A fast user from the Mach E Forum has managed to detect and make screenshots from the Ford website about the upcoming Mustang Mach-E. The page is now taken down but the screenshots remain to unveil some of the basic specifications of the model and its pricing. The car will have five trim levels: First Edition with est. MSRP starting at $59,900, AWD and 19" wheels, 270 miles range, 5.5 s of 0-60 mph acceleration GT...

15 November 2019

In September 2018, Lucid Motors received a $1 billion investment from the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF), which will allow it to fund the $240m cost of building the first phase of its factory in Arizona, US. However, this funding needed to be approved by the US government, which caused massive delays. It looks like the final approval has been received because Lucid Motors announced that the construction...

14 November 2019

Peugeot UK unveiled the all-electric Peugeot e-2008 SUV on June 19th. As of today, reservations for the model are active via Peugeot UK's website. The starting price of the e-2008 SUV GT Line is £32,000. The first deliveries are expected in 2020. Peugeot e-2008 packs a 50 kWh battery and a 100 kW (136 bhp) electric motor with a B mode and a D mode for re-gen. The estimated WLTP range is 310 km (193 miles). The...

14 November 2019

Today Volkswagen unveiled some more details about the electric drive at the core of the Volkswagen ID.3 and other MEB vehicles for Europe and America. The electric drive is a permanent-magnet brushless unit named "APP 310". Both the electric drive and the 1-speed gearbox are produced at the component plant in Kassel. The whole drive unit, together with the 1-speed gearbox, is compact enough to fit in a sports bag...

14 November 2019

Ford silently announced that the all-electric SUV Mustang Mach-E will be unveiled on November 17. This happened in a short press release about the speech of Ford's global director of electrification, Ted Cannis, at the Barclays 2019 Global Automotive Conference in New York on Thursday, which will be given on November 21. The speech will elaborate on the innovations in connected vehicle technology used by the Mustang...

14 November 2019

Earlier this month, Volvo announced that it will supply 157 electric buses to the city of Gothenburg in Sweden. Today, BYD announced that it will supply 130 of its battery-electric K7M buses to the Los Angeles Department of Transportation in California, USA. This is the "largest single order of battery-electric buses to date in the United States." The buses will be built at BYD's Coach & Bus factory in Lancaster...

14 November 2019

XPENG Motors - a Chinese EV manufacturer - has announced that it has received a Series C capital funding of US$400 million. The capital comes from "a group of strategic and institutional investors, bringing together an unparalleled combination of corporate and individual investors, as well as renowned private equity firms." An interesting fact here is the Xiaomi will join as a strategic investor. This company is...

14 November 2019

Volkswagen has started the construction of the Chattanooga plant extension that is meant to produce all-electric vehicles. The investment is about $800 million and will add about 1,000 jobs. The expansion includes a 564,000-square-foot addition to the body shop. At completion, Volkswagen will produce internal combustion engines and battery-electric vehicles on the same assembly line. A new 198,000-sq. ft. facility...

14 November 2019

Fisker teased again the Fisker Ocean announcing that more details about the vehicle will be unveiled on November 27th - this is when reservations for the vehicle will be open. The new teaser unveils the solar roof that "hat can give more than 1000 clean miles a year." As a comment, Mr Fisker said that they will show "a patent-pending 'California mode' closer to January 2020 reveal." The first deliveries of the...

13 November 2019

During the Tesla Shareholders Meeting in June this year, it was said that Tesla is searching for a location in Europe for a new Gigafactory - Gigafactory 4. Last night, during The Golden Steering Wheel (German: Das Goldene Lenkrad) awards ceremony, Elon Musk confirmed that the Tesla Gigafactory 4 will be built in the Berlin area and more specifically - the GVZ Berlin-Ost Freienbrink industrial park near the new...

13 November 2019

The Lexus LF-30 Electrified is a luxury all-electric concept car that was showcased at the 46th Tokyo Motor Show. However, Toyota did not unveil any specifications about the model. It said that it will unveil its first battery-electric vehicle next month. True to its words, today, Toyota said that it will announce its first battery-electric Lexus at the Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition on November 22...

11 November 2019

The Chevrolet Gala Night 2019 was held in China on November 8th. Instead of adopting the usual theatre-like style of presenting its new products, this time around the company has created a number of exhibition scenes in the SAIC-GM Chevrolet dealership store area, using the exhibition halls and maintenance workshops to create a display area that's closer to people. Guests entered the main conference venue, where the...

11 November 2019

Last week, EPA has updated its listing for electric vehicles that will be available in the US for the 2020 model year. The most noteworthy changes are three. First, the 2020 Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus gets an efficiency increase. Without a major change in the specs, only through little tweaks during 2019, this variant of the Model 3 has managed to increase its combined MPGe by 8 points - from 133 to 141 MPGe...

10 November 2019

Volkswagen has announced that the EV factory of the SAIC Volkswagen joint venture in China is completed. The facility has been built to produce vehicles based on VW's Modular Electric Drive Matrix (MEB) platform. Today, the factory started the pre-production of the first China-specific all-electric Volkswagen ID. model. Series production is scheduled for October 2020. This mysterious China-specific ID. model is said...

8 November 2019

Sila Nanotechnologies has announced that Kurt Kelty, former Tesla director of battery technology, will serve as Sila Nano's vice president of automotive. Mr Kelty is an expert in battery materials and manufacturing and is known to have played a key role in building relationships between battery manufacturers such as Tesla and Panasonic. In addition, Bill Mulligan, former SunPower executive vice president of global...

7 November 2019