Electric Cars

Local media looks inside the Tesla "Gigafactory."

There are just nine days to go before the much-hyped Tesla Model 3 is unveiled to the world. But it appears that the makers of a different affordable 200-mile electric car wanted to point out that their car will actually precede the Model 3 into production by at least a year. Chevy said today that...

Henrik Fisker is still optimistic about the future of electric cars.

The topic of electric cars and fires is a fraught one, not helped by the recent spate of videos of cheap Chinese hoverboards in flames. Any fire in an electric car tends to make headlines, regardless of whether the facts have been established. Now we have the results of an investigation into the...

The Renault Twizy has always been an unusual vehicle, the sole low-speed electric vehicle to carry the brand of a major global automaker. Sold in a number of European countries, it's been tested here and there in North America. To date, the only way to experience a Twizy has been to rent one from...

Several U.S. electric-car companies have gotten help from Chinese investors.

Tesla upgraded its Fremont, California, assembly plant in anticipation of Model 3 production.

The state-by-state battles between electric-car maker Tesla Motors and lobbyists for state auto-dealer interests often take unusual twists and turns. But the situation in the state of Virginia may be among the odder episodes in Tesla's eight years of selling cars online directly to buyers. In the...

BYD will supply five electric double-decker buses.

Car2Go will switch its all-electric San Diego Smart Fortwo fleet to gasoline models.

Either Bosch or Panasonic could reportedly supply battery cells for Porsche's electric sedan.

Every electric car sold in the U.S. except Tesla uses the same 240-Volt charging socket for overnight or public charging that takes a few hours. But three different and incompatible standards exist for DC fast charging, making the installation of pricier high-powered charging stations more...

The 2014 BMW i3 makes Consumer Reports' "Used Cars to Avoid Buying" list.

Two weeks from tomorrow, Tesla Motors will unveil a prototype for the Model 3 electric car at its design studio in Hawthorne, California. Yesterday evening, the company kicked off the countdown to the presentation with a single tweet showing a Model S, a Model X, and a dark silhouette clearly...

Electric-cars sales in New Zealand stalled after the Nissan Leaf was withdrawn, an advocacy group says.

Among the three German luxury brands, BMW was first out of the gate to build and sell a battery-electric car in volume. Its unusual and technically advanced i3 small hatchback, offered with an optional two-cylinder range-extending engine, makes up the bulk of its "i" sub-brand sales, joined by the...

China plans to shift its electric-car policies away from subsidies.

Toyota's reluctance to entertain the notion that battery-electric cars have any place in the future of zero-emission vehicles is well documented by now. So it was a surprise when the company announced that it would show an all-electric concept car, the Setsuna, in its first appearance at the Milan...

Faraday Future put up a bond after Nevada lawmakers became concerned about its financial state.

A fan-made ad uses a Carl Sagan speech to promote Tesla electric cars.