Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric pickup has managed to capture a high rate of customers who hadn’t considered an electric vehicle before, with EV newbies making up nearly 80% of reservation-holders. And as Ford CEO Jim Farley underscored this week in a quarterly financial call, there’s room to do that again in the near future with

The Squad Solar electric microcar is a brand-new vehicle that’s the brainchild of two former Lightyear employees. And it’s a rather interesting proposition in the increasingly crowded urban runabout vehicles category, where the Citroen Ami, Microlino, and City Transformer are trying to make a name for themselves. Admittedly, all of the models mentioned earlier are

You can’t build millions of EVs annually without access to enough battery cells, and those cells aren’t coming quickly enough due to a lack of mining and refining. Elon Musk has already made it clear that Tesla may get into the battery materials business, and the company already has some plans underway. Now it appears

Mazda North American Operations reports that its vehicle sales in the United States, increased in April by 7.5 percent year-over-year to 32,351. During the first four months of the year, the company sold 120,735 units, which is also 7.5 percent more than a year ago. In other words, the Japanese brand is doing relatively well

Italian bicycle label Cipollini is known as a performance-oriented boutique bike brand. Founded by pro cyclist Mario Cipollini, the brand has a new electric gravel bike, marking its second foray into the world of electrified bicycles. It’s called the Fybra GX, and if you’re able to stomach the bike’s $16,300 price tag, you could get

In April, new passenger car registrations in the United Kingdom increased by almost 12 percent year-over-year to 132,990, which means the ninth successive month of growth. After four months of 2023, the total number of new registrations amounted to 627,250 (up 16.9 percent). Meanwhile, plug-in electric car sales accelerated, reaching the highest year-over-year rate of

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Toyota “has been the laggard” on electrifying its U.S. lineup, but is now “fully committed,” White House senior advisor John Podesta said in an interview with Reuters published Tuesday. Podesta said he met with senior officials from the automaker, including chief scientist Gill Pratt, who is one of the executives who even around the time

This is the same engine currently being used by corporate cousin brand Jeep, so it makes sense for it to receive additional use. If the new inline-six is indeed coming to the 1500 full-size truck, then it could replace the aging 5.7-liter Hemi V8 which is rated at 395 horsepower and 410 lb-ft of torque.