In a few years, when much of the world’s highway system is dominated with , we’ll all look back upon 2019 as a pivotal year. Perhaps not the pivotal year, but an important one nonetheless in the automobile’s transition away from internal combustion. Let’s have a quick peek at what happened in the EV world in 2019.
It’s 2020, and I bet if most of you look out of your window at the cars in the street, you’ll see only gas cars. But in time, that’s going to change, and that’s thanks in part to significant groundwork laid in 2019.
The 2020 Volkswagen ID.3 is the first of the German automaker’s upcoming onslaught of electric…
I don’t think I can overstate how promising the Volkswagen ID family is when it comes to furthering electrification in the auto industry. Here’s an enormous automobile manufacturer with huge market reach and in impressive supply chain investing billions of Euros into electrification.
After a big reveal in Frankfurt back in September, the electric Volkswagen ID.3 has entered…
VW’s platform is impressive, and will underpin not just VW Group cars, but also earlier this year.
It was announced this week that Toyota and Subaru will work together on a new electric vehicle…
Toyota’s executive vice president Shigeki Terashi announced in June that his company is working alongside Subaru to develop a new e-TNGAmodular electric platform.
Honda’s working on a new modular EV platform, Tesla’s dealing with a lawsuit involving alleged…
In July, we learned about Honda’s plans to build a modular electric car platform of its own, with writing:
Unlike the e, the U.S.-bound products will ride on a modular platform that can accommodate a wide range of body shapes and sizes as well as different batteries and motors.
“This new architecture is designed to achieve smooth driving and highly efficient packaging,” said Ayumu Matsuo, Honda’s managing officer in charge of power unit development. “We believe it will meet the needs of customers who like our C-segment and D-segment models.”
The most exciting new electric car that will be cruelly withheld from us affable, friendly…
Everyone got excited when they saw , so when the production version debuted in 2019 looking just as good, and promising a decent 152 horsepower and 137-mile range, the world became a little brighter.
It’s 2019 and the electric luxury car scene is finally starting to grow and diversify. The 2019…
In 2019, Audi launched its first high-volume EV, the E-Tron. It’s a ~$75,000 luxury SUV with about 200 milesof range, which isn’t much, though charging speeds are quick.
At the Los Angeles Auto Show in November, Ford debuted its first high-volume electric vehicle built on a dedicated platform: the Mustang Mach-E. Fans weren’t thrilled with the “Mustang” name, but a handsome crossover seems like the right segment for Ford to start its electrification plan.
Porsche’s first fully electric car is here, and depending on whom you ask, it could be the most…
In 2019, we got our first look at the quickest and best handling mainstream electric car on earth, the Porsche Taycan. It’s a feat of engineering, even if .
Mazda today unveiled its first new battery electric vehicle in the 2020 MX-30 crossover during the…
The Mazda MX-30, Mazda’s first EV, is a pretty good looking crossover. It offers . Seems fine.
After being announced earlier this year, Volvo’s very first battery electric vehicle was…
Volvo also got its feet wet in the EV world with its 402 horsepower, 200 mile range XC40 Recharge crossover
As part of a declaration of intent to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,…
That little crossover you see in the preview above is called the Menlo, a new Chevy offering in China based on the Bolt platform. It’s been an interesting year for China, the country that has seen perhaps the most drastic increase in EV adoption anywhere.
Don’t forget, though, that a lot of that growth was a result of government subsidies, which the country slashed significantly in 2019:
China makes up about half of the global electric vehicle market largely as a result of heavy…
Competition is good, and for awhile, the Chevrolet Bolt wasn’t doing much on its own to be very…
Just as important as the debut of new models is improvement in old ones. The Chevy Bolt got a range update to bring its figure above the base Model 3's.
Tesla on Tuesday announced a new drivetrain design for the Model S and Model X that extends each…
Tesla also changed up its Model S and Model X to crank up range.
