Slightly sooner than expected, too. It’s now official. Chevrolet has pulled the plug on production of its Volt. The plug-in hybrid that helped kick-start the electric vehicle revolution will no longer roll from the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. The cessation seems to be a bit earlier than expected. When contacted after news of model’s upcoming demise first broke, ...

Jim Englehart helped bring many of today's most popular pickups and SUVs to market, such as the F-150, Ford Explorer and Ford Expedition. ...

Honda actually wants to sell its Clarity Plug-in Hybrid, and the push is working. The word on the streets in the EV community for some time has been that legacy automakers don’t really want to sell their plug ins. In many cases this is true. It has also been said time and time again that ...

President Trump said that because of the progress being made with China in trade talks, this week's round of negotiations had been extended. He said if the two countries reached a deal, tariffs would not need to rise. ...

Don’t try this at home. A wise man once noted there are a few things one should never do. Things like pulling on Superman’s cape or spitting into the wind, for example. Now, we would like to add a new item to this list: don’t drill into a Tesla battery cell. As you can see ...

Who doesn’t love a little Cake? Yet another e-bike is here, apparently, finally! Based in Sweden, Cake (yes that’s their real name) has heretofore been manufacturing off-road electric motorcycles, but they’re introducing the “Kalk&” (a step up from the Kalk OR) as a street-legal version. The bike looks like a hoot: a tiny thing that’s barely a step up from ...

LG Chem puts pressure on VW? According to the latest news from Germany, Volkswagen encountered a conflict with its lithium-ion battery supplier LG Chem, which threatens its plans to build its own battery gigafactories in Germany. Volkswagen entered into a partnership with SK Innovation to build a battery plant in the U.S. and it was ...

VW faces the prospect of compensating thousands of owners of tainted diesel vehicles after Germany’s top court undercut the automaker’s defense strategy that its cheating software was legal in Europe. ...

Fiat Chrysler is on the verge of paying a regular dividend for the first time and said it is planning a $1.1 billion initial distribution to shareholders. ...

At home in the mountains. The Rivian R1T electric truck and R1S electric SUV ventured out into the backcountry for a joyous ride. Without a set script, it was quite simply a let’s see what’s out there type of drive. Well, at 11,000 feet above sea level in the middle of winter, you can expect ...