Electric Vehicles

Last year, BMW and Michigan startup Our Next Energy (ONE) announced a partnership to test the latter's Gemini battery system. The initial results are in, and the project proved quite successful, pushing the BMW iX to just over 600 miles a charge.

It's been just over four years, and the wait is officially over. The Tesla Cybertruck is here and it's already headed out onto Texas roads. It's still big, aggressive, and weird ... and it manages to outdo some of the 2019 hype.

We've been hearing about in-road EV charging tech for a number of years, including tests from Renault and Stellantis. Now the City of Detroit is reported to be the first installation of wireless charging in a public roadway in the US.

Shimizu is working on what it says will be the world's smallest electric scooter. The 10-lb Arma scooter folds to the length and width of a piece of printer paper to carry in a messenger bag or work as its own mini-briefcase.

As is the case with their gas-burning counterparts, electric cars are limited in spaciousness and design by the layout of their drivetrain. Hyundai and Kia have set about addressing that issue, with their radical new Universal Wheel Drive System.

Lotus is aiming to go 100% electric by 2028, a mission that's seen it launch hyper-SUVs and hyper ebikes. Now it's turned its attention to hyper-chargers. Its Flash Charge hardware will be future-proofed for outputs up to 450 kW.

Remember back before smartphones existed, when you had to buy a separate cell phone, camera, music player, calculator and calendar? Well, the Utility Personal Transporter may one day do for electric vehicles what smartphones did for gadgets.

At the dawn of the current EV revolution, Mitsubishi launched a highway-capable, mass-produced five-door hatchback called the i-MiEV, followed by an electric version of its veteran microvan. Now that Minicab-MiEV is being updated for 2024.

While some off-road vehicles are quite striking in appearance, not many are … pretty. The all-electric Callum Skye could soon change that, with a nice-looking design that will allow it to also be driven on city streets.

Thor Industries has been preparing for the EV age for years with concepts like the Airstream e-Stream trailer and generator-free Tuscany RV. Now it applies that visionary spirit to charging, presenting a concept station specifically for e-RVs.

Here's something we didn't expect to see at the 2023 LA Auto Show: a new Cybertruck-like e-pickup that manages to look weirder than the Tesla. It's the Robotruck 1T, and it comes with a 550-mile range and 6-foot expandable pickup box ... er ...prism.

HW Electro has revealed a new light electric concept called the Puzzle, a boxy minivan designed with disaster relief in mind and sporting external power outlets, USB ports, a crowbar and a first aid kit.