by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 25, 2020
Tesla may be able to boost the amount of energy it can store in its batteries by as much as 50% during the next three to four years, CEO Elon Musk suggested in a tweet. Such a move could make battery-electric vehicles far more competitive with conventional,...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 24, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has had a massive impact on life in America, with millions infected, more than 170,000 dead, and most Americans now taking steps to avoid becoming part of those statistics. Since the first COVID-19 cases started showing up across the country...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 24, 2020
Mini will join a growing list of manufacturers abandoning the shrinking convertible market, according to industry sources. Passenger cars, in general, are rapidly losing traction in a market dominated by pickups and utility vehicles, but convertibles have posted some...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 21, 2020
It’s been a tumultuous year for the auto industry, something that would have been likely even if we didn’t have a deadly pandemic delivering such a shock. If anything, the slump in sales has forced automakers to take a good, hard look at their product portfolios...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 21, 2020
The first of the new Volkswagen ID.4 battery-electric vehicles has begun rolling down the Volkswagen assembly line in Zwickau, Germany, the all-electric SUV set to become VW’s first long-range model offered in the U.S. market. The Zwickau plant recently went through a...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 20, 2020
Hours before Lyft was set to shut down its operations in California, a federal judge gave the ride-hailing service – along with rival Uber – a reprieve, temporarily blocking the state’s move to have drivers declared employees, rather than independent contractors. Both...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 20, 2020
We’ll be seeing an explosion of new brand names over the next few years, a sizable share of them – like Fisker, Lucid and Lordstown Motors — offering battery-electric vehicles. Among the list is one you might already have heard about, Polestar initially debuting...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 19, 2020
General Motors will launch “20 or more” battery-electric vehicles worldwide by 2023, and 40% of the new models it’s aiming at the Chinese market going forward will be BEVs. By various estimates, that could substantially increase the value of an automaker that has long...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 19, 2020
Terms like “Tesla fighter” and “Tesla killer” have become cliché, and also just plain false, so many seemingly solid contenders either falling by the wayside or failing to dent the California EV maker’s dominance on the sales charts. But one startup could be getting...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 18, 2020
We’re still waiting to find out more about the Mercedes-AMG Project One – as in how much more than 1,000 horsepower the hybrid hypercar’s Formula One-derived powertrain will be able to punch out. For now, we’ll have to settle for rudimentary details and know that...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 18, 2020
Bollinger Motors, the small Detroit electric vehicle startup, is getting a bit bigger as it “ramps up towards production” and moves to a new headquarters. Launched by Robert Bollinger, a serial entrepreneur who has had a decidedly eccentric career in marketing,...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 18, 2020
Some 55 years ago, Ford revolutionized the automotive market with the launch of the original Bronco, arguably the first truly mainstream sport-utility vehicle. In what was seen as a good idea at the time, Ford killed Bronco in 1996, shifting focus to the more...
