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 ...

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 ...

It can boost range and help save your brakes, but it’s also a feature with wildly different approaches depending on the automaker and customer preferences. When my dad taught me and my siblings to ...

Automotive brakes haven’t changed much in nearly a century. Decades ago, engineers came up with a great system, and have largely stuck with it. With the dawn of electric vehicles, automakers had the ...

One-pedal driving is a mainstay of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, and many drivers love it. But Chinese officials have ...

Talk to any electric car driver, and he will tell you how he loves one-pedal driving. If a given electric car does not offer that capability, it will probably be criticized for that. Well, the ID.4 ...

There's surprising old-school technology making a comeback on some of Volkswagen group's most important EV models, headlined by the Audi Q4 E-Tron – drum brakes. The technology's reappearance on a $51 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Jason Muccioli, a College of Engineering senior, displays a regenerating brake launching system ...