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Kia To Offer $7,500 Discount To EV Shoppers Opting To Lease One Of Its Models 

Kia plans to encourage shoppers to lease one of its electric vehicles to make the most of an Inflation Reduction Act provision.  While recently speaking with Auto News, Kia America’s sales chief Eric Watson noted that EVs only currently qualify for…

BorgWarner Secures EFan Business For Battery-Electric Truck From Global OEM 

BorgWarner has been selected to supply its high-voltage eFan system to a global commercial vehicle OEM for use in both the European and North American markets. This marks the first eFan system business in North America for BorgWarner, as well as its…

Small EV Prices Will Match Petrol Cars By 2025 – But Not In Australia

Small EV prices will match petrol cars by 2025 – but not in Australia  The International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted smaller electric vehicles  ill match the price of equivalent combustion models in less than two years, but not in Australia.  EV…

Here’s Every Electric Vehicle That Currently Qualifies For The US Federal Tax Credit 

As sales of electric vehicles continue to surge, many new and prospective customers have questions about qualifying for federal tax credit on electric vehicles, especially now that a slew of new credits have been reinstated to US consumers (alongside their fair…

Survey: Growing Portion Of US Shoppers Are Rejecting EVs

J.D. Power’s data show the number of shoppers “very unlikely” to consider an EV purchase in the next 12 months reached 21% in March. That’s up 2% from the month before and the highest “very unlikely” response J.D. Power had…

Sweden’s First EV-Charging Road Will Power Electric Vehicles As They Drive 

The “E-20” highway stretch in Sweden will soon become the nation’s first functioning charging road to juice the batteries of heavy vehicles carrying freight around the nation.  E-20, (the E actually stands for Europe, rather than electric) runs between Hallsberg…

Siemens Opens Assembly Plant To Produce EV Chargers 

CARROLLTON, TX—Siemens has opened a new assembly plant here to produce chargers for electric vehicles. The company’s second EV charger manufacturing hub in the U.S., the factory will help the company meet its goal of producing 1 million EV chargers…

Canada’s Flo Building Its Fast Chargers In Michigan 

The clean vehicle provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act favor affordable cars, battery packs and raw materials sourced from North America. The advantages of developing a domestic EV industry are plain. But what about where these EVs get their electricity?  A robust…

New To Electrification? Try A Plug-In Hybrid First

Let’s be honest: electric vehicles can get a bad rap. Maybe it’s range anxiety. Or the scarcity — and uncertainty — of public charging stations. Both are valid reasons why some Americans are dubious of electric vehicles. More industry watchers…

Why Is It So Hard To Charge Electric Vehicles On The Road?

A loud pop echoed through the Walmart parking lot, an alarming sign that something was wrong. Cass Tippit had plugged his 2017 Chevrolet Bolt into an Electrify America public charging station in Chipley, Florida, and after about 15 minutes, he…