The Latest Breaking News on Electric Vehicles

The company’s shares tumbled on the London Stock Exchange after it said it was taken by surprise by low demand for its products

Electric vehicles aren’t nearly as popular as they once were. As more automakers roll back their overly ambitious EV plans, the market for battery-powered cars has slowed dramatically. Compared to 2023, last year was a significant down year for EV sales as a whole. But there were a number of…

Electric vehicles are known for their efficiency, especially when driving at low speeds around town. Here, EVs have a huge advantage over internal combustion vehicles because the slower the driving speed, the lower the energy consumption.

Yet another major automaker has been fined for cheating on diesel emissions. Hino Motors, a company within Toyota Group, agreed to a settlement totaling $1.6 billion resulting from "false and fraudulent CO2 emissions test data" submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The fine includes a $236.5 million…

The US Federal Trade Commission has banned General Motors from selling sensitive driver data. The agency alleges that the automaker and its OnStar service collected and sold precious geolocation and driving behavior data without obtaining proper consent, and now it can’t sell it to consumer reporting agencies for five years.

Norway is set to make history by becoming the first nation to sell only zero emission (electric- or hydrogen-powered) vehicles by the end of 2025. While this doesn’t mean that fossil fuel-powered cars already on the road will suddenly disappear there, it marks a decisive shift towards their eventual obsolescence.

The Biden administration's climate change investments are still taking shape even amid the president's very last days in the White House. Over the last few weeks, it's been an absolute blitz: Fast-tracked approvals for loans and grants for all sorts of clean energy projects, including chargers and battery plants. Now days…

That's kind of a wild question, when you think about it. What could the biggest automaker in the world learn from a company that barely existed 20 years ago?

Last summer, as many rivals were backing off their electric vehicle plans as sales proved to be growing less quickly than expected, Korea's Hyundai Motor Group was singing a different tune. "We're gonna keep our foot on the accelerator" is what Hyundai Motor America CEO Randy Parker told me in an…