Tesla CEO announced on Friday the Model 3 had over half a million advance reservations, according to Reuters. During the event at Tesla’s Fremont, California factory, Musk showed off the $35,000 base vehicle with a range of 220 miles (350 ...
Read More »Britain To Ban Sale Of All New Diesel and Petrol Cars From 2040
The ban on vehicles running on petrol and diesel is part of plans to tackle air pollution, accelerating the push towards electric cars. The UK government is expected to announce the decision on Wednesday, according to Metro. It should be ...
Read More »Tesla Driver Changes Claim, Says Autopilot Not Responsible For Crash
According to CBS News, David Clark, 58 initially told the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office on Monday that the Autopilot software was responsible for a crash Saturday evening in Hawick, Minnesota. Clark initially told deputies that when he engaged the Autopilot ...
Read More »Elon Musk Shows First Tesla Model 3 Production Unit
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to confirm the production of “Unit 1” of Model 3 on Saturday night. According to reports, it was Ira Ehrenpreis, an investor of Tesla, who should have received this first car. But the ...
Read More »Volvo Goes All Electric From 2019
All new Volvo models delivered from 2019 will have an electric motor. Volvo is the first traditional car manufacturer to provide all its cars with an electric motor. Volvo has owned the Chinese automaker Geely since 2010. The first fully ...
Read More »New Tesla Model 3 photos leaked
The Tesla engineer driving the test vehicle didn’t seem to mind photos being taken and even mentioned that they were driving the vehicle home for the night, Teslarati reports. The Model 3 was seen with full autopilot hardware and this ...
Read More »Tesla is making a big expansion to its Supercharger network
Tesla will have more than 10,000 high-speed Supercharger electric car chargers by the end of the year, the company revealed today, a doubling of where it was at the beginning of 2017, according to The Verge. It also will expand ...
Read More »CES 2017: Faraday Future’s electric car FF 91 unveiled – video
While the Gardena, California-based company finally put an automotive face to its proposed mass-market plans, details were scant, USA Today reports. Officials said the sleek four-door would boast 1,000 horsepower produced by electric motors, and that it would begin taking ...
Read More »Ukrainian inventor builds unique DIY electric car – video
Andriy Lutsenko, an inventor from the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih created a unique two-wheeled electric car named “Bumblebee”, Joinfo.ua reports. According to Andriy, the idea to create the Bumblebee popped into his head while he was watching the wheelchair ...
Read More »Swiss students built the fastest-accelerating electric car in the world
Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) published a video today that shows “grimsel,” its electric race car, accelerating from 0–60 miles per hour in just 1.513 seconds on a runway at Dübendorf Air Base in Switzerland, the Verge reports. It’s more ...
Read More »First Ukrainian electric car prototype to be presented in Europe – video
The “Synchronous” operational prototype is a new vision of the exclusive passenger transport. It should become the ideal tourist shuttle for hotel transfers, or taxi for excursion areas. It was first presented in April at the 11th annual conference on ecological ...
Read More »ZAZ-Electro: Ukrainian engineers upgraded iconic Zaporozhets to electric car
A group of engineers and enthusiasts from Odesa, Ukraine, headed by Sergiy Velchev, converted the old ZAZ-966 (an old iconic model made in Zaporizhya car factory) into a modern electric vehicle, Joinfo.ua reports citing UAinfo. In June 2015, Odesa residents ...
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