Electric Vehicles

Tesla is now expanding the beta for Full Self-Driving

Tesla currently has Full Self-Driving support for its cars in beta currently, but it has limited spaces so only a certain amount of people have been able to join. However that is soon about to change, Elon Musk recently tweeted out that the beta program is expanding, by a lot. The program is going to expand in size by about ten times. If you want to take part, Elon Musk […]

The all electric Skoda Enyaq iV is now on sale in the UK

As of this week, Skoda has put the all new Enyaq iV EV on sale, with prices starting at £31,085 – which is after the £3,000 the UK government offers as a grant for new electric cars. The Enyaq iV sits on the same platform as the new ID.3 from Volkswagen. Skoda is offering a number of trim levels for the Enyaq with the entry level car coming with a […]

Canada is putting more investment into electric public transport

Canada has announced recently that it is investing $2.75 billion CAD into making sure its public transport network is fully electric. Admittedly in a lot of places around the world, the trains and buses aren’t seeing nearly as much use as it use to before the pandemic, but once this is all over the buses will get more use again. Canada will be purchasing new electric buses over the next […]

FedEx is planning for a fully electric fleet by 2040

A lot of companies are making plans and making shifts the world of electric vehicles, it is an important reality we all need to work towards and earlier in February, Jaguar made the decision to become an all electric company by the year 2025, along with Ford by 2030 and so on. Now FedEx is making some promises, it is planning on becoming fully electric for its fleet by the […]

Hyundai has had to recall 76,000 cars due to fire risk

Hyundai is having to recall 75,680 Kona EVs worldwide due to issues with the batteries. The main issue came from when Hyundai issued a software upgrade to a batch of Kona vehicles which would limit the cars charging to 90%. However one car that had been upgraded happened to catch fire in South Korea in January this year. After this issue occurred, the Korean Transport Ministry investigated but determined the […]

Peugeot announces new electric e-Rifter MPV

Peugeot has launched a new electric version of the Rifter MPV with the e-Rifter which is actually based on the Partner commercial vehicle, which also gained an all electric version in early February. This is similar to the Life version of the Vauxhall Combo-e which was announced earlier this month too. As Peugeot is in the same PSA group as Vauxhall and Citroën all of the electric versions all share the […]

Tesla has stopped taking orders for the base line Model Y

In the last few days, Tesla has stopped orders for the entry level Model Y small SUV. The Standard Range version only launched a few weeks ago and has been dropped all of a sudden. This decision could be for any reason, supply issues, backorders retooling etc. The base price of the Model Y was $39,990 which was a reduced price anyway, now the Standard Range version has gone the […]

The Volkswagen ID.5 will start production this year

Volkswagen’s third vehicle in the ID family will be the ID.5 with the first two models, the ID.3 and ID.4 already on sale. The ID.3 is a Golf sized all electric hatchback and the ID.4 is a compact sized all electric SUV. The upcoming ID.5 is going to be a coupe version of the ID.4, but currently it doesn’t look like it’ll go on sale across the pond, in the […]

Ford’s models will be all electric by 2030 in Europe and UK

Here in the UK, the government is going to be banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by the year 2030. Then in 2035 the sale of new hybrids will be banned too, meaning that from the year 2035 the only new cars that’ll be allowed to be sold will be 0% emission, whether that be 100% electric or hydrogen. Ford has announced this week that in the […]