Enlarge / Moving from front- to mid-engined was quite a change for Corvette fans—now we’ll see how they respond to a hybrid version. (credit: Chevrolet) On Monday, General Motors President Mark Reuss used LinkedIn to confirm one of the worst-kept secrets in Detroit: There will be a hybrid Chevrolet Corvette on sale next year. Reuss […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson) Earth Day is April 22nd, and its usual message—take care of our planet—has been given added urgency by the challenges highlighted in the latest IPCC report. This year, Ars is taking a look at the technologies we normally cover, from cars to chipmaking, and finding out how we […]
Enlarge / BMW styling is often divisive, and the new 7 Series will be no exception. (credit: BMW) BMW provided a night in a hotel in New York so we could see the new i7 at an embargoed reveal. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. A few years ago, BMW told us about its […]
Enlarge / So far, this is as much detail about its first battery EV as Lincoln has teased us with. (credit: Lincoln) Lincoln has been Ford’s luxury brand for almost exactly a century now—the Blue Oval bought the Lincoln Motor Company from Henry Leland on February 4, 1922. Now the brand is getting ready for […]
Enlarge / This is Kia’s distinctively styled EV6, a new electric crossover that’s one of the best we’ve tested. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Kia provided two nights in a hotel and a flight from San Francisco to Washington DC so we could drive the new EV6. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. HEALDSBURG, Calif. —Remember […]
Enlarge / Hyundai’s Namyang R& D center in 2003. (credit: Hyundai) Last year was challenging for many reasons, but 2021 wasn’t entirely bad. Despite the pandemic and the chip shortage, it was a great year for new battery electric vehicles. So much so that more than half of our top 10 drives of the year […]
Enlarge / BrightDrop delivers five of 500 electric light commercial vehicles to FedEx, the first customer to receive the EV600s. (credit: FedEx) At the beginning of the year, General Motors CEO Mary Barra announced that the company was starting a new business . It’s called BrightDrop, and it’s focused on providing electrified products for delivery […]
Enlarge / Hyundai’s striking new Ioniq 5 EV was worth the wait. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Hyundai provided flights to San Diego and two nights in a hotel so we could drive the particular Ioniq 5. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. SAN DIEGO—In 2020, Hyundai Motor Group revealed it had developed a new platform, […]
Enlarge / Porsche’s newest electric car variant is the $133,300 Taycan GTS Sport Turismo. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Porsche provided flights to Los Angeles and two nights in a hotel so we could drive the Taycan GTS Sport Turismo and the sedan that we wrote about two weeks ago. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. […]
Enlarge / More than one in five new Volvos is a plug-in hybrid, putting the automaker well on its path to an entirely electric range by 2030. (credit: Volvo) In 2017, Volvo became one of the first automakers to pivot strongly toward electrified vehicles. More recently, it announced that by mid-decade, it wants half of […]