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Lectron is producing 12,000 NACS to CCS adapters per week, the company said on Tuesday. The adapters will allow non-Tesla EV owners access to more than 2,400 Tesla Supercharger stations in the U.S. that house more than 28,400 charging ports, as per the latest figures from the Alternative Fuels Data Center.  

Ah, self-driving. The promise of kicking back and letting your car do all of the heavy lifting from point-a to point-b while you doom scroll TikTok or pop a movie on Netflix. It's a wonderful reality we've been sold for years, but no company has made good on it despite…

Everybody who knows cars and four-wheel equipment knows about the Mercedes-Benz Unimog. It’s a legendary name in the truck industry and a regular occurrence in Europe where it can be seen mowing hedges, plowing snow and even hopping onto train tracks and doing some railworks.

Jaguar, the British luxury automaker that used to manufacture the I-Pace electric crossover, is starting fresh from a clean slate. It already announced that it’s taking a sort of sabbatical year off from selling any cars before introducing three brand-new all-electric models.

Tesla appears to be on an end-of-year incentive spree, at least when it comes to its best-seller, the Model Y crossover. 

The upcoming Mercedes-Benz CLA all-electric sedan is shaping up to be one of the most important battery-powered cars in recent history. The German automaker went above and beyond with its approach to efficiency and it shows.

Tesla has always ridden on big dreams and even bigger promises. The automaker has a history of betting it all on risky situations—and generally, those moves have paid off. It's not only the lone successful automotive startup the world has seen in about a century, it's also worth more than $1…

The last Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class was a handsome, aerodynamic front- and all-wheel-drive sedan aimed at bringing new customers to the Silver Arrow brand with an affordable price tag and efficient four-cylinder engines. You probably wouldn't say that it lit the world on fire, however. That's why the arrival of a new…

China is reaching new heights in diversifying the battery chemistries used in electric vehicles. The country is already leading in subcategories of lithium-based chemistries, like nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC), nickel-aluminum-cobalt (NCA) and lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP). Earlier this year, state-run utility company China Southern Power Grid even deployed sodium-ion batteries for stationary energy storage. Now…

Imagine a self-driving pickup truck made of bulletproof stainless steel, weighing over 6,600 pounds, hurtling down the road as you stand in its path. You'd expect its cameras and sensors to detect you and bring it to a stop. However, at least one independent test suggests the Cybertruck may fail…

Pedestrian safety. It’s something modern American cars struggle with, partly because there’s no standard in place to test how a human head hitting a vehicle hood would fare in an impact. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is working on introducing a new standard to change this, but until that…