Statements have been circulating online, including leading news platforms, that battery electric cars will greatly increase the average mass of the on-road fleet. This claim is used as an argument ...

Costfoto / NurPhoto / Getty Images U.S.-listed shares of a number of Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers ... while sales of the company's hybrid vehicles surged over 62%, sending its shares ...

Otherwise, read on to help decide what sort of car is right for you. A hybrid car combines a petrol engine (or, occasionally, a diesel) with an electric motor. To maximise efficiency, energy that ...

Actually, charging on board a ferry – which would obviously make huge sense from the electric car driver’s point of view – is a relative rarity thus far. According to Stena Line spokeswoman ...

Electric vehicles keep getting more affordable as more accessible federal tax credits, increased model variety and competition from ever-cheaper used EVs put them within reach of more people than ...

accounting for the largest share of battery electric vehicles worldwide. Driven by powerhouses like China, Japan, and South Korea, the regional EV market has seen rapid growth. But another ...

Mary Barra, G.M.’s chief executive, said that the company had fixed battery-manufacturing problems and that its electric vehicles would soon be profitable. By Jack Ewing Reporting from Spring ...

Electric vehicle sales have hit the brakes in Europe and the US in recent months, as cost-conscious drivers have opted for cars with exhaust pipes instead. Yet one company that’s pushing back on ...

Electric cars got top billing at this year’s Paris Auto Show. At the world’s largest such showcase, a central exhibition hall featured an “electric factory” display designed, in the colors ...

The Independent's Electric Vehicles Channel is sponsored by E.ON Next. Buying your first electric car is no small undertaking. Many of today’s EVs might look like traditional cars, and they ...

The Twin-E kit allows cars to run up to 50 km/h in "full electric mode" then switches to a hybrid power if it goes over that speed. To do this, the company installs a 48V electric engine along ...