Fully electric cars. The ones that deliver, the ones that don’t, and the ones being sold as the future before they’ve figured out the present. All of them, named and called out.
Henney Kilowatt: The 1960 Electric Car Sold to the Meter Reader In 1960 you could spend $3,600 on an Oldsmobile 98. Or you could spend it on a French compact with golf-cart batteries under the skin and a charging cord instead of a gas pump. Consumer Guide and Lancaster Insurance both put the Henney Kilowatt’s … Read more
The Lucid Air holds 516 EPA miles and a 749-mile Guinness record, yet Lucid lost $300,000 per car in 2024 and lives on Saudi PIF money. The full story.
A five-year-old Porsche Taycan has lost 54.7% of its sticker. U.S. sales, the battery recall, tariffs and what to check before buying used.
The Citroën Ami weighs 485 kg, a 15-year-old can drive it, and you can’t buy one in the US. The most sensible EV on Earth, no filter, on NEB.
The GMC Hummer EV weighs 4.1 tons, its battery outweighs a Honda Civic, and it burns more than a Prius. The EV’s walking contradiction, no filter, on NEB.
Tama E4S-47: The Electric Car That Beat Its Own Spec Sheet in 1948 Here’s a quiz for anyone who thinks battery swapping is a 21st-century invention. In 1910 a power company in Hartford, Connecticut, started swapping batteries on electric trucks. In 1947 a Japanese outfit built a swappable pack into a taxi. In 2011 an … Read more
Nissan Leaf: the car that made EVs normal and burned the people who believed first America was the Leaf’s biggest market and the scene of its worst betrayal. The car that finally made the electric vehicle normal — affordable, five-seat, buy-it-at-a-dealer normal — also cooked its own batteries in the American Southwest and left its … Read more
Tesla Roadster: Tesla didn’t invent it, but it knew how to sell it Tesla didn’t invent the Roadster from scratch. It took the idea from someone else’s prototype that nobody wanted to build, licensed its electric technology, and turned it into a production car on a Lotus base — then sold it as the Big … Read more
Toyota RAV4 EV: the hybrid giant built two good electric cars and let both die For 25 years Toyota told the world the battery electric car wasn’t ready. And it was right often enough to look like the smartest company in the room. The trouble is that while it preached patience, Toyota built two of … Read more
