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Enlarge / Workhorse’s new truck starts initial production this week. (credit: Workhorse) Electric-vehicle maker Workhorse announced today that it has begun initial production of a 100-mile range electric delivery truck called the NGEN-1000. The truck is meant to replace diesel-powered delivery trucks, but this vehicle weighs less than half of what a comparable internal combustion […]
Enlarge / Workhorse’s electric helicopter looks less like a traditional helicopter and more like an oversized drone. (credit: John Timmer) I wasn’t sure entirely what I expected an electric helicopter to look like, but what I found waiting for me at New York’s Flatiron Plaza wasn’t it. It’s not because it didn’t look like a […]
DETROIT — A deal Thursday between UPS and U.S. electric van maker Workhorse Group Inc shows how the delivery industry is making progress to resolve a major obstacle to deployment of battery-powered commercial vehicles: Charging costs. UPS, like its rivals in the package delivery business, faces pressure from regulators in major cities around the world […]
Workhorse Group, maker of the W-15 plug-in pickup and truck-deployed HorseFly delivery drones, will be flying its SureFly personal flying machine for the first time at CES 2018 in Las Vegas on Jan. 8. Ahead of that debut, the company has also announced it will spin off SureFly as its own business. SureFly, Inc. will […]
– Standard all-wheel drive, fantastic safety ratings, and a comprehensive suite of infotainment features make the Subaru Impreza a compelling choice in the compact-car marketplace. A handsome but subdued exterior style and a durable, businesslike cabin give the Impreza broad appeal, and its predictable and athletic chassis provides driving enjoyment for those who care. If […]
– The Workhorse N-Gen sounds at first description like a Hollywood spy-movie cliché: a near silent electric powertrain within a white van with a rather frumpy, nondescript exterior—and a little drone aircraft deployed from the roof to make the final move to the target. – Its reason for being is much more pragmatic, however; it’s the […]
When we talked with Workhorse Group CEO Steve Burns in a recent interview, we spent a lot of time discussing the company’s W-15 range-extended electric pickup. While that endeavor is “the most complicated thing we’ve done,” according to Burns, it’s not the only iron in the fire. Workhorse has a few other projects, some of […]
In 2013, AMP Motors went from being a company converting traditionally powered vehicles to electrification, to being an OEM, essentially overnight. As Workhorse CEO Steve Burns told Autoblog during a phone interview, a company called Navistar got in trouble with the EPA, fired their CEO and “just had a fire sale and started selling off […]
– Expectations could hardly be higher than when Mercedes-Benz, the brand with the motto “The best or nothing,” sets out to enter a market segment. After years of choosing “nothing” as it regards vehicles with a cargo bed at the back, and following years of intensive market research, soul searching, and development, the new X-class […]
– On the surface, the Ford Explorer appears to be an upscale SUV, borrowing high-class styling from one of the world’s shimmering luxo-utes, the Land Rover Range Rover. But look closer and the Explorer’s true colors begin to show, mainly in the form of a cabin that is durable and family-friendly but not at all […]
