Best Hybrid And Electric Cars For The Money In 2022
Consumer interest in hybrid gas/electric and full-electric vehicles spiked during 2022, concurrent with the sharp rise in gasoline prices and with good reason. The best hybrids, in which an electric motor and a self-charging battery pack assist a gasoline engine,…
VW Starts Building Electric Vehicles In U.S. Plant: Just-In-Time Production
The timing couldn’t be much better for Volkswagen to start building electric vehicles in its U.S. plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., just as the United States has passed new requirements for EVs to be built in North America, in order to…
Durbin Announces $8.25 Million In Federal Funding For Electric Bus Infrastructure In Illinois
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced distribution details for the $8.25 million in federal funding that he secured in the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Omnibus appropriations bill for electric buses….
Here’s Why A New $40,000 Electric Vehicle Tax Credit For Business Owners May Be relatively Easy To Get
Business owners will be able to avail themselves of a new tax credit for electric vehicles starting next year — and it should be easier to get than a similar tax break for consumer households buying “new clean” passenger cars,…
Audi’s Line Of EVs May Soon Be Produced In The United States
Audi’s line of EVs may soon be produced in the United States, as soon as 2023, thanks to the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA encourages electric vehicle manufacturers to build their vehicles in the USA. For BEVs…
Global Lithium & EV Battery Raw Material Supply Chain Congress
North American automotive OEMs now face a significant challenge, frequently cited as the most urgent today. Addressing how lithium and critical battery raw materials supply will meet demand as firms race to ramp up B.E.V. manufacturing. American Business Conferences built…
Volkswagen to plough €2.4B into vehicle automation in China and form JV with Horizon Robotics
Volkswagen is accelerating the pace to automate its electric vehicles for Chinese customers. CARIAD, a wholly owned automotive software company of the German auto behemoth, intends to set up a joint venture with Horizon Robotics, one of China’s most serious…
EU expects its electric cars can get level playing field in U.S.
WASHINGTON — European Union and U.S. officials expect to reach agreement that would grant EU companies, including electric car makers, the same status as U.S. ones in the U.S. market, to avoid what the EU calls discrimination against its producers…
Volkswagen Group’s all-electric deliveries up 25 percent after nine months
The Volkswagen Group continued to drive forward its successful global electric offensive. The deliveries of all-electric vehicles were up 25 percent in the first nine months year-on-year. Despite ongoing supply constraints, 366,400 BEVs have been handed over to customers until…
China’s Electric Trucks May Well Pull Forward Peak Oil Demand
Electric trucks are grabbing a lot of headlines lately. Elon Musk announced Tesla Semis will start shipping to PepsiCo in California. Volvo is delivering battery-powered big rigs to Amazon in Germany. But few markets are electrifying quite like China, where…
