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On Jan. 8, 2021, General Motors unveiled its new corporate logo. Gone is the formal stern, dark blue all-caps “GM” that has been the official corporate logo for decades…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Hyundai and Apple are in talks. About what? The details are murky at best. But from what can be gleaned, it’s likely to do with autonomous driving or EV battery technology. Or both. Or Neither…
BY PHIL ROYLE
2021, you hope, will be better than 2020. That said, in the world of automotive electrification, 2020 was a spectacular year…
BY PHIL ROYLE
About one year ago, utterly clueless of what the year held in store, I helped launch this website. The goal was twofold…
BY PHIL ROYLE
The Watt Car is more than a year old now, and aside from the unrelenting bad news of COVID-19, the other topic getting a lot of coverage this year is vehicle electrification…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Ever since 2014, there has been internet chatter about a possible “Apple Car” and multiple reports about the company’s “Project Titan”…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Will Mazda’s incremental electrification approach be too-little, too-late?
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
In response to a reporter question at the Axel Springer award ceremony in Berlin, Germany, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he would be open to merger discussions…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
The Nikola Badger pickup, former Nikola CEO Trevor Milton’s CGI-based troll of the Tesla Cybertruck, has been trolled itself…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
You may have heard about the Apple TV+ series “Long Way Up” starring Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Being in the automotive journalism field for the better part of 20 years, I’ve worked in just about every niche and focus of automotive journalism…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Somewhat unexpectedly to many, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Sept. 23, 2020, banning the sale of new internal-combustion passenger cars by 2035…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Tesla’s highly anticipated “Battery Day” on Sept. 22, 2020, while met with great interest by the company’s and Elon Musk’s die-hard fans, landed with a thud…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
General Motors unveiled the next step in the development of its Ultium powertrain family. This week it showed five drive units powered by three drive motors…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Sept. 8, 2020, Nikola and General Motors announced a “strategic partnership” in which GM would “engineer, validate, homologate and build the Nikola Badger…”
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
You may have read Phil Royle’s post recently, “2021: The Year of Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles.” In it, he makes the case that hydrogen has the potential to be a ubiquitous, localized fuel…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Let me clarify this article's title: 2021 is not the year of hydrogen-powered vehicles. Confused? Hang tight and I'll explain why it makes more sense than you think…
BY PHIL ROYLE
The March 2020 Geneva Auto Show was one of the first automotive victims of the coronavirus. Slated for early March, the show’s vehicle unveilings were canceled in short order, leaving auto manufacturers in a pickle…
BY PHIL ROYLE
California has a long history of social activism and progressive politics. These have cumulatively resulted in one of the highest-cost, highest-tax states in the U.S…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
On July 22, 2020, Tesla finally put an end to the mystery of where the next U.S.-based Gigafactory would be built…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
