Enlarge / A 2021 VW ID.4, the brand’s battery-electric crossover. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Volkswagen, the world’s second-largest electric vehicle manufacturer by volume, has “sold out” of battery-powered models in the US and Europe for this year as persistent supply chain bottlenecks hit global production. The Wolfsburg-based group, which includes brands such as Porsche, Audi and […]
Enlarge / The chassis and battery pack of a Volkswagen AG (VW) ID. 5 electric sports utility vehicle (eSUV) on the assembly line during a media tour of the automaker’s electric automobile factory in Zwickau, Germany. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) The car industry’s multibillion-dollar bet on electric vehicles was built on a single premise: […]
Enlarge / Will Aibo owners feel a touch of nostalgia watching the Kia Super Bowl LVI ad? (credit: Aurich Lawson | Kia) For some people—mostly those who aren’t football fans—the commercials that accompany the Super Bowl are as important as the game itself. In 2022, we got a conflicting vision of the future—almost all the […]
Enlarge / What’s the cheapest used electric car you’d take a punt on? Let us know in the comments. (credit: Sakkawokkie/Getty Images) When you write about cars, you can expect people to ask for your advice on which car they should buy. But when the question is actually “which used car should I buy, ” […]
Enlarge / The Biden plan does not include a requirement that all new vehicles be zero-emissions at any point in the future. (credit: Richard Newstead/Getty Images) On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that by 2030, half of all new cars and light trucks should be zero-emissions vehicles—a mix of battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid EVs, […]
Enlarge (credit: Tesla / Aurich Lawson) Earlier in July, Tesla announced that it delivered 201,250 electric vehicles in the second quarter of 2021. On Monday, the US automaker filled in the rest of the gaps with its Q2 financial disclosure. Q2’s deliveries were a record for Tesla, earning the company $1.1 billion in profit. Tesla […]
The ABB New York City ePrix is a chance for Formula E to race in front of one of the most dramatic backdrops in racing: the Manhattan skyline. [credit: Glenn Dunbar / LAT Images ] Formula E, the electric car racing series, is back in Brooklyn this coming weekend. It’s the series’ first time back […]
This is a 1905 Columbia XXXV Open Drive Brougham, which won best in class for the EVs. This Edwardian monster is a twin-motor design. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] Volkswagen provided flights to Jacksonville and three nights in a hotel so we could attend the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. […]
Enlarge / “I think this might be the best-looking EV yet,” Cars Technica’s Jonathan Gitlin in 2018 about the Jaguar I-Pace. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Last week, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee—the guy who, while running for president two years ago, proposed a nationwide ban on sales of gas-powered cars by 2030—vetoed a statewide ban on gas-powered […]
Henry G. Morris and Pedro G. Salom in their 1894 Electrobat automobile, the first commercially produced electric automobile in the United States. [credit: The Outing Magazine, Volume 51, Page 210 ] If it seems that electric cars are the future of the automobile, the same was true more than a century ago. With automakers planning to […]