Photo: Honda Honda and Acura EVs will gain access to Tesla’s Supercharger network this coming spring, according to Honda – though the brands are still missing from Tesla’s “coming soon” page. On Monday, Tesla updated its Supercharger “coming soon” page, adding several brands to the list of cars that will soon be able to charge at
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Tesla is now claiming that Cybertruck was the ‘best-selling electric pickup in US’ last year despite not even reporting the number of deliveries. There’s a lot of context needed here. As we often highlighted, Tesla is sadly one of, if not the most, opaque automakers regarding sales reports. Tesla doesn’t break down sales per model
We had a feeling it was coming soon. Toyota is moving away from its “bZ” naming system for EVs with plans to use names you may already be familiar with. The bZ4X will likely be the only electric car Toyota sells globally under the old system. Toyota will use old names for new EVs The
President Trump’s nominee for head of the Department of Transport, Sean Duffy, has signaled imposing potential extra fees for electric vehicles and said that he plans to let NHTSA continue its investigation into Tesla’s advanced driver assist systems. Duffy is going through his U.S. Senate hearing today. The former lawmaker and lobbyist is one of
Photo: Leeward Renewable Energy A group of Oklahoma solar farms collectively generating a whopping 724 megawatts (MW) will power Google’s data center operations and artificial intelligence (AI) with long-term power purchase agreements. Leeward Renewable Energy announced that the solar farms are strategically sited to support Google’s operations and bolster Oklahoma’s grid. Construction has begun on
Elon Musk complains that Tesla is not getting subsidies for its electric truck chargers while calling for the end of electric vehicle subsidies in the US. Earlier this week, the Biden administration released the last round of funding for electric vehicle charging stations before the President leaves office. Tesla has been trying to secure part
American Honda shared a business outlook for 2025 during a recent briefing with the media. In terms of electrification, the next 12 months for Honda will be much of the same: facelifting tried-and-true ICE models like the CR-V and Passport. However, there was one exciting piece of news from Honda on the BEV front—the automaker
A new report states that Tesla will pause part of new Model Y production at Gigafactory Shanghai for 3 weeks to upgrade the lines. The shutdown will extend beyond the regular Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year is technically 2 weeks long, but the official holiday lasts a week, during which significant parts of
On today’s episode of Quick Charge, we look into a new study revealing that Toyota outspends all other automakers when it comes to funding climate change denying politicians and Fred accuses Elon of misrepresenting the data behind Full Self Driving (again). We’ve also got word that the recently redesigned Tesla Model Y is being built in
Toyota has been revealed as the largest auto industry funder of climate deniers in US Congress, according to a report released today by Public Citizen. Toyota is the largest automaker in the world, having occasionally competed for that title with Volkswagen. It sells more gas-powered, polluting vehicles than any other company on Earth, and thus,
Hyundai and Kia set a new record, shipping nearly 708,000 electrified cars from Korea in 2024. With over 68,000 exports, the IONIQ 5 was Hyundai’s hottest-selling EV overseas. Hyundai IONIQ 5 drives new EV export record in 2024 Since launching in February 2021, Hyundai’s electric SUV has continued winning over buyers around the world. With
Tesla has confirmed that it is starting production of the new Model Y with a refreshed design at Gigafactory Berlin, but it hasn’t yet opened orders for it. Last week, Tesla unveiled the new Model Y in China and started taking orders in the country and a few other markets that Tesla supplies with its
EVs need a place to charge, even in the most remote areas. Subaru helped install a public EV charging station in the “remotest place in the world.” To test it out, the Subaru Solterra was shipped to the island of St Helena. Check out the video below. Subura Solterra tests the most remote public EV
Hot on the heels of Kia being added to Tesla’s “coming soon” page for Supercharger access, we’re now learning that Supercharger support won’t actually come nearly as soon as expected for Kia – with a delay of weeks or months before Kia owners can plug in at North America’s largest fast charging network. Earlier today,
Elon Musk is praising data that he claims shows Tesla is on the verge of achieving unsupervised Full Self-Driving, when in fact, it shows it is still years away and he is misrepresenting it. It’s hard to take Musk seriously when it comes to self-driving timelines because he has been so consistently wrong for years.
Photo: @teslacharging/X The Biden administration awarded $635 million in EV charger grants just 10 days before Donald Trump takes office, leaving just $700,000 of the $2.5 billion from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law unallocated. The grants from Biden’s zero-emission refueling infrastructure programs will fund 49 projects that will deploy more than 11,500 EV charging ports
The rugged new electric SUV will be here before you know it. Jeep is fast-tracking Recon EV production as it prepares for an upcoming launch. Here’s what to expect from Jeep’s new electric SUV inspired by the legendary Wrangler. Just as Jeep’s first global electric SUV, the Wagoneer S, is arriving at US dealers, the
Tesla has reportedly received 50,000 orders for the new Model Y with an updated design in about 24 hours, according to a new report in China. Last week, Tesla unveiled the mid-cycle refresh of the Model Y in China and a select few markets supplied by Tesla’s factory in Shanghai. Deliveries are expected to start
A company managed to wrap a Tesla Cybertruck with solar cells that power an on-board battery pack. It costs about $10,000. Is it worth it? In 2017, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he pushed his engineers to look into integrating solar cells on Model 3, but they concluded that it wasn’t worth it at the
Tesla unveiled its new Model Y with a refreshed design in China and many pointed out that it looks remarkably similar to Xpeng’s P7, which is funny because Xpeng itself was a Tesla copycat at its inception. It goes full circle. Henry Xia, who founded Xpeng in 2014, admitted openly that he was influenced by