#electric-vehicles

#electric-vehicles

Former Amazon Marketplace vice president Peter Faricy is the new person in charge of the company, and he started on Monday, Slate spokesperson Jeff Jablansky told TechCrunch. Most recently, Faricy had been an advisor at McKinsey and Bessemer Venture Partners. Faricy left the role at Bessemer to join Slate, according to Newsweek, which first reported the hire.

Vintage cars, especially pickups and SUVs, are usually made from two parts: a standalone chassis and a body that bolts on top of the chassis. So why not swap the original underpinnings with something more modern, while retaining the classic look of the original bodywork? That's exactly what the United Kingdom's Electric Classic Cars thought of doing, and it might just supercharge the EV conversion world.

High costs and long charge times has led to a decline in demand for electric vehicles over recent months, with news headlines reflecting this trend. But with the UK's deadline for ending the sale of petrol cars set for 2035, this certainly isn't the end for electric vehicles. Publishers will be watching out to see how this story unfolds over the coming months.

The all-electric vehicle service will allow riders to move anywhere within the city and help address cracks in the current public transit system that left students and others stranded, according to the Sunnyvale City Council, which unanimously approved the service this week.

2025-model used cars sold in the fourth quarter of last year went for $6,370 less than their average new car transaction price. That's already substantial savings, but the numbers are even better for EV and PHEV shoppers. Models like the Dodge Charger Daytona and Jeep Wrangler 4XE have truly staggering discounts after less than a year on the road.

Construction work at the Regionalbuszentrum Schaffhausen is scheduled to begin on 2 March 2026, as VBSH details on its website. Commissioning and testing are planned for mid-2027, with definitive operations starting in the third quarter of 2027. In parallel, additional overnight charging stations will be installed at the Ebnatring depot hall, with commissioning aligned to the RBZ timeline.

The Tesla Model Y has been named 2026 Drive Car of the Year overall winner, taking the top honor after being judged as the vehicle that "moves the game forward the most for Australian new car buyers." The Model Y is already Australia's best-selling EV in 2025 and the tenth best-selling vehicle overall, but the vehicle's Juniper update strengthened its case with new ownership benefits and expanded software capability.

Donald Trump will travel to China from March 31 to April 2, the White House has said, in what will be the first official visit to Beijing by a United States president since Trump's last trip there in 2017. The dates, confirmed by a White House official on Friday, come as Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have respectively described excellent and good communication between the two countries in recent months.

Then, through a series of blunders and missteps, things started to unravel. There was the fuel crisis of the 1970s, which led to an influx of Japanese imports that bested Detroit in fuel savings and reliability. And then there were various global financial collapses throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and a significant decline in automotive quality as the Big Three continued to push bigger and more expensive vehicles, at the expense of road safety and global competitiveness.

EV startup Lucid is cutting 12% of US employees, according to an email interim CEO Marc Winterhoff sent to unaffected employees on Friday, which Business Insider has seen. Winterhoff said the cuts would exclude hourly production employees in manufacturing, logistics, and quality. "This difficult but necessary decision was made to improve organisational effectiveness and optimize our resources as we continue on our path toward profitability," he wrote.

There's a lot of movement as far as electrical systems and homes and an integration with power because there's a lot more adapting with electricity in your home,

The Gravity ranks among the five most fun-to-drive cars I've ever tested. Its 123-kWh battery launches the SUV from 0 to 60 mph in about three seconds - quicker than a Ferrari Portofino. Instant torque makes it feel ferocious off the line. Steering is tight and surprisingly nimble for a long three-row SUV. Thanks to its low-mounted battery pack, the Gravity stays planted through sharp corners, masking its weight well.

"The U.S. and Europe are rather similar, and now the tariffs are okay,"

Volkswagen offer a 'round the clock' mobility guarantee, but in this case it appears not to apply if left stranded on a bank holiday weekend...

The logic behind electric vehicles benefiting public health has long been solid: More EVs means fewer internal combustion engines on the road, and a reduction in harmful tailpipe emissions. But now researchers have confirmed, to the greatest extent yet, that this is indeed what's actually happening on the ground. What's more, they found that even relatively small upticks in EV adoption can have a measurably positive impact on a community.

Farley discussed some of the tech going into the pickup, particularly the aerodynamics, a key aspect if Ford is to compete with rivals. "The team is spending countless hours getting every last drop of aero efficiency on the mid-size electric pickup," he noted. Farley also discussed the "simplified aluminum unicastings [that] condense over 146 parts into two" as a way to boost production efficiency.

Just seven new petrol cars were sold in Norway last month, data shows. The country, which is the frontrunner in the uptake of electric vehicles, shifted a record low number of new fossil-fuel cars in January, information from the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council (OFV) reveals. Only seven petrol, 29 hybrid and 98 diesel cars were registered, while more than 2,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold.

Chinese state-owned carmaker Chery is pressing ahead with its rapid UK expansion by launching a fourth brand in the British market, underlining its ambition to become a long-term player in one of Europe's most competitive automotive landscapes. The group confirmed it will introduce vehicles under the Lepas brand, a new line focused on battery-electric and hybrid SUVs aimed at younger families. While Lepas is being developed primarily with Europe in mind, the UK will be one of its early launch markets.