Mercedes EQ Electric-Vehicle Badge Emerges, Arrival of First Products Revealed

– If you were just settling in with the latest round of Mercedes-Benz changes of nomenclature, the brand is most definitely not done with its renaming game quite yet. The Frankfurt auto show heralded the debut of a new badge worn by the Mercedes-Benz S560e plug-in hybrid, the GLC F-Cell fuel-cell vehicle, and the Mercedes-AMG Project One […]

Zoom Prime: Toyota and Mazda Team Up for Electric-Vehicle Development

– Amid ratcheted-up plans and global forecasts for electric vehicles, Toyota and Mazda are teaming up to develop EV technology. – A new venture by Toyota (90 percent), Mazda (5 percent), and supplier Denso (5 percent) aims to establish a shared architecture for electric vehicles—including common components “transcending differences in vehicle class and power.” The […]

Zoom Prime: Toyota and Mazda Team Up for Electric-Vehicle Development

– Amid ratcheted-up plans and global forecasts for electric vehicles, Toyota and Mazda are teaming up to develop EV technology. – A new venture by Toyota (90 percent), Mazda (5 percent), and supplier Denso (5 percent) aims to establish a shared architecture for electric vehicles—including common components “transcending differences in vehicle class and power.” The […]

Even Big Oil Foresees an Explosion of Electric-Vehicle Sales

– As much as Tesla seems to dominate the automotive news cycle some days, the California electric-car maker remains a small player in a narrow niche of the market. Tesla didn’t even reach 80,000 global sales in 2016. That’s a small portion of the approximately 750,000 electric vehicles made worldwide last year, by all automakers combined, […]

Ahead of Electric-Vehicle Push, Daimler Invests in ChargePoint

– Mercedes-Benz is busy planning a portfolio of electrified models with the upcoming launch of an all-electric EQ sub-brand around 2019 and—by 2020—a full range of complementary Mercedes plug-in hybrids. But the missing piece of the plan has been the infrastructure: With so many vehicles in the works, where do they charge, especially apartment dwellers in […]