Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared on Twitter that Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess deserved a lot of credit for helping VW move toward rapid electrification. He added that VW is lucky to have him. This came as a response to Diess’ remarks about Elon Musk in a recent 60 Minutes … [continued]
There are now a few 100% electric vehicle brands — such as Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, and Polestar — but looking past them at legacy automakers, let’s see who’s leading the way in terms of their movement toward a 100% electric future. Note that we don’t have data on EV sales … [continued]
Longer range and faster charging are coming to Volkswagen ID. branded cars.
The electrons keep on flowing and electric vehicle news keeps on flowing, from solid-state battery progress to portable EV charging to new electric cars. Scroll down below for more EV news that we didn’t quite get to covering in individual articles. Electric Car News Volkswagen to show the ID. Buzz … [continued]
Following up on our report on US electric car sales in 2021, let’s now look at sales of electric vehicles in the United States in the 1st quarter of 2022. Based on well informed estimates of US Tesla sales, the Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model 3 dominated sales of … [continued]
I’m a huge fan of several non-Tesla electric cars. I’d happily recommend the Ford Mustang Mach-E or Volkswagen ID.4 to anyone who expressed any interest in those vehicles. I currently own a Tesla Model 3, but I previously owned and loved a BMW i3 and I would say without a … [continued]
Following up on US auto sales reports for the 4th quarter of 2021 as well as the full year 2021 compared to 2020 and 2019, here is our report on US auto sales in the 1st quarter of 2021 compared to the 1st quarter of 2019 and the 1st quarter … [continued]
US auto sales in 2019 were down 1.4% to 1.6% compared to 2018. That was before COVID-19 hit the United States and destroyed the US auto industry (among other things) for several months. So, when looking at 2021 US auto sales, I find it more interesting to compare to 2019 … [continued]
It’s been a busy beginning of the year already, and we’ll have more to report on that shortly, but let’s first take a stroll back a few months to look at what happened in the US auto industry in the 4th quarter of 2021. To get started, looking at the … [continued]
Volkswagen’s over-the-air update program hits a glitch.
