Author: James Bryant

Ford CEO Jim Farley said Ford would build a second electric truck after the F-150 Lightning. This was said by Jim Farley during the start of the regular production of the F-150 Lightning. The F-150 Lightning is a full-size electric pickup truck and the third EV in Ford’s entire EV portfolio after the Mustang Mach E and the commercial E-Transit van. Farley did not provide further details about the second electric pickup truck in question. But says that it will be built at BlueOval City’s $5.6 billion production facility in Stanton, Tennessee. The production facility in western Tennessee will begin…

Earlier this year Lucid revealed plans to expand to Europe in 2022. A recent report from Autocar suggested the Lucid Air could launch for markets outside North America by the middle of the year. Citing a company spokesman who asked not to be named, said Lucid would start exporting Air to Europe and the Middle East in “June or July,” followed by further expansion into China in 2023. Another employee said Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Norway will get Lucid Air first. Meanwhile, customers in the UK have to wait a little…

Tesla has been lobbying the Indian government to reduce tariffs on electric vehicles in order to expand their market in Asia. India is the fourth largest car market in the world. Tesla brought in electric vehicles from the Shanghai Giga to see demand in the world’s second most populous country. After that Tesla commits to domestic manufacturing or spends at least $500 million on domestically produced auto parts. See also: Here’s why Tesla still difficult to penetrate the Indian market Meanwhile, the Indian government said Tesla should first commit to producing their electric vehicles in India before importing them from…

Volta Trucks recently launched two smaller electric truck models for urban delivery. Both models of electric trucks are planned to start production in 2025. Volta Trucks said it will roll out a fleet of 7.5-ton and 12-ton truck test vehicles to customers in 2024. The new models will complement the Volta Zero electric truck portfolio, the 16-ton electric truck, which will begin serial production later this year, and the 18-ton model, which will enter production in 2023. See also: Volta Trucks Prepares New Variant of Volta Zero Electric Truck In February, Volta Trucks announced it received 230 million euros ($247…

Alfa Romeo is considering reviving the Mito small car in the form of an electric vehicle. The Alfa Romeo Mito itself was discontinued three years ago with an internal combustion engine. In Autocar’s report, the all-electric Mito will come in a five-door model, as opposed to the three-door version of the ICE. The platform used uses e-CMP from Stellantis, no longer using the “Fiat GM Small Platform”. By using the e-CMP platform from Stellantis, the all-electric Alfa Romeo Mito will be a cousin of the Peugeot e-208 and Opel Corsa-e which also use the platform. Vehicles using the e-CMP platform…

Hyundai has partnered with We Drive Solar, a Dutch mobility provider, to use 150 Ioniq 5 electric SUVs to create what is billed as the world’s first two-way energy system. The city of Utrecht in the Netherlands will be the venue for the collaboration between Hyundai and We Drive Solar. In the Cartesius neighborhood, 2,530 sustainable homes will be built with shared vegetable gardens, walking and bicycle routes as well as car sharing access such as the Ioniq 5 from We Drive Solar using the app. There will also be a two-way energy charging system which is the first in…

Honda is determined to develop autonomous vehicles to compete with Tesla in the global automotive market. To that end, Honda signed a memorandum of understanding with a company in Japan to develop an autonomous taxi service in Tokyo. The two companies are the Teito Motor Transport Company and Kokusai. The memorandum of understanding is to design and run a mobility program in Japan. Apart from focusing on autonomous transportation, this unit also has the additional task of dealing with urban congestion, traffic safety, and emissions. From the memorandum of understanding, it is hoped that autonomous mobility services will be launched…

In appearance, the Lexus RZ 450e carries a unique vehicle design with a driving experience assisted by advanced electrification technology. The Lexus RZ 450e has adopted a new steering control and all-wheel drive system that uses electrification technology. The existence of this technology, allows control of the vehicle in accordance with the wishes of the driver. Using a 65.6 kWh battery pack, the Lexus RZ 450e powertrain adopts two motors that can produce more power in the range of 300 hp. Lexus calls the powertrain Direct4 combined with all-wheel drive (AWD) as standard. The Lexus RZ is offered in…

Jeep has a target of 70 percent of their sales coming from electric cars by 2025. To make this happen, the profits from selling mobiles with internal combustion engines will be capital for the development of electric vehicles. Earlier this month, the car manufacturer from the United States introduced the Jeep Wagoneer L and Grand Wagoneer L. Both products are equipped with a 3,000 cc twin turbocharged V6 engine dubbed the ‘Hurricane’ which produces 510 hp and 678 Nm of torque. Jeep CEO Christian Meunier said the industry was in transition and there was still a need for a powerful…

Honda recently announced its electrification vehicle strategy by launching 30 EV models, with a target of producing 2 million units by 2030. Later, Honda’s electric cars are based on three new EV-specific architectures that are already under development. Shinji Aoyama, Honda’s Head of Electrification said that the company is developing small, medium, and large platforms specifically for EVs. The small platform will be introduced by the mini LCV for the Japanese market in 2024, followed by its additional passenger mini EV sibling. Next up is the big platform, the Honda e: Architecture that supports a full-size EV for North America…

Hyundai in the future will have technology that can more accurately recognize objects for its autonomous cars, this breakthrough aims to provide driver safety. Therefore, IonQ, the owner of the technology, announced that it is expanding its relationship with Hyundai to apply quantum computing-based technology to autonomous cars to make it easier to recognize objects in the real world. In fact, the two had collaborated earlier this year, in which quantum IonQ technology was used to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of Hyundai’s electric vehicle (EV) batteries. IonQ hopes that applying quantum machine learning to in-vehicle computer vision systems will…

One FedEx driver in a BrightDrop Zevo 600 electric van has won the Guinness World Records award for the longest distance from New York City to Washington D.C. on a single charge. Coinciding with the commemoration of Earth Day 2022, the man named Stephen Marlin successfully completed a nearly 260 mile (480 km) journey on a single charge driving a BrightDrop Zevo 600. Travis Katz, President and CEO of BrightDrop said that since its inception, the Zevo 600 electric van has been a record-breaking vehicle. “Now we see firsthand what BrightDrop can do by pairing our zero-emissions technology with FedEx…