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Czech auto manufacturer Škoda has shared plans to focus less on its PHEV models in the future, and instead deliver more pure electric cars. In a recent interview, Škoda CEO Thomas Schäfer spoke to the company’s success last year, as well as the bright future around its all-electric Enyaq iV, despite a global semiconductor chip shortage. Škoda Auto a.s. is an automaker founded and…

Honda released more details about its electrification plans in the US, and only one word comes to mind: pathetic. At this point, it’s fairly clear that Honda is years behind the rest of the industry when it comes to battery-electric vehicles. Currently, the Japanese automaker only offers the Honda E, a short-range electric vehicle, in Europe. In the US, the automaker says that its “first…

My first Tesla was delivered on June 29, one day before the end of the second quarter (wink, wink, Tesla). So that means my husband and I have now been driving our Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus for two months. Here’s how it’s going. (Oh, and our car’s name is Nigel, since a couple of people asked.) This is a follow-up to my first post, which was about becoming a new Tesla Model 3…