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Marc Carter is the Editor-in-Chief and founder of The Torque Report.

2023 Acura Integra will reportedly come standard with a CVT

2023 Acura Integra Prototype

Acura still hasn't unveiled the production version of the 2023 Integra, but it will start taking orders for the new Integra on Thursday, March 10. That means we should get more news soon, but in the meantime a new leak claims that the Integra will come standard with a CVT. When Acura unveiled the 2023 Integra prototype late last year,...

Volvo XC40 Recharge gets a facelift and C40 Recharge gets a single-motor version

Volvo XC40 Recharge Twin, Sage Green

Volvo has announced some updates to its two electric vehicles, XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge models. The XC40 Recharge gets some styling updates to bring its faec in line with the C40 Recharge, while the C40 gets a new entry-level version with one electric motor. For the XC40 Recharge, the styling changes are minimal, so much so that you probably...

Honda and Sony team up for a new EV brand

sony vision s-o2

Sony recently unveiled two electric concept cars, which lead us to ponder the idea of a Sony-brand EV. Well Sony is definitely moving forward with those plans, since Honda and Sony have announced that the two companies are teaming up to create a new brand of electric vehicles. Honda and Sony haven't released a lot of details, but the goal...

Volvo to test wireless EV charging tech for three years

Volvo Cars tests new wireless charging technology

Charging an EV is pretty clunky do to the charging wires, so the idea of wireless charging is ideal. Volvo has announced that it is going to test new wireless charging technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. For three years Volvo is going to test a small fleet of the electric Volvo XC40 Recharge which will be used as taxis by Cabonline....

Kia to launch 14 new EVs by 2027, including an electric truck

Kia Concept EV9

Hyundai just announced that it's expanding its future lineup of electric vehicles and now Kia has made a similar announcement. In 2020 Kia revealed its "Plan S" strategy, which would see the brand introduce 11 electric vehicles by 2026. Now it's decided to make even more EVs, since Kia now plans to launch 14 new battery electric vehicles by...

Hyundai to launch 11 new EVs by 2030, Genesis to get 6 EVs

2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5

Hyundai recently introduced the Ioniq 5, which is easily one of the best electric vehicles you can buy today. The good news is that Korea is working on several new EVs, including the Ioniq 6 sedan and Ioniq 7 SUV. Hyundai has now announced that it will launch 11 new EVs for the Hyundai brand by 2030 and six...

Ford splits its businesses into Model e and Blue divisions

Unleashing the Ford+ Plan

Ford has announced a big change to its structure, which will see it split up its vehicle divisions into two separate businesses. The businesses have been divided by electric and internal combustion vehicles. The electric division is called "Model e" while ICE vehicles will be organized under the "Blue" division. https://youtu.be/sUljrHwgDBo “We have made tremendous progress in a short period of...

Polestar Oâ‚‚ concept is a cool electric roadster

Polestar O2 Concept

Nearly every automaker has announced plans to switch to fully electric lineups in the next ten years. We've seen several concepts that preview these future EVs, but for the most part they have all been electric crossovers, sedans and trucks. But what about an electric roadster? Polestar has unveiled its latest concept car, the O2. The O2 concept is a hard-top...

Stellantis to introduce 25 EVs in America by 2030

Chrysler Airflow Concept

On Tuesday Stellantis unveiled the more details about its electrification plans, through 2030. The big news is that we got to our first look at the first electric Jeep and new teasers of the electric Ram 1500. But the company isn't stopping there, since it is planning to launch 75 new electric vehicles by 2030 and at least 25...

Ram 1500 EV teased showing off its huge running lights

Ram 1500 EV Teaser

On Tuesday Stellantis revealed more plans about its electrified future with the reveal of the first Jeep EV. It has also announced that a Ram ProMaster EV will arrive in 2023, which will be followed by the Ram 1500 EV electric pickup. Ram hasn't announced when we'll get to see the electric Ram 1500, but it has released new...

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