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Enlarge / The Honda e is adored by journalists, but it's small and expensive.Honda By all rights, Honda should be further along with its electrification strategy. The Honda Insight beat the Toyota Prius as the first mass-market hybrid to be introduced into the US market by seven months. Instead, other manufacturers seemed to have jumped…

Enlarge / BMW's factory in South Carolina builds its X models—SUVs and crossovers—and now it's going to build electric ones.BMW Domestic lithium-ion battery manufacturing has received quite a shot in the arm in 2022. In May, the Department of Energy announced it would spend $3 billion to increase battery-making here in the US. But perhaps…

Enlarge / The first EV to use GM's Ultium batteries is the Hummer EV, seen here. But from 2027, the cells will also power new, affordable EVs from Honda and GM brands.General Motors On Tuesday, General Motors and Honda announced that the two companies are working together on a new range of affordable electric vehicles.…

Enlarge / Toyota's current lineup of electrified vehicles will be joined by a battery-electric crossover in 2022.Toyota In 2025, Toyota will open a new North American battery manufacturing plant as part of the automaker's electrification strategy. The company made the announcement on Monday morning, stating that it will spend $3.4 billion (¥ 380 billion) on…

Enlarge / In 2024, Ram will offer a battery-electric Ram 1500 pickup truck, with battery packs of up to 200 kWh.Stellantis On Monday morning, car conglomerate Stellantis and LG Energy Solution announced a new joint venture to produce lithium-ion battery cells destined for electric vehicles in North America. The factory—to be built at an as-yet-unnamed…

Enlarge / A rendering of the BlueOvalSK campus in Glendale, Kentucky. On Monday, the Ford Motor Company announced a massive investment to build electric vehicles in Kentucky and Tennessee. Together with partner SK Innovation, it will invest $11.4 billion and create around 11,000 new jobs in the region building electric F-series pickup trucks and battery…

Toyota introduced the Prius Prime in 2016, years after other manufacturers released electric-only models. Executives at Toyota had a moment of inspiration when the company first developed the Prius. That moment, apparently, has long since passed. The Prius was the world's first mass-produced hybrid car, years ahead of any competitors. The first model, a small…

Apple's automotive plan includes a collaboration with Hyundai, according to a report published on Friday by the Korea Economic Daily. It says that Apple and Hyundai are working on battery technology that will differ from the kind used in the automaker's new battery electric vehicle platform, which goes into production later this year. The report also…

Enlarge / For its centenary in 2019 the company built the EXP 100 GT concept car to think through ideas for an all-electric Bentley.Bentley Time is starting to run out for vehicles powered purely by internal combustion engines, and the auto industry knows it. This week Bentley, that bastion of British luxury, became the latest…

Hyundai is spinning out Ioniq as a brand for electric cars, in the same way that it spun out Genesis as a standalone brand for luxury cars. It will launch three new battery electrics between 2021 and 2024. Hyundai The first of these will be called the Ioniq 5, a crossover based on the 45…