#electric-vehicles

#electric-vehicles

Let's begin with a birds-eye view. Progress has been better than many imagined, but also too slow to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. By the end of 2024, on average about 13.5 percent of all the low-emissions technologies required for 2050 had been deployed. This was a few percentage points more than two years earlier. But it was also roughly half of what is needed to keep warming "well below" 2°C.

Mazda Motor Corp. rolled out a new, flatter version of its logo at the Japan Mobility Show 2025 in October that did away with the dimensional, beveled silver chrome effect the logomark used to have in favor of a solid black line. The new M mark is more angular, too, evoking a pair of wings that was first introduced in 1997. The company says it designed the flat new logo for improved visibility, especially in digital environments. That also makes it late to the party.

"There are too many entrepreneurs, too many engineers, and too much desire for local governments to support local champions," he said. "Brutal competition has produced many of China's successes, for example, in solar and electric vehicles. It is also a reason for many of these industries to have low profits," he added.

"You're going to see, obviously, a pullback given that the federal incentives have come off, but I think you're going to see gradual growth in the EV market,"

While most details about Ferrari's Elettrica EV, including its appearance and price, remain a mystery ahead of a planned launch in the spring of 2026, the company said it will go from 0 to 62 miles per hour in 2.5 seconds; have a battery with a capacity of 122 kWh to ensure recharging in as little as eight minutes; and boast a range of 323 miles on one charge. In other words, the company is promising the kind of excellence aficionados expect from Ferrari, beloved since 1947 when it started making cars renowned for their beauty, slick engineering and mind-boggling speed, both on streets and racetracks.

The mission of the industry group is to rapidly accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles. One of the ways Veloz is trying to get that done is by highlighting the benefits. "The average person can save around $2,000 a year on gas, and this provides consumers with about $166 in savings per month," Boone said. Those savings depend on how much and how far you drive.

Eilyan Bitar, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in Cornell Engineering; the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics; and Ayshwarya Subramanian, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, are recipients of funding from Phase II of the Bezos Earth Fund's AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge.

Both J.D. Power and S&P Global Mobility estimate that October's EV market share plummeted to around 5% in the U.S., from a record high of over 12% in September. The battery-powered share of sales also dropped significantly on a year-over-year basis, from over 8% in October 2024. The last time EVs made up 5% of U.S. vehicle sales was in early 2022. According to S&P Global Mobility, some 64,000 new electric vehicles were sold in October.

Campaigners including Tanni Grey-Thompson have warned that disabled drivers are at risk of being locked out of the electric car transition because of inaccessible chargers. The former Paralympics champion and the Electric Vehicle Association England are pushing for the government to introduce standards to ensure chargers are easy to reach. The number of public chargers across the UK is rising rapidly, with 17,400 two an hour installed in the year to July. However, the lack of standards means that disabled drivers have often been unable to trust that they can use them.

For most of its short life, my Tesla Model 3 has aged beautifully. Since I bought the car, in 2019, it has received a number of new features simply by updating its software. My navigation system no longer just directs me to EV chargers along my route-it also shows me, in real time, how many plugs are free. With the push of a button, I can activate "Car Wash Mode," and the Tesla will put itself in neutral and disable the windshield wipers.

BMW has received over 3,000 orders for the new iX3 in Germany alone. The first deliveries in Europe are expected in the spring of 2026, with the U.S. following later in the summer. The BMW iX3 is built in an all-new factory in Hungary with a production capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year. BMW has poured all of its electric vehicle know-how into the upcoming iX3, making it its most advanced EV by far.

"I write in the book that I thought it was a big mistake to not invite Elon Musk when we did a big EV event," she told Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell.

For The Verge's exclusive tour of these secretive labs, I watch researchers peer at cell chemistries down to the atomistic level, using electron microscopes. Others work at a larger scale, all the way up to the Megashaker. Inside a cavernous hall, an enormous sliding test chamber envelops one of GM's double-stacked, 205-kilowatt-hour battery packs - the type that powers hulking models like the Cadillac Escalade IQ.