Writer and occasional reluctant perpetrator of engine swaps, James O'Neil is a malaise era enthusiast and also fascinated by the many ways the auto industry has since recovered from those dark days.

Mercedes-Benz starts road testing first solid-state-battery vehicle using Factorial Energy battery cells (Source: Mercedes-Benz) The “holy grail” of electric vehicle battery tech may be here sooner ...

A lightly modified Mercedes-Benz EQS electric sedan drove over 700 miles on a full charge. It still had over 85 miles of range to spare when the trip was over, making the performance even more ...

Mercedes-Benz is calling the new battery tech “a true gamechanger” after hitting a new benchmark. A Mercedes EQS, powered by solid-state batteries, traveled 750 miles without stopping, and it still ...

The race to reinvent the electric vehicle battery just crossed a line that had existed mostly in lab demos and investor decks ...

Mercedes-Benz is bringing solid-state batteries to its EVs sooner rather than later. The company’s head of development said the range-boosting batteries will hit the market “before the end of the ...

It was easy to doubt solid-state batteries until someone finally got one into a car. For over a decade, various automakers have attempted to produce an EV with a solid-state battery instead of a ...