One-pedal driving is a feature on some electric vehicles where, under most circumstances, you use only the accelerator pedal to both speed up and slow down. When activated, the brake pedal only comes ...

Apart from being environmentally friendly and technologically advanced, most fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles offer many features that make driving much easier than it once used to be. One ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

Electric vehicles drive very similarly to combustion cars, but what happens when you lift off the accelerator is quite different. Automakers have put a lot of effort into making the electric vehicle ...

Many plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) offer a one-pedal driving technique. This unique PHEV and EV benefit provides the ability to stop and go using only the ...

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 ...

One of the niftier aspects of electric cars is that they eschew the need for multi-speed transmissions, instead leveraging an electric motor's instant torque that affords full and immediate ...

No matter how much carmakers try to convince buyers of the opposite, electric vehicles are fundamentally different than gas cars. Not only because there's a different propulsion system, but also ...

Progress is often something that requires learning and adjustment. When the world switched from straight-cut gears to modern synchromesh transmissions, drivers had to eliminate the habit of double ...

Electric cars are similar to combustion-powered cars in some ways, but very different in others. One key difference is an electric car’s regenerative braking system, which uses the electric motor to ...

Automakers have put a lot of effort into making the electric vehicle driving experience as similar to a combustion vehicle as possible. Going from combustion to electric these days doesn’t require ...