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Off roading dominated our attention in this week’s electrification news, from good to bad. We’ll start with the good. Jeep previewed its Magneto EV concept…
By PHIL ROYLE
This week’s The Watt Car Podcast sees Phil Royle and Edward A. Sanchez chat about EV tire wear, tree pollution problems, Jeep 4xe fuel economy, an EV Wrangler…
BY PHIL ROYLE
It’s been about a week since Kia teased us with more information regarding its forthcoming EV6. In the tiniest tidbit of a preview, Kia revealed that its curvy EV crossover…
BY PHIL ROYLE
I want to preface this post with the caveat that I’m a Tesla owner, and a general fan of the company and its products. Before I bought my Model 3, I was an avid reader…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
About a week ago, Porsche unveiled its Taycan Cross Turismo, which you could say is a more practical version of the Taycan. Acceleration, battery size, and pricing will largely resemble the “OG” Taycan…
BY PHIL ROYLE
This week’s news was largely dominated by a cold spell that swept the south, leaving millions of Texans freezing in their homes with no electricity…
BY PHIL ROYLE
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on the 2021 Tesla Model S and Model X yoke steering wheel. If you haven’t read it, you can find it here. After some research and digging…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
This week was packed with yummy EV and hybrid reveals, some as vehicle refreshes and others boasting completely new form factors…
BY PHIL ROYLE
As soon as we published last week’s electrification roundup, Ford CEO Jim Farley took to the airwaves to proclaim that Ford will not be left behind when it comes to electrification…
BY STEVE THOMPSON
While racetracks are nothing new, the forthcoming 2.5-mile circuit just yards to the east of Buttonwillow Raceway Park in Southern California is extremely new. In fact, it’s not even open yet…
BY BRIAN STARK
This week featured big EV news, although this particular item was more about a lack of electrification. Cadillac unveiled its CT5-V and CT4-V Blackwings…
BY STEVE THOMPSON
You don’t have much time, so let’s dive in... Tesla unveiled its revamped Model S and X, which largely included interior tweaks like a horizontal center screen, no gear selector…
BY STEVE THOMPSON
Tesla and Elon Musk have never been shy to eschew convention and make bold steps to go where none – or few – have gone before…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
It’s been a year since we discussed EVs in SCCA autocross, and for the most part that’s because all EV street cars in Sports Car Club of America autocross competition have remained classed the same way for a while…
BY BRIAN STARK
In a statement this week, the U.S. Department of Energy released its listing of the 50 states in order of EV charging stations per 100,000 population…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
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
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
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
