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The West Coast’s largest utility is expanding its vehicle-to-everything bidirectional charging program. Owners of many new all-electric models can now participate, including those who own the Volvo EX90 and the Chevy Bolt. PG&E’s initiative allows EV drivers to lower their energy bills and support the grid. More electric vehicle owners in California can now use their cars’ batteries to share electricity with the grid and get paid for doing it. Pacific Gas & Electric said Monday that it is expanding its vehicle-to-everything (V2X) program to include EVs from Nissan, Volvo, Polestar and Kia, along with more General Motors models like…
Lamborghini may be watching China’s rapidly expanding performance-car industry, but its CEO doesn’t appear particularly concerned about the threat from the country’s new generation of supercars. Lamborghini chairman and CEO Stephan Winkelmann suggested that Chinese manufacturers are not currently direct rivals to the Italian marque, particularly in the high-end performance segment. “We don’t see this as a threat. Because they are doing electric cars. And if we say we are not doing electric cars for a reason, then there is also an idea behind how we look at our Chinese competitors or Chinese manufacturers.” That may sound surprising when cars…
Fuyao Glass, one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive glass, has listed a new product for sale that it says can generate electricity from a car’s roof glass. But before you get too excited: this doesn’t mean solar-powered electric cars are right around the corner. Almost as long as electric cars have been a thing, the thought of powering them from the sun has been an attractive idea. Why not greatly reduce the need for a large battery if we can just collect all the power we need from the sun? The problem is, it doesn’t work quite like…
The Volkswagen ID. Tiguan is expected to debut later this year, bringing much more than just a new look and name. Volkswagen ID.4 due for an overhaul as the ID.Tiguan Volkswagen announced in April that it would end production of the ID.4 at its Chattanooga, Tennessee plant. Instead, the company is shifting focus to more popular gas-powered SUVs like the three-row Atlas. The electric SUV remains on sale as VW prepares to introduce its replacement. The company previously said it had enough supply of current ID.4 models to “support customer demand into 2027,” when VW’s next electric SUV is set…
European EV sales shot up by 51% last month. The rise in fuel prices has convinced more people to switch to electric, boosting the powertrain’s market share. One in four new cars sold in Europe was an EV last month. Europeans’ appetite for electric cars is not slowing down. Last month, EV sales in the region went up by 51% compared to the same month last year, leading to a crisp 25% market share for this type of powertrain, according to Dataforce, which crunched the numbers from 98% of all new car registrations in the European Union, United Kingdom, Iceland,…
Mitsubishi will reveal the fifth-generation Pajero worldwide on September 2, 2026. The new Pajero uses a body-on-frame (ladder-frame) chassis and confirmed Super All-Wheel Control (S-AWC). Hybrid variants are expected, likely diesel-based rather than plug-in systems. Mitsubishi is bringing the Pajero back from the dead the old-fashioned way. The automaker has locked in September 2, 2026 for the global reveal of the fifth-generation SUV, confirmed to run on a ladder-frame chassis instead of the outgoing model’s unibody. That reversal comes bundled with Mitsubishi’s Super All-Wheel Control system, the same S-AWC hardware used on the Triton pickup, as reported by Automotive News. Mix…
Tesla has lost another senior chip engineer to DensityAI, the AI hardware startup built out of its own former Dojo team. Shishuang Sun, who spent more than five years as a Tesla AI hardware architect on Dojo and the Autopilot computers, now lists his role as “Packaging and System Hardware” at DensityAI, starting in July. This is not a junior loss. Sun left Tesla as Senior Director of AI Hardware Design — one of the people responsible for turning Tesla’s custom silicon into working systems, exactly the expertise Tesla needs as it stakes its valuation on in-house AI chips. A…
This Mercedes-Benz G 63 was turned into a 6×6 by Apocalypse Manufacturing. The heavily upgraded G-Wagen includes a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 with 577 hp. Compared to a legitimate G 63 6×6, this one is slightly shorter. Every now and then, a usually sensible automotive brand releases a vehicle so extreme that it stops the industry in its tracks. Mercedes-Benz did this back in 2013 when it unveiled the G 63 AMG 6×6, a six-wheeled drive version of its iconic off-roader. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”); } else { adpushup.triggerAd(“82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f”); }…
Walmart’s EV charging network is now live in 20 states. The retail giant is rapidly installing new chargers across the country. The latest station opened in Colorado, with hundreds more in the pipeline. Walmart is now officially a serious player in the American EV charging industry. That’s because the retail giant recently opened its 100th EV fast-charging station, with the Walmart Supercenter in Monument, Colorado, getting a nice ribbon-cutting ceremony last week to celebrate the occasion. It’s a big moment for the American big box store chain, which had zero branded chargers at its locations less than two years ago.…
Rivian is working on a big software update that will bring the R2’s interface to all R1S and R1T EVs. Rivian OS 2.0 comes with updated graphics. A handy Waze integration for real-time alerts is in the pipeline. The R2, which is already shipping with Rivian OS 2.0, is also getting Waze alerts. Rivian is still not adding Apple CarPlay or Android Auto to its electric cars, but it’s slowly getting to the point where these two smartphone mirroring features won’t be needed at all. That’s because owners of the R1S, R1T, and R2 have pretty much everything they need…