All fully electric vehicles ditch internal combustion in favor of a beefy battery and electric motors to drive the wheels. This sounds like a straightforward trade, but it means that EVs are both ...

So, you’ve decided it’s time to buy an electric vehicle. There are more electric cars than ever, with nearly 100 2024 or 2025 models expected to be on sale by the end of 2024 and more on the ...

Electric vehicles, or EVs, had their best-selling year in 2022. Their market share surpassed 5% according to Edmunds data, which is nearly double than 2021. In 2023, EV sales should continue to ...

Electric cars are generally more efficient than gas vehicles, converting over 77% of electrical energy received from the grid into operating power at the wheels, according to the U.S. Department ...

A young attendee examines a Tesla car during the Electrify Expo in Washington D.C. on July 23, 2023. The expo highlighted new and soon-to-be-released electric cars, bikes and other technology.

Cars.com illustration by Paul Dolan So you’ve decided to take a gamble on an electric vehicle, but you’d like to keep the ante down for getting into the game. There are lots of good reasons ...

Here’s what we learned: Plan ahead. Electric cars are in such high demand, few dealers are keeping vehicles around for test drives — we had to drive an hour to find one model.

The price tag on new electric vehicles is still higher than gas-powered vehicles. Kelley Blue Book estimates that prices on new EVs dropped from $65,000 in May 2022 to $56,648 in May 2024, a 15% ...

That’s because, despite the availability of a few affordable electric cars like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Bolt EV that are priced in the low-to-mid $30,000 range, most mainstream models ...

Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s. Interest in technology has boomeranged over the years based on both consumer trends and ...

As more and more electric cars go on sale, here's a look at every model you can buy in 2020 and how far they'll travel on a charge. It's getting easier, slowly but surely, to plug in to electric ...

Electric cars are common in high-income neighborhoods. Consider Carmel Valley, Mr. Teglia’s well-to-do neighborhood in San Diego.