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Improvements to Electric Vehicles Ease Concerns About Range Loss in Cold Climates

Features like heat pumps, which prevent significant drops in range, are now standard on newer models.

By Kristoffer Tigue

A Tesla charges in a salt and ice covered parking lot in Chicago on Jan. 17, 2024. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
A Kia EV6 is displayed during the Everything Electric London expo on March 28 in England. Credit: John Keeble/Getty Images

Making Sense of the Year So Far in EV Sales

By Dan Gearino

Terry Berg, who has been selling cars at Cornerstone Ford since 1987, leads a customer through the showroom at the Elk River dealership. He drives an EV and likes selling them, but finds a lot of his clients are reluctant to make the leap. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

How Two Top Car Salesmen Pitch EVs, One in Trump Country and One on Biden’s Turf

By Dan Gearino

About a dozen vintage Scout sport utility vehicles stood at the entrance to the Feb. 15 groundbreaking at the Blythewood, S.C. site where Volkswagen is investing $2 billion to resurrect the brand as an electric vehicle. Credit: Scout Motors

South Carolina Welcomes Multibillion Dollar Electric Vehicle Projects, Even Though Many Echo Trump’s Harsh EV Critiques

By Marianne Lavelle

Electric cars recharge at a Tesla Supercharger station on Jan. 16 in Burbank, Calif. Tesla is the only major maker of EVs that has succeeded in building a large charging network. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

U.S. Electric Vehicles Sales Are Poised to Rise a Lot in 2024, Despite What You May Have Heard

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s a Cool New EV, but You Can’t Have It

By Dan Gearino

A Volkswagen ID 3 electric car is seen in a glass cage during a press conference in Berlin on May 8, 2019. Credit: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Well That Was Fast: Volkswagen Quickly Catching Up to Tesla

By Dan Gearino

Mark Reuss, General Motors president speaks at their Detroit- Hamtramck assembly plant on Jan. 27, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

The Solid-State Race: Legacy Automakers Reach for Battery Breakthrough

By Dan Gearino

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