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While electric vehicles certainly offer a host of eco-friendly advantages, they’re not without some asterisks, one being the rare earth materials (and harmful mining thereof) used to make the magnets intrinsic to most automotive-grade motors. New magne… Continue reading Future GM EV motors could swap rare earth with “Clean Earth” magnets
Electric motors don’t much care whether they’re going forwards or backwards – certainly not as much as passengers tend to. So the latest Guinness World Record for Rimac’s electric Nevera hypercar is the fastest speed ever recorded in reverse.
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Tags: Electric Vehicles, Rimac Automobili, World Records, World’s Fastest, Crazy, Hypercar
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Electric school buses are hardly front page news these days, but GreenPower has charged its way onto our radar with the Mega Beast – a purpose-built 40-ft-long young people carrier with a monstrous battery bank.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, Tra… Continue reading GreenPower reveals 300-mile Mega Beast electric school bus
Hyundai has completely redone the Kona from the ground up. Still a compact, the Kona is now a bit larger to accommodate more rear-seat legroom, cargo space, and to make for a more EV-focused platform for electrification.Continue ReadingCategory: Automo… Continue reading First Drive: 2024 Hyundai Kona ahead of arrival of electric models
Lexus won’t be needing conveyor belts once the “gigacast” chassis of its next-gen electric cars is put together; the company has announced it’s introducing a “self-driving assembly line,” where cars will autonomously move between stations.Continue Read… Continue reading Next-gen Lexus EVs will self-drive around the factory for assembly
Taiwan-based e-mobility outfit Gogoro is taking its battery-swapping electric scooters out beyond the city limits with the introduction of the CrossOver SmartScooter, which the company is calling the first two-wheel SUV.Continue ReadingCategory: Urban … Continue reading Gogoro unveils battery-swapping, cargo-hauling, all-terrain e-scooter
Should you ever have wondered who invented the self-balancing “hoverboard” … well, it was a man named Shane Chen. He has now incorporated that same technology into a design for a two-wheeled electric car, appropriately named the Shane.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Hoverboard inventor reveals plans for self-balancing Shane two-wheeled EV
Back in March, Honda announced that it was looking for partners to test its rolling electric platform “designed to enhance workforce productivity and support repetitive tasks.” Now the AWV has been given inspection duties at Toronto Pearson Airport.Con… Continue reading Honda’s autonomous work vehicle goes on patrol at Toronto Pearson Airport
Electric camper vans are finally arriving in the United States, and they’re starting to look like a legitimate option for actual road travel and camping. The Tesla and SpaceX alums at Detroit startup Grounded settled for a measly 108 miles (174 km) wit… Continue reading Grounded makes wildly modular electric smart RV with 250-mile GM Zevo
Electric mobility company Smart has added a new entry level option for its compact #1 crossover model launched last year, shaving thousands of euros off the vehicle lineup’s base price by installing a smaller LPO battery.Continue ReadingCategory: Autom… Continue reading Smart cuts price, and range, for entry level #1 compact electric SUV