It won’t be long before Rivian starts delivering the first of its new R2 SUVs to the lucky owners. After wowing everyone with its R1S and R1T, the startup is ready to enter more mainstream market segments, first with the midsize R2 this year. Last month, we got pricing and trim details for the new ..
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When it comes to automotive bragging rights, a good Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time is right up there with the best of them. And today, those bragging rights belong to Ford. The automaker revealed that its GT Mk IV, an evolution of the mid-engined supercar it created in 2016, is now the fastest production car to ..
This morning, Tesla published its production and delivery results for the first three months of 2026. And for the first time in a while, the news has been largely positive. The automaker built a total of 408,386 electric vehicles, a 12.6 percent increase from Q1 2025. Almost all of those EVs were Models 3 and ..
The other EV3s—the Wind, Land, GT-Line, and GT—all make use of a larger 81.4 kWh pack that provides as much as 320 miles (515 km) of range if you stick with front wheel drive. The larger pack also makes all-wheel-drive possible via a second motor for the rear axle as an option for the Wind ..
The Volvo factory outside Charleston, South Carolina, will get even busier this year. Formerly the site that built the S60 sedan, in recent years it shifted to building big electric SUVs, the EX90 and closely related Polestar 3. Today, Volvo and Polestar announced that Charleston will now be the sole production site for the Polestar ..
After getting a little overoptimistic about the speed and nature of electric vehicle adoption in the US, automakers are now scaling back their production plans. The imposition of tariffs and the abolishment of federal EV incentives are mostly to blame, although the domestic OEMs’ attempt to easily transition their full-size truck customers into all-electric versions ..
RV Tech, a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and Rivian, has completed a successful winter test program, it said this morning. The partnership was created in 2024 when VW Group announced it would invest $5.8 billion in the American electric vehicle maker to gain access to Rivian’s expertise in vehicle software and electronic architecture. VW ..
A 13:1 compression ratio makes it the highest-compression small-block that Chevy has ever produced, up from the 12.5:1 in the current Z06. That compression ratio is enabled by a number of tweaks, including better cooling around the valves and spark plugs and optimized direct injection. Mike Kociba, assistant chief engineer of small block engines at ..
But the NLS has multiple classes, from low-powered entries similar to the Golf GTI I used to race all the way up to GT3s, plus an exhibition class called SPX for stuff that doesn’t quite fit in elsewhere. It’s this latter class that the M3 Touring 24H will enter, being driven by Jens Klingmann, Ugo ..
As the i3 will be the second EV to use the platform, we already know some of the technical details, such as BMW’s 6th-generation powertrain. At the core of the car is its 800 V battery pack, which uses new cylindrical cells that are 20 percent more energy-dense by volume than the prismatic cells you’d ..