Two of the key selling points of hybrid and electric vehicles are that they’re both more energy-efficient and, over time, need less maintenance than regular internal combustion engine vehicles. Both ...

Conventional car brakes are built with one thing in mind, the purpose of stopping the car. Since this purpose is essential, a great deal of time and resources were invested in the evolution of such ...

You may have heard that electric cars have actually been around way longer than the gasoline-chugging vehicles we all love. However, are you aware that modern EVs are not the first to utilize ...

GILROY (KPIX) -- After an examiner flunked a teen driving a Tesla due to its unique brake system, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has instructed its staff to treat electric vehicles in the ...

While it may seem like electric and hybrid vehicles are a recent innovation of the 21 st century, these technologies have been around for over a century. The first electric car, while extremely rough ...

Regenerative braking recaptures the energy spent slowing a vehicle down and, by virtue of a vehicle’s electric motor switching into a generating mode, helps charge the batteries. Here the process is ...

There are multiple methods that automakers utilize to make hybrid and battery-electric vehicles (BEVs, more commonly referred to as EVs) as efficient as possible. One is improving their overall ...