This is the 2021 Toyota Highlander hybrid, one of the few three-row SUVs you can buy with a hybrid powertrain. I’m not quite sure exactly when the three-row SUV became the American family car, but we’re firmly in that era now. The country has always liked its vehicles to be big, and the extra height […]
Enlarge / Close-up of a red stop sign after a traffic accident. The sign is heavily scratched and dented. Many vehicle accidents are attributed to drunk driving in Hawaii. Unfortunately many end up as fatalities. (credit: Kjell Linder/Getty Images) Thanks to the pandemic, Americans drove 13 percent fewer miles in 2020 than they did the […]
Enlarge / A Voyage vehicle at the Villages in Florida. (credit: Voyage) Bloomberg reports that Cruise, a self-driving company jointly owned by GM and Honda, is in talks to acquire the startup Voyage. Founded four years ago, Voyage is working to launch a self-driving taxi service at the Villages, a massive retirement community in Florida. […]
A startup called Ample has developed a new modular battery and quick swap station, and it’s just deployed the first five in the Bay Area. [credit: Ample ] On Wednesday morning in San Francisco, a startup called Ample launched its new electric vehicle battery-swap technology. It’s designed an extremely low footprint for its swap stations, […]
Enlarge / Joe Biden speaks at the White House on March 2, 2021. (credit: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images) US President Joe Biden has made the shift to electric vehicles an early focus of his administration. Days after his inauguration, he vowed to replace hundreds of thousands of federal civilian vehicles with electric versions. On Tuesday, Biden […]
This is Volvo’s next battery EV. It’s called the C40 Recharge, and it’s a fastback version of the XC40 Recharge crossover. [credit: Volvo ] Calling climate change “the greatest safety test” it needs to pass, Volvo is vowing that half the cars it sells in 2025 will be battery electric vehicles, with a model range […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) “Ironic” probably isn’t the right word to describe the lack of public information about Sergey Brin’s airship company. Who better to know the worth of staying private than one of the co-creators of a search engine that changed the world, after all. But to those who know where […]
Volkswagen says the ID.4 is as important to its future as the Beetle was to its past. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] The Volkswagen ID.4 is a big deal for its manufacturer. After getting busted six years ago for fibbing about diesel emissions, VW underwent a corporate transformation, throwing all its chips into electrification. As a […]
Enlarge / A prototype of the Nikola Tre battery electric truck. (credit: Nikola) Aspiring electric truck maker Nikola has admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission that nine statements made by founder Trevor Milton were “inaccurate.” Milton was forced to resign from Nikola in September, shortly after the falsehoods first came to light. Between 2016 and […]
Enlarge / This is a Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley school bus, built by Thomas Built Buses and equipped with an electric powertrain from Proterra. (credit: Daimler) This week’s news about the new US Postal Service truck contract, and the USPS’ decision to order 90 percent of them with internal combustion engines, has been viewed by many […]