The American start-up company Faraday Future, which brought the futuristic study of the FFZero01 electric supercar to CES last year, this time presented its first pre-production vehicle, the Faraday Future FF91, which will be a direct competitor to the Tesla Model X.
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Newcomer to the automotive world, Californian startup Ludic Motors has unveiled its first car – the 1,000 HP Lucid Air luxury electric sedan to much interest and admiration. It is priced in the same range as Tesla's Model S, which it is a direct competitor to and is likely to win quite a few buyers.
China's technological offensive continues. The NIO EP9 is the fastest electric car in the world! Chinese products have never been a concept of quality, but overnight they not only caught the connection with the West, but also surpassed it in many ways, and to the right! Smartphones are a good example. Yesterday they were copying, today they are innovating. They have now taken up the car business with the same zeal. The proof is the NextEV company, which presented the NIO EP9 electric car at London's Saatchi&Saatchi gallery, which is said to be the fastest electric car in the world.
This is what the new Volkswagen e-Golf will look like, the electric version of the new Golf, which Volkswagen presented not long ago in all body versions except electrified. The new e-Golf has a larger battery, longer range and the ability to charge faster at classic city charging stations.
The Jaguar I-Pace is a concept electric crossover that heralds Jaguar's entry into electric vehicles and with which it announces the completion of the range of SUVs, where it now competes with the F-Pace model, the first SUV of this 'wild cat'. The I-Pace has a lithium-ion battery built into the bottom, and the passenger cabin is uncharacteristically pushed forward.
More and more alternative drive cars are knocking on the door of series production. Thus, conventional roads are already regular guests of electric vehicles, and now solar cell cars are also flirting with them. One such is the Sunswift eVe, the solar car of Australian students from the University of New South Wales, who want to drive it on the streets of Sydney as early as July 2015. The car should pass all safety and other standards required for vehicle registration by then. This will make it the first vehicle of its kind in the southern hemisphere.
The father of Tesla, Elon Musk, tweeted that the electric Roadster, the model that put Tesla on the global automotive map, is getting an upgrade and that it will be a real "long-distance runner" just like the gasoline ones. The new Tesla Roadster 3.0 is said to be able to travel 644 kilometers on a single charge, which is a third (31%) more than we have been able to squeeze out of the Roadster so far.
The Tesla S has collected an extraordinary number of titles and prestigious awards in the last year. So it became the best car of the year, won the title of the most important car model of the last 20 years…. there are even more such and different titles, and practically all motoring newsrooms in the world agree that Tesla is today's insight into the future of motoring. So something is definitely changing thinking and views on the automotive industry. The Tesla S model has been present on Slovenian roads for a long time, but still unofficially. That's why we got it for testing by a specialist for the import of used vehicles to Slovenia - Autoborker.
The International Innovation Fair CES 2014 brings an interesting concept to the electric car market. The new C-MAX Solar Energi Concept is a hybrid vehicle that can be charged via solar cells on the roof.