Most electric cars are essentially automatic, meaning there is no need for the driver to change gear. You simply engage D (for Drive), press the accelerator pedal and let the battery and motors do the ...

Last year, Porsche made some buzz when one of its development drivers told the media that “fake” EV gear shifts were essentially pointless. As we’ve learned from driving the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, the ...

The race is on to create an ebike motor that adds the least amount of weight and bulk as physically possible, disappearing away into the bike where it's barely seen or heard but is felt on every pedal ...

Remember when EVs were the only way to keep the weather from changing? Horse, the joint venture between Renault and Geely, has introduced a new hybrid powertrain designed to be retrofitted into ...

Normally, you wouldn’t expect to find a Lordstown Endurance electric pickup in rural Slovenia—or, for that matter, anywhere at all. So it felt like a borderline fever dream hustling two of the world’s ...

Donut Lab, which unveiled a family of in-wheel electric motors at CES 2025, has spent almost a decade searching for one of the holy grails of the EV industry: in-wheel motors that actually work. These ...

Automakers and aerospace firms are accelerating rare-earth-free motor designs as dependence on neodymium becomes a liability.