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Fully Charged OUTSIDE 2021: Win a Kia E-Niro Lease

Drive Electric

Win a 1 year lease of the Kia E-Niro 4+. Keeping in line with DriveElectric traditions, at this years Fully Charged Outside event one lucky attendee will get the chance to win a free 1 years lease of the brand new all-electric Kia E-Niro 4+. About the Kia E-Niro 4+. 64kWh battery with an impressive 282-mile range (WLTP).

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Rivian’s $5 billion U.S. plant has Fort Worth, TX as frontrunner

Teslarati

Rivian did not shed any light on what areas it was considering for the second plant, but new documents have been uncovered that reveal the company is likely to land on a 2,000-acre land plot in Fort Worth near Walsh Ranch. Involvement in these processes does not indicate a final decision.” Paid back in 8.1 What do you think?

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Tesla Autopilot NHTSA probe moves forward, will be compared with OEM systems

Teslarati

According to the NHTSA’s website, numerous documents associated with the Tesla Autopilot probe were added on September 13th. The documents were letters sent to automakers BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, Ford, Nissan, Setllantis, Kia, Volkswagen, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, and Subaru. Credit: Tesla.

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EV News: Get it here!

Electric Auto Association

EV sales Data doesn’t lie The dramatic increase in demand for EVs has been documented by a new study. Lucid 446 mile range coming up? Lucid 446 mile range coming up? Polestar 2. EV rentals Polestars available Hertz is adding 65,000 Polestars to its fleet. Lucid high-performance sedans.

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Opinion: Tesla Needs to Behave Better

The Truth About Cars

I would say the same about Ford or GM or Toyota or Honda or Kia -- had I been working here during the GM ignition switch recall, ho boy. Internal documents seem to show that the company knew about defects and kept both consumers and safety regulators in the dark. That's enraging and frightening.

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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Are Selling Your Driving Data to Insurance Companies

The Truth About Cars

Using the Fair Credit Reporting Act to obtain a copy of his report, Dahl was confronted with a 258-page consumer disclosure document outlining just about everything that had been done with the vehicle. miles in 18 minutes; there had been two rapid accelerations and two incidents of hard braking.

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First seen Cybertruck charging curve disappoints, but is that the whole story?

Baua Electric

The video fully documents a Cybertruck charge at the Tesla supercharger in Mesa, Arizona , a V3 Supercharger capable of 250kW peak power delivery. Measured in “miles of charge added per minute,” which is an even more important metric for practical driving purposes, the picture gets somewhat worse for the Cybertruck.