EVs with Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) or Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) functions can also be lifesavers during natural disasters, allowing owners to power fridges, lights and other home electronics when the grid is down.
A quick browsing session on eBay and $100 later, the sensor was replaced, and lo and behold, the Fisker accepted a charge.
The Peter Gregg class at the 2024 Monterey Motorsports Reunion hosts cars built from 1973 to 1981 that raced in IMSA GT, GTX, AAGT, GTU, and FIA.
Volvo would provide Tufvesson with a donor car for parts, but he started by building the T6's tubular frame around the engine and transmission—a twin-turbocharged 2.9-liter inline-six borrowed from an S80, and a five-speed Geartronic automatic transmission that powered the rear wheels.
With the investigation still underway and the cause of the Mercedes fire yet to be identified, some carmakers, including Hyundai, General Motors and Porsche have taken the matter into their own hands by voluntarily disclosing their battery suppliers and offering free safety inspections to EV owners.
That’s a lot to take in, but once you get over all these initial steps, all you need to do is park front-first at a compatible Supercharger, plug in the cable, launch the MyChevrolet smartphone app, select the correct stall from the list and hit Charge Now.
The car is also sized absolutely perfectly for city dwellers, offering compact SUV storage amenities in a car-like package.
As Euronews noted this month, "Chinese car manufacturers are preparing to establish production plants overseas to counter the additional tariffs being imposed by other countries, which will likely boost their sales volume in the long term."
The GT4 RS Manthey gets retuned aerodynamics for increased downforce—complete with a bigger wing and carbon blades on the rear wheels—steel braided brake lines, and it ditches Porsche’s Active Suspension Management system for manually adjustable coilovers.
Kia has a very different approach to this that doesn’t need multiple gear ratios, and it’s a clever engineering solution that debuted in the firm’s largest electric vehicle, the EV9 SUV.
As of this writing, Rivian only sells pre-owned EVs in California and Illinois, two of its biggest markets, so you’ll need to enter a zip code from one of these states to see what’s on offer online.
With its second-quarter earnings report, Tesla announced that it entered validation testing of its very first dry cathode 4680 cells in July.
It lags behind key rivals like the Tesla Model Y or the Kia EV6, although we say it’s not enough to ruin what overall is a very good electric vehicle, at least based on our first drive experience.
On top of its rapid-fire cuts last year that triggered a global electric car price war, Tesla is now going one step further to get buyers into its EVs.
He says that even though there’s plenty to like about the truck (he’s also a known EV advocate who has owned several Teslas over the years), he wouldn’t like to own a Cybertruck because it’s too big and it’s a pickup truck, a body style that carries very different connotations in any other part of the world outside the United States, where it’s exceedingly popular.
In 1958, the four Walklett brothers founded Ginetta as a race car maker with the same focus on light weight and super-sharp performance as better-known companies like Ace, Caterham and Lotus.
By moving the shifter to a pleasingly tactile tab next to the instrument panel and consolidating the climate controls, Porsche freed up space on the center console for a deep, easily accessed wireless charge bin.
