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China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited, better known as CATL, one-upped its battery-making competitors with the reveal of the Shenxing Plus lithium iron phosphate (LFP) unit. Showcased during this year’s Beijing Auto Show, CATL’s new LFP battery system is capable of providing up to 370 miles of driving range after a 10-minute top-up, while the […]

In its quarterly earnings call this week, Ford reported significant losses on EVs—but still promised lower-priced models. As reported by CNN, Ford said its EV unit lost $1.3 billion in the first quarter, or $132,000 for each of the roughly 10,000 EVs sold by the automaker during that period. Sales were down 20% from a

The whole plan, it must be said, had the best of intentions. American rental car giant Hertz saw the way the car market was going and decided to invest in building the largest electric vehicle rental fleet in North America back in 2021. That meant hundreds of thousands of EVs from Tesla, General Motors, Kia,

On Tesla’s latest earnings call, Elon Musk made it abundantly clear that self-driving cars and other forays into artificial intelligence will be the automaker’s main focus going forward. Sure, he talked a bit about the mysterious new models Tesla plans to release next year, but he declined to elaborate on those plans when pressed. It

The Cybertruck is Tesla‘s first consumer EV that supports bidirectional charging. The EV maker calls the feature Powershare and it basically means that the truck’s roughly 123-kilowatt-hour battery pack can be used to power tools and appliances, charge other EVs and even provide backup power to an entire house if the grid goes down. To

An electrified successor to the Mazda 6 mid-size sedan goes on sale in China later this year, but prospects for the U.S. are unclear. Unveiled at the 2024 Beijing auto show, the Mazda EZ-6 combines the Japanese automaker’s signature design flair with powertrain tech from Changan Automobile, Mazda’s Chinese partner. Mazda hasn’t confirmed sales plans

The comparatively high purchase price of electric vehicles is still one of the main pain points of getting into one, but if you live in Washington State you’re in for some very good news. Starting this August, the Washington State Department of Commerce will offer up to $9,000 in instant rebates toward the lease of