […]
Nissan denies reports, rumors that LG is a cell supplier for the LEAF battery
Over the past year or two there has been widespread speculation that when Nissan announced a new 60-something kWh battery upgrade it would rely on cells from LG. Not true. Nissan executives told Electric Revs yesterday that the new LEAF… Read More ›
Here Is The Nissan LEAF e+ 62 kWh Battery: Video
It could be the best Nissan battery pack ever The new Nissan LEAF e+ brings significant improvement in battery capacity (62 kWh) and range (up to 364 km / 226 miles EPA). According to what we know so far, Nissan uses lithium-ion cells from AESC, which are already used to produce modules and packs at the […]
Is The Tesla Model S Really A Robot Killer?
All your PR stunts are belong to us. Tesla is in trouble again. This time, we’re told, a Model S was in full-self-driving (FSD) mode in Las Vegas when it picked up a passenger and then promptly ran over a robot belonging to a company called Promobot. We are led to believe that this one robot had […]
Tesla Roadster is going to be able to hover over the ground, says Elon Musk
Elon Musk has been making some crazy claims about the next generation Tesla Roadster, but now he is topping them off with a claim that it will actually be able to hover over the ground. more…
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Porsche looks to take on Tesla Model X, Jaguar I-PACE with all-electric SUV
With companies like Tesla opening the path for other carmakers to make the jump towards full electrification, several noteworthy electric vehicles from the auto industry’s prominent players are expected to be released in the next few years. Among these is a vehicle that Porsche is working on — an all-electric SUV aimed at competing with […]
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In 2018 BMW Group Sold Over 25,000 Plug-In Electric Cars In U.S.
530e iPerformance become BMW’s star in China and now also in the U.S. BMW Group (BMW and MINI) barely increased plug-in car sales in the U.S. last month to 2,774 (up 2.0% year-over-year), but the overall share in total volume remains 7.5%. The result for the full year of 2018 exceeds 25,000 at a growth […]
Driving 700 Miles in The Hyundai Kona Electric
Car fares reasoonably well, but about that charging infrastructure… On paper, the Hyundai Kona Electric is a decent vehicle road trip vehicle. Packing a 64-kWh battery that promises 258 EPA-rated miles, the time spent driving between charging stops should be rather long. But, how does this translate into real-world road tripping? The folks at Autocar piled into […]
