Electric Vehicles

The Tesla Cybertruck has done what very few modern-day vehicles have been able to achieve – become one of the most recognizable cars on the road. However, Tesla has a major issue on its hands: Its angular electric pickup isn't selling in the numbers it had hoped for.

The debate has been raging for decades: can a Formula 1 car drive inverted from downforce alone? No one ever asked if a McMurtry Spéirling could ... turns out, it's no problemo.

Last year, BYD sold over 4.2 million cars worldwide, with over 90% of those within China. Now it's setting its sights on luxury German carmakers like BMW and Mercedes with the European launch of its high-end Denza brand.

We've seen some highly-portable electric vehicles before, including diminutive scooters and skateboards. Cocoa Motors' new WalkCar, however, makes those gizmos look huge. It's used more or less like a Segway, but it's not much bigger than a laptop.

It isn't easy to recycle high-voltage batteries from electric cars, but Porsche wants to take a stab at it. The plan: extract raw materials from old EV batteries to make fresh ones for its own electric models.

Hyundai's Insteroid concept looks like something straight out of a Disney Cars movie. It's based on Hyundai's city-friendly Inster EV, which is vying for the 2025 World Car of the Year title, and comes inherent with a fair dose of tuner culture.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to enable rapid EV battery charging at awfully low temperatures – up to five times as fast – without reducing the batteries' energy density.

In today’s edition of What the Heck, we have the case of Ford wanting to put what is essentially a fake manual shifter on its EVs. The company has applied for a patent that aims to bring back a traditional element of driving – the feel of shifting gears.

Like many oddball ideas, the JackRabbit micro ebike began as a crowdfunding project in 2018. The cross between a compact bike and scooter has been growing in power and size ever since, with the new Pro models being the most beastly yet.

Some 20 years after it was first founded, San Diego, California-based startup Aptera has taken its solar-powered electric vehicle out on a proper 300-mile road trip – the first time it's been filmed doing so.

Yangwang, the Chinese carmaker that brought us the [Mach 5 inspired?] jumping/dancing U9 electric hypercar, isn't shy when it comes to boasting about the off-kilter feats its vehicles can deliver. This time it's rooftop Wing Chun on the new U7.

Remember Verge? Yes, the same brand that took it upon itself to almost reinvent the way motorcycles look. Well, the folks at Verge took its TS Pro moto on a rather ambitious trip – a 850-mile trip from Monaco to Madrid competed in 24 hours.