Richard Truett

Ray Auto Group invests in future EV customers with Dine-N-Drive events

Richard Truett

Automotive News Staff Reporter Richard Truett gives a tour of the 2024 Honda Prologue. Specs: $59,750 estimated price as tested; 281 miles maximum range; dual-motor AWD 288 hp or single-motor FWD 212 hp

Column: EV ecosystem continues to thrive, despite slowing growth

Gen Z and millennials have the passion for collecting cars, but what they want to drive is very different from the Mustangs, Camaros, MGBs, TR6s and Porsche 914s their parents loved.

An industry has been spawned. An ecosystem around the electric motor and battery is teeming with life. And whether Americans can be lured into an EV with the promise of a $7,500 tax credit is not going to put the brakes on electrification.

Prestone introduced new coolants for EVs at The Battery Show this week. They have been engineered to reduce fires caused by thermal runaway, prevent corrosion in high-voltage components and improve efficiency of plug-in hybrid vehicles, battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Nissan is joining ChargeScape, the alliance created by three of its competitors: Ford Motor Co., American Honda Motor Co. and BMW.

Al Kammerer, engineering consultant and former Ford product development chief, talks about why he switched to an EV. Kammerer also explains the need for better EV infrastructure and shared some advice for new EV buyers.

Bruno Sacco, the designer of many of the top-selling vehicles in Mercedes-Benz history, died in Germany on Sept. 19 at age 90.