Author: Bengt Halvorson

Base 2023 Kia EV6 Light returns at $43,925 and 220 miles

2022 Kia EV6Not everyone wants or needs the EV with the biggest battery and the most range—especially if it means a higher price. That appears to be what Kia has discovered—with an asterisk—with the EV6. Less than a year after dropping the lower-priced base Light version of the EV6, which was the only model to offer the smaller 58-kwh...

Ford CEO: We’re not going to go to 600-mile range on EVs

Ford Explorer electric crossover for EuropeFord is taking batteries very seriously, and it’s not going to spend more on them than it needs to. What that means, Ford product development chief and CTO Doug Field explained at the company's Capital Markets Day earlier this week, is redesigning next-generation EVs around weight savings, reduced complexity, lower rolling resistance, the...

Ford 3-row EV SUV due in 2025 with 350 miles of range

2025 Ford 3-row SUV - Ford CEO Jim Farley on Monday teased the automaker’s upcoming fully electric seven-passenger SUV as being “like your own personal bullet train.” While that might not have been quite as extraordinary a picture as the Millennium Falcon with a back porch he likened Ford’s upcoming Project T3 electric pickup to in March, the...