Electric Car News Electric Vehicles Under Fire For Poor Sales As Another Major Car Brand Questions The Future Of Evs

Experts Predicted An EV Sales Collapse. It's Already Started

Jim Farley was right. Last month, Ford's CEO predicted that market share of electric cars would be cut in half once the federal tax credit for clean vehicles met its untimely demise on September 30. Read More

GM bets big on electric cars even as market slows

Electric vehicle sales in the U.S. trail other major car markets where General Motors does business, which was not expected to be the case when GM first planned its broad EV portfolio. Though the ... Read More

Mercedes Pauses US-Bound EQ Electric Car Production Indefinitely

It’s the end of the line for the EQ brand in America—at least for now. Mercedes-Benz will stop shipping its current generation of electric vehicles to U.S. dealers beginning in September, the German ... Read More

Tesla Investors Have a New Worry

American car buyers just lost federal electric-vehicle tax benefits. Chinese incentives are also decreasing. That should pressure electric car sales in another key market for Tesla. Read More

Electric Car Sales Are Soaring Worldwide… Except in North America

Global EV sales are surging, but North America’s modest 6% growth highlights affordability and policy challenges—even as Ford, GM, and Hyundai celebrate record months. Electric vehicle sales grew by ... Read More

Electric Vehicles Make Up 11 Percent of US Car Sales

Americans bought 438,500 electric cars and trucks in the third quarter, as drivers raced to grab federal incentives before they expired Sept. 30. Those transactions, the highest number in a single ... Read More

Engineering Professor Answers Electric Car Questions

Professor Willett Kempton joins WIRED to answer the internet's most interesting questions about electric cars. Has Elon Musk's high profile public persona affected Tesla sales? Will electric cars ever ... Read More

What happens when an electric car catches fire

When an electric car catches fire, the results are both alarming and instructive. Unlike traditional engine fires, the lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles can reignite even after being ... Read More

Electric Cars Under $10k: Are Cheap Electric Cars Safe To Buy Used?

We've all heard horror stories of people buying used gas-powered vehicles and finding oil leaks, overheating and high running costs. So what if you wanted to go for a cleaner option, like an electric ... Read More

Looking back on more than 100 years of electric vehicle coverage

Electric vehicles haven’t only become newsworthy in the 21st century. The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, has been covering EVs for more than a hundred years. On March 21, 1915, The ... Read More