October 2022

2024 Polestar 3 starts at $85,300, expected 300-mile EPA range

Polestar on Wednesday revealed the 2024 Polestar 3, which is a significant stage in the evolution of the Swedish EV brand. It’s scheduled to go on sale in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2023, starting at $85,300 with destination. The brand’s first SUV, the Polestar 3 is twinned with Polestar parent Volvo’s […]

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Lucid launches its biggest OTA update yet with ‘hundreds’ of new features

Lucid announced this morning it had launched Lucid UX 2.0, its most extensive and biggest software update, which packs “hundreds of updates and new features for every Lucid Air on the road.” Designed as a “true software-defined vehicle,” Lucid says the Air will benefit vastly from the array of new improvements. Including new features like

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EU to discuss ‘discriminatory’ Inflation Reduction Act with U.S. officials this week

European Union (EU) officials are set to discuss the “discriminatory” Inflation Reduction Act with the U.S. this week, hoping to gain access to potential tax breaks or subsidies for European-built vehicles that are only available to automakers that build their vehicles in North America. EU officials have called the Inflation Reduction Act discriminatory because it

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Mercedes Benz, Stellantis part of huge JV for European battery production

Mercedes Benz, Stellantis, Siemens, and TotalEnergies have agreed to a joint venture to construct three gigafactories in Europe to aid electric vehicle manufacturing. Since the recent European energy crisis, electric vehicles have grown in demand from consumers, corporations, and even governments. And this deal, worth roughly 7 billion euros ($6.79 billion), looks to address that.

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Cadillac implements new material to make Lyriq 80% quieter

A new material used in the Cadillac Lyriq and made by Ascend Performance Materials is designed to make electric vehicles 80% quieter. Noise Vibration and Harshness (NVH) material has long been used in the automotive industry to limit the factors that make up its name; noise, vibration, and harshness. Automakers can make their vehicles significantly

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Tesla is “a solution to the economy” Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood says

Tesla “is a solution to the economy,” Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood said in an interview with Yahoo! Finance today. Wood noted that innovation will help solve the problems with supply chain issues as well as the food and energy crisis. “There’s been an accelerated consumer preference towards electric vehicles, like Tesla, because of oil

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Royal Caribbean’s first solar powered cruise terminal will have 8 EV charging stations

The Royal Caribbean Group’s first solar-powered cruise terminal will have eight EV charging stations. The cruise line plans to open the world’s first zero-energy cruise terminal at the Port of Galveston in Texas on November 9. The new cruise terminal will generate 100% of its energy from 30,000 square feet of on-site photovoltaic solar panels.

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