July 10 is the birthday of Nikola Tesla, who would have been 161 years old today. It’s a good day to celebrate the life of the Serbian-American engineer and physicist: Without Tesla, you might not be able to affordably power your home, let alone read this sentence. Tesla filed more than 300 patents during his […]
Tag: Electrified
Pole Vault: Volvo’s Polestar to Become Dedicated Electrified Performance Brand
– – The days of Rebel Blue Volvo wagons swilling gasoline and squirting oil into spinning turbos may be about to end. Volvo’s performance arm, Polestar, will now engineer an entirely new lineup of electrified vehicles that won’t wear the Volvo name. – Without revealing what its mysterious double-arrow logo represents, Volvo assures speed […]
With its new police car, Ford is pushing the envelope with electrified vehicles (F)
Ford Ford has been racking up some major moves in the future of transportation. It redesigned the best-selling F-Series pickups to be more lightweight and fuel efficient, has been expanding its effort as a mobility provider by buying Chariot, a shuttle bus service in the Bay Area, and also by investing $ 1-billion in ArgoAI, […]
Electrified Audi RS Models Will Happen, But Not until They’re As Good As Regular Versions
– While he admits that creating cars that can cut consumption and hit increasingly tough emission standards is at the top of his list of priorities, Audi Sport boss Stephan Winkelmann believes pure-electric RS models are still some way off. – Electric-vehicle development at Audi has been on and off enough times to tempt us into a […]
BMW Unafraid of Tesla Model 3, Says One in Five Bimmers Likely to Be Electrified by 2025
– Conventional automakers seem to have pretty much worked their way through the five stages of Tesla. First came the denial that the electric upstart was indeed a rival, then we had anger (mostly at subsidies), bargaining (over subsidies), depression at the scale of the Model 3 order bank—and now, in the case of BMW, […]
Electrified Nissan Juke Concept e-Powers Up
– Nissan will plunge further into electrification with the debut of the Juke e-Power concept, set to be unveiled at the Tokyo auto show this fall. With the current Juke now seven years old, the new concept is said to have an exterior modeled after the radical Gripz SUV-style concept first seen in 2015 and […]