April 2022

Driving a battery-powered commercial panel van may not sound exciting to you—but to Mercedes-Benz and the likes of Amazon and UPS, it promises to be a bellwether moment. As the Mercedes engineer driving me for a short stint in the prototype eSprinter suggests, there’s very little difference between this box van and the gas- and… […]

Like Nothing Else On the Road Which 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup truck do you want to own? The one in WTF mode (Watts To Freedom in GM’s sanitized parlance) that takes the 9,200-pound pickup 0-60 mph in three seconds? Or the one that, with all-wheel steering, delivers a completely different off-road experience from a

In Texas, at the official opening of Tesla’s gigantic Austin factory, CEO Elon Musk had a clear message Thursday night: It’s going big. “This year is all about scaling up, and next year there’s going to be a massive wave of new products,” summed Musk, who hit one boast point after another at Giga Texas.

The goal is to achieve a cost of $75 per kWh at the pack level by the fiscal year 2028. $65 per kWh thereafter. Source: InsideEVs – Articles Read More

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft have successfully begun the first all-private astronaut mission to an orbital space station Following a string of delays from late 2021, February 2022, March 2022, and the first week of April 2022, Axiom-1 lifted off as planned on April 8th, 2022, successfully carrying four private astronauts

Mercedes-Benz officially opened its new €200 million Electric Software Hub at the Mercedes Technology Center (MTC) in Sindelfingen, a city in South Germany. The Hub, which aims to accelerate the German automaker’s transition to electrification, will combine numerous software, hardware, system integration, and testing functions under one roof, intensifying Mercedes-Benz’s approach to cross-functional collaboration. The

The last time these two companies collaborated, we got the now legendary McLaren F1. Source: InsideEVs – Articles Read More

Will the R1T remain a top choice when other electric pickup trucks come to market? Source: InsideEVs – Articles Read More

Ford announced it has officially started shipping production units of its all-electric E-Transit van to customers across Europe, aligning with its goals to electrify its business globally. The Detroit-based Ford, who recently separated its electric and combustion engine businesses into separate divisions, said the E-Transit vans built at its Otosan Factory in Kocaeli, Turkey, are