Coming hot on the heels of news that Tesla will finally offer the $35,000 Model 3 that was…
And then the Nissan Leaf Plus debuted with its bigger battery pack.
Despite being rebuked by the people of New York City for an office nobody wanted, Amazon doesn’t…
Early in the year, we learned about Michigan-based EV startup Rivian getting a $700 million investment from Amazon.
Electric cars, electric cars, electric cars!!!!!!!!! And also, Nissan lost a bunch of money. This…
Then we heard that Ford was pouring $500 million into Rivian’s piggybank.
Earlier this year, Amazon invested $700 million in Michigan’s electric car startup Rivian, but now…
After that, we heard about Amazon buying a crap-ton of vans from Rivian.
There isn’t exactly a firm roadmap to starting a new car company, but thanks to the industry’s…
And just recently we learned about a huge investment in Rivian from a number of sources. From our :
Rivian, the electric pickup and crossover startup based in Plymouth, Michigan, has seemingly gone from nothing to quite something in 2019 alone. Today, the company announced a new investment from T. Rowe Price, Amazon, Ford, BlackRock Inc., and others worth $1.3 billion.
Rivian might not have a production car out yet, but in 2019, Rivian became a contender.
Swing a leg over the Harley-Davidson LiveWire and you’ll instantly feel the crashing waves of a …
Harley released its first electric motorcycle in 2019 as the company tries to modernize its brand. The bike is apparently a lot of fun.
Harley’s new LiveWire is shockingly fun to ride and an explicit bid from Harley to get younger…
Unfortunately, it seems like sales could be better.
Cadillac is going electric, Jim Hackett is making moves, and VW might be the world’s biggest…
We learned early in the year that Cadillac would take point as GM’s main electric brand in the U.S. (in China, ) as the company makes heavy investments in EV tech.
General Motors invests a lot more in domestic electric vehicle production and hopefully takes the…
Part of that investment will include turning the Detroit-Hamtramck plant into an EV truck facility.
The defunct-but-hardly-forgotten General Motors brand Hummer getting resurrected for electric SUVs…
Whether we’ll see electric Hummers in the near future, we don’t know. But remember that 2019 was the year that such a once-absurd idea actually began sounding feasible.
When Formula E burst onto the racing scene at its first-ever race in 2014, people were skeptical…
Exciting times: An all-electric racing series is making a profit! To those who say electric cars are boring, apparently they’re not!
Having presided over the German marque for four years, Harald Krueger is stepping down as CEO of…
If you wanted play in the automobile world in 2019, you had to have a strong electric vehicle strategy. EVs are the future, so if you want investors to think you’re on the cutting edge, you have to be a significant player in the electric car field. Just look at what happened to BMW’s CEO. From our story:
, Krueger is under fire for losing BMW’s lead in luxury car sales, and for failing to capitalize on an early lux EV start.
We had a feeling BMW was playing it a bit too safe safe:
BMW’s CEO Harald Krüger is stepping down from his job after just four years, in part for coming…
Eight years ago, it looked like BMW was positioning itself in a good place for the electric future.
I just want to be clear, right off the bat, that I love weird automotive design. I’m also quite…
Tesla showed off an electric pickup truck with flat body panels and no paint. The debut , and the vehicle’s looks definitely take some getting used to, but we’ll see how the production version looks—hopefully sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Ford has already promised us an all-electric F-150, and now, to prove to The Truck People that EVs…
The Cybertruck and Rivian R1T aren’t the only EV trucks slated to hit the market this decade. In 2019, Ford showed off prototypes of its EV F-150. And GM also announced that it’s hard at work in that space:
Pickup trucks are the blood that runs through Detroit automakers veins, and it’s nearly impossible…
These are just a few electric vehicle highlights from 2019, and I didn’t even get into infrastructure improvements, which have—between all the new charging stations that and Europe’s have installed—been significant.
Just looking at this list should make it clear that a shift towards electric vehicles and away from ICEs is very much in progress.
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