Hertz Global Holdings Inc. plans to buy 65,000 electric vehicles from Polestar over the next five years, a bet that its renters are both EV-curious and eager to drive brands beyond Tesla.

At the moment, the future of transportation is at the Walmart on Regional Airport Boulevard in Bentonville, Ark.

Rivian’s R1T electric pickup, the rig expected to hitch up an $80 billion IPO, is 217 inches long. That makes it almost 15 inches shorter than Ford Motor Co.’s world-beating F-150 and almost 7 inches longer than Ford’s midsized pickup, the Ranger.

Nuro Inc., which has unmanned delivery pods scurrying around Southwestern streets, said that it will build a $40 million facility to assemble and test a new generation of autonomous vehicles in Nevada.

While venture capitalists salivate over sentient transport trucks and robot SUVs that can safely navigate a Boston blizzard, some of the smartest self-driving engineers are making progress flipping chicken sandwiches.

In the nascent electric pickup wars, Detroit won’t need tents.

Gatik, a Silicon Valley-based self-driving startup, has begun hauling cargo for Loblaws Inc., Canada’s largest grocer.

With little more than sketches and not fully baked prototypes, a crowd of electric vehicle startups have rounded up billions from investors. Can that fundraising engine drive a hydrogen-powered car?

The electric vehicle industry has quietly hit one of its biggest milestones to date, as the number of public charging plugs around the world ticks above the 1 million mark.

As COVID-19 crunches car sales globally, a backlog of orders has helped electric vehicles maintain momentum in much of the world — better than gas-powered cars and trucks.