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New plug-in hybrids for 2025

by EVAI | March 30, 2025 | Reviews, Speed | 0 Comments

Are plug-in hybrids an on-ramp to fully electric vehicles, or undue cost and complexity? Are they something consumers asked for, or something created by bureaucrats and regulators? At least in some...

Review: 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ gets smart, with batteries

by EVAI | March 29, 2025 | Reviews, Speed | 0 Comments

What’s in a name? The Escalade IQ is smarter, it turns out A big battery delivers 460 miles of range Cadillac delivers a big price, too: $129,990 For all its red-carpet appearances and...

Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid: How we’d equip our Best Car To Buy 2025 winner

by EVAI | March 28, 2025 | Reviews, Speed | 0 Comments

Santa Fe Hybrid strikes the best value in base SEL trim with AWD for $40,975 It’s only $500 more than a similarly-equipped gas-only model But second-row captain’s chairs only come with...

Review: 2025 Ram Power Wagon and Rebel HD defend their mountain

by EVAI | March 28, 2025 | Reviews, Speed | 0 Comments

Mild design tweaks don’t change the off-road Ram trucks’ capabilities Ram Power Wagon still has no direct competitor 2025 Ram Power Wagon costs $74,235 and Rebel HD costs $70,740 The...

Could Jeep reinvent planetary hybrid tech for 4WD adventures?

by EVAI | March 28, 2025 | Reviews, Speed | 0 Comments

Stellantis may be looking to adapt planetary gear hybrid systems—like the one currently used in the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid plug-in hybrid minivan—to more rugged vehicles, a patent...

Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid: Best Car To Buy 2025

by EVAI | March 28, 2025 | Reviews, Speed | 0 Comments

The Santa Fe gains hybrid power, 36 mpg combined It outdoes the Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Kia Sorento, and looks like a Land Rover The Hybrid model costs only $500 more than the gas-only Santa Fe...

2026 Nissan Leaf details: Affordable EV will face 2026 Chevy Bolt EV

by EVAI | March 27, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

Next-generation Nissan Leaf will launch first in U.S. and Canada, be fully revealed this year Rogue Hybrid and Rogue PHEV are on the way over the next two model years A broader range of U.S.-made...

Rivian spinoff focuses on small EVs, “ways to move beyond cars”

by EVAI | March 26, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

Spinoff starts with $105 million VC investment, Rivian maintains “substantial minority stake” Products to be affordable, vastly more efficient than today’s cars or SUVs In-house-built for core...

Here are the EVs made in Mexico and Canada

by EVAI | March 26, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

Auto-industry tariffs coming in April, may bring immediate price hikes Mexico makes many U.S.-bound EVs, buys few of them EV tax credit still potentially applies to models made in Mexico and Canada...

Southern US states are set for the most EV range, data suggests

by EVAI | March 25, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

Extreme temperatures can affect electric vehicle range, but the extreme heat of the South is nothing to offset the extreme cold in other parts of the U.S., according to new findings. Vaisala, a...

Xiaomi SU7 Ultra reaches market with 1,527 hp, sub-$73,000 price tag

by EVAI | Feb 28, 2025 | Reviews, Speed

Xiaomi has started sales of its SU7 Ultra electric super sedan in China The SU7 Ultra packs three electric motors delivering a combined 1,527 hp Xiaomi plans to set an official lap time at the...

How Motown, Martha and the Vandellas, and the Ford Mustang wrote music history

by EVAI | Feb 28, 2025 | Reviews, Speed

A classic snare riff kicks it off—bah, bada bah-bah bah-bah bah-bah—and a chugging, urgent bass line propels the song forward. Three young women pop out from a wheel well, radiant in...

Trump and Elon Musk might gut the EPA

by EVAI | Feb 28, 2025 | Reviews, Speed

The EPA could be the next target of the Trump Administration’s mass layoffs, although it’s unclear how deep the cuts might go. As reported by The New York Times, President Trump said...

Kia EV2 concept previews soulful small EV due in 2026

by EVAI | Feb 27, 2025 | General

Kia on Thursday unveiled the Concept EV2, which previews an electric subcompact crossover expected to enter production in 2026. Shown at the automaker’s EV Day presentation in Tarragona,...

Kia PV5 electric van arrives to challenge the VW ID.Buzz

by EVAI | Feb 27, 2025 | Reviews, Speed

Kia has revealed the PV5 as the first of its planned range of purpose-built vehicles The PV5 is an electric midsize van that Kia will offer in passenger and cargo forms Sales start this year but...

Review: 2025 GMC Yukon AT4 Ultimate stretches the limits of off-road luxury

by EVAI | Feb 27, 2025 | Reviews, Speed

GMC’s full-size SUV gains a new flagship off-road trim All Yukon models get a new dash with a massive central screen Air suspension convincingly hides the Yukon’s trucky platform In its...

US-bound Kia EV4 electric sedan and hatch duo revealed

by EVAI | Feb 27, 2025 | Reviews, Speed

Kia will soon expand its electric vehicle lineup with the addition of the EV4 compact sedan and hatchback The EV4’s design stays true to the bold lines of the concept version first revealed in...

Stellantis and Rivian working on flat towing for EVs

by EVAI | Feb 27, 2025 | General

Flat-towing an electric vehicle—that is, towing it with its wheels in contact with the road—is more difficult than with internal-combustion vehicles. But automakers are working on solutions. When...

Upcoming Nissan EV getting NACS port: Will it be next-gen Leaf?

by EVAI | Feb 26, 2025 | General

NACS will debut in Nissan-branded pure EV in 2025, be available in 2026 Unclear whether that’s refreshed Ariya, or next-generation Leaf Nissan won’t immediately renew home charging around NACS...

AC Cobra GT to be built at former Saab site

by EVAI | Feb 26, 2025 | Reviews, Speed

AC Cars has teamed up with T-engineering for production of its Cobra GT T-engineering was founded by ex-Saab engineers and is based on the former Saab plant in Sweden AC is also building the Cobra...