Covoid-19 I is impacting CES 2022, with a number of major exhibitors, including Amazon, Google, Intel, IBM, Microsoft and automakers BMW, General Motors and Mercedes-Benz, canceling their in-person presences at the Jan. 5-8 tech show in Las Vegas. But CES…
Were I in the market for a new car, the 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 would be high on my list of possibles. This is one good-looking, superbly equipped, roomy, fun-to-drive and hard-charging – but not hard to charge – EV.…
Polestar 2 Also Getting Over-the-Air Power Hike in 2022 In an early holiday present, the EPA has awarded the Polestar 2 single motor EV a 270 mile range estimate and given the Kia EV6 single motor a 310-mile estimate. Both…
Toyota unveiled plans this week to put 30 new battery electric vehicles into its Toyota and Lexus sales channels around the globe by 2030, part of a $70 billion investment in electrification. Half the new funding will go to battery-electrics…
The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV will start at just under $41,000 before incentives for a just-announced single-motor Standard Range model with a 58-kilowatt-hour battery and 220 miles of range. All other variants will use a 77.4-kWh battery that delivers…
Being first isn’t always a recipe for success, so more than a decade after it launched the first mass-produced modern EV, Nissan will try again to restore luster to its electric vehicle image with the 2023 Ariya crossover. It’s first…
Polestar is providing a pretty good advance idea of what its production Polestar 5 grand tourer will look like when it is officially unveiled in New York in December. The “5,” set to launch in 2024, is a luxury sports…
Kia, following in the footsteps of corporate big brother Hyundai, will unveil a new EV concept at the LA auto show as a preview to the company’s EV9 large electric SUV. The Concept EV9 – its name giving a clear…
Toyota says its all-electric bZ4X crossover – and it looks like the ungainly name will stick – hits dealerships in the U.S. in mid-2022. It will be the automaker’s first long-range, mass-market EV, with the single-motor version capable of delivering…
Its much-anticipated Ioniq 5 electric hatchback hasn’t hit the market yet, but Hyundai’s wasting no time; the company will show a concept version of the 2024 Ioniq 7 large SUV – the concept is just the “Hyundai Seven” – at…