To his credit, Jenkins didn’t sidestep the question. He believes PIF had been shopping around, looking at EV startups for a while. Lucid set themselves apart, Jenkins told me, with the company’s previous work on high-performance batteries. "Our involvement in the Formula E racing series was a good proof-of-concept for our capability in energy storage with our battery technology. I’m happy to say that we very much align on this common understanding that electrification is necessa

Volvo spinoff Polestar sure has its newest product making the rounds these days. Last month, Matt Farah of The Smoking Tire got a chance to drive a Polestar 2 around Malibu —where he was passed by another tester doing the very same thing in an identical car. Now, the Polestar 2 has made its way northward to Canada, where the YouTube channel Throttle House has pitted it in a compare-and-contrast against its main competitor, the established Tesla Model 3. Farah came away from his Polestar test drive incredibly impressed, thinking the car was a significant improvement over the Model 3, but he's only one data point. Now, we've got a pair of testers putting the two (relatively) affordable EVs head to h

Mustang has a cult following and it’s not hard to understand why. Currently, it is Ford’s most successful nameplate and has been produced as pony and muscle cars. Mustang was introduced in 1965 and it’s now in its sixth generat

Ford will be selling dedicated home charging stations to its Mach-E customers for ease of charging. Asides this, Ford has also partnered with several charging stations for its FordPass Charging Network claiming it’ll be the largest charging network in the

More recently, Tesla popped into his head because he could then ride in the carpool lane solo and avoid some LA traffic on his commute. All the widely reported performance stats helped, as well, but Ryan's a serious aficionado when it comes to his gear, so a test drive of a Model 3 was in order before his eyes got bigger than his wal

One of the greatest elements of modern EV design is that the "skateboard" battery-motor platform they all employ allows for massive interior and cargo space. Throttle House hosts Thomas and James compare trunk space front and rear for both cars, plus headroom in the front and back se

From a stats perspective, the fact that Polestar intended its first EV to take on the Model 3 and Model Y becomes immediately clear. Where the Polestar 1 fits more into the hybrid-supercar-grand tourer umbrella , the new-for-2021 Polestar 2 is a full-electric car game walkthrough|Https://evinsightzone.com/, dual-motor sedan with a starting price of $61,200. That sticker price buys power output of 408 horses and 487 lb-ft of torque routed to all four wheels, with an EPA-estimated range of 233 miles and a WLTP estimate of 292 miles. Unlike most Throttle House vids, though, this one doesn't feature a drag race, which the Tesla would probably

Next, it was my turn to drive. Ryan pulled over so we could switch positions. I adjusted the mirrors, set the steering on Sport, checked out the rear visibility (not great but again, I'd say better than the Lucid Air the day before), and floored

Jenkins has come to terms with the fact that the Air will forever be compared to Tesla’s Model S . On one hand, Peter Rawlinson’s involvement with and untimely departure from the Tesla brand can possibly take the blame. On the other, the Model S really only has one current competitor, Porsche’s Taycan, so any new addition to the market can only be compared to one or two other vehic

Clearly, my descriptive adjectives were failing me as I reveled in the thrill of acceleration. I spent about ten minutes putting the Model 3 through its paces, Ryan fiddling with some settings and scoping out the interior as it might apply to his l

The majority of new owners won’t know the cost of maintenance or how often they’ll be required to carry out such maintenance on their cars. It even gets more puzzling with a new entrant EV. Hence, Ford’s decision to not offer complimentary maintenance for Mach-E could discourage prospective buy

"As far as the future, we’re looking at additional derivatives. Color and material and paint variants for Lucid Air, further widening our options, looking at performance variants as well as additional luxury variants. And, naturally, we look at the Lucid Air platform and what other products could be spawned off that platfo

It was straight to the drawing board for Jenkins, though at that point, Lucid wasn’t even Lucid and the Air wasn’t the Air. "It was Atieva," Jenkins explained. "It was a sedan concept that Peter had in his mind. And we basically started from scratch there and really defined the vehicle, the layout, the target customer, the market position, the product attributes, where our strengths were going to l

As everything can be controlled via the touch-screen and voice command, there are only 2 physical buttons in the entire car. Some have criticized this, but this allows you to change settings far more intuitively. Remember when people first criticized the touch-screen on mobile phones? Now, it’s on almost every phone out th