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Waymo's Las Vegas robotaxis are queuing at public chargers, and drivers noticed
Days after Waymo opened to public riders in Las Vegas, ride-hail drivers reported waits of up to 90 minutes at an Electrify America site. Waymo says it limits its public charging.
New York hands its curbside charging buildout to a Brooklyn startup
The city picked Brooklyn's it's electric to build a curbside Level 2 network aimed first at ride-hail drivers who park on the street. Pricing has not been set yet.
Bolt wants 25,000 Lucid robotaxis. Lucid delivered 15,841 cars last year
Lucid and Bolt announced a plan for at least 25,000 autonomous EVs in Europe, but there is no order, no named driving software and the midsize platform has been delayed.
A ₹1.95 crore BMW, a ₹1.5 lakh scooter and an idle Ford plant walk into Tamil Nadu
BMW now builds the i7 in Chennai, Ultraviolette is spending ₹779 crore on a Hosur plant, and Ford may convert its shuttered factory into an EV hub. None of it is aimed at Indian buyers first.
The electric trucks at Hannover are ready. Europe's plugs are not
CATL launched a 1,000 km truck battery at IAA Transportation, Scania and BYD brought hardware you can order, and Germany promised 4,200 motorway charging points. Electric trucks remain 3% of the German fleet.
The 2026 Ioniq 5 got up to $9,800 cheaper. The smart money is on the middle trims
Hyundai cut 2026 Ioniq 5 prices by up to $9,800 depending on trim, changed the value math against the Rivian R2, and made the SEL the pick of the range.
Sodium-ion batteries are closing in on LFP cost parity, and the last excuse is energy density
CATL expects sodium-ion to match LFP on cost by the end of 2026. The chemistry's remaining problem is density — and two 2025 research papers just attacked it from different angles.
Ford wants 100,000 people a year to buy a $29,945 electric truck it hasn't fully shown yet
Ford is targeting 100,000 first-year sales for the Fathom, a midsize electric pickup starting at $29,945 that rides on a $5 billion factory bet and won't reach buyers until fall 2027.
The Escalade IQ's 205 kWh pack is a road-trip cheat code. Overnight, it is a math problem
MotorTrend's long-term Cadillac adds 137 miles in 15 minutes on a DC stall, then needs two nights on a 6.6 kW home charger. Electrek spent $750 filling the same pack across 2,650 miles.
Tesla's wheel-less Cybercab still has a steering wheel. It is a D-pad on a screen
Two Austin riders found a hidden virtual joystick on the Cybercab's cabin display. Tesla never showed it. Firefighters were trained on it, and one called it no silver bullet.
Toyota's newest EV can lose drive power. The fix is a dealer visit, not a download
About 10,000 2026 C-HR crossovers in North America can shut down under regenerative braking when the pack is already full. Toyota's patch is software, but it will not fly through the air.
Kia's new GT trio gets fake gears and real grip, but still charges for 31 minutes
The EV3 GT, EV4 GT and EV5 GT add dual motors and adaptive suspension without gaining the EV6 GT's faster 800-volt charging.
Dacia moved the Spring to Europe, then gave its tiny battery 250 km of range
The second-generation Spring is wider, quicker and built in Slovenia, but its most revealing decision is a modest 27.5 kWh LFP battery.
BYD's battery share fell while the market grew 20%. Its own factory was the bottleneck
SNE Research has CATL at 39.9% of global EV battery installations and BYD down to 14.7%. BYD's chairman has already explained why: the second-generation Blade line could not keep up.
Why Chinese dealers shun five-year-old EVs despite the battery data
About four in five Chinese used-car dealers reject EVs over five years old. Measured degradation and a new battery-health standard show why better diagnostics matter.
ProLogium's solid-state cell passed the tests. Its factory makes 0.5 GWh a year
A 381 Wh/kg all-solid-state cell is now in commercial production in Taiwan, validated by TUV and UL Solutions. The output is roughly 6,000 car packs a year.
EVs cost 33% less to drive in Europe, unless you have nowhere to park
The ICCT's EV Transition Check 2026 has a headline number and a footnote. Drivers who charge at home save a third on energy. Drivers who rely entirely on public chargers save five per cent.
China wants 18-month car programmes. Its regulator just pulled the handbrake
Surprise factory inspections, a 4.27-million-vehicle recall and a proposal to double mandatory road testing. Beijing is trying to slow an industry it spent a decade teaching to sprint, and its own executives are split on whether that is possible.
The Audi A2 e-tron is an ID.3 in a very expensive suit, and the tailoring works
Audi's reborn A2 shares its MEB platform and 400-volt architecture with Volkswagen's ID.3. Hands-on walkarounds show where the extra money went, and where it did not.
Donut Lab's 409 Wh/kg result is real. It still does not prove the chemistry
VTT measured exceptional energy density from one Donut Battery cell. The report validates the number, but not solid-state chemistry or production readiness.
Oslo keeps half its cars electric with 6 kW plugs, not megawatt stalls
Nearly 49 percent of Oslo's passenger cars are battery-electric. Most of the public plugs that feed them are slow AC posts where people already park.
Mazda's CX-6e does 240 miles at 80 mph. The platform is still Changan's
Autogefühl's Autobahn loop put 390 km in the CX-6e at 130 km/h. Auto Express scored the cabin and the beeps, then asked whether any of it feels like a Mazda.
Polestar put a rear window on the 4, and called the result an SUV
The windowless coupe now has a squared-off twin with glass, 25 mm more headroom and a lower starting price. First looks still call it an estate, and it remains 400-volt.
Jeep and Ram's range-extended EVs slip again, and Stellantis says nothing has slipped
The Grand Wagoneer EREV moves from May to November and the Ram 1500 REV to April 2027. Stellantis calls both programmes on track. Suppliers call the extra months validation time.
Tesla's rare-earth-free Cybercab motor: what the 5DU shows, and what Tesla left out
An 18 per cent smaller, 25 per cent lighter drive unit with no rare earths is a genuine supply-chain achievement. The efficiency headline is the least important part of it.
RivianOS 2 lands on the R1, and the parity claim comes with hardware asterisks
Software 2026.31 puts every Rivian on one codebase. Gen 1 R1 owners still get a different rendering engine, a different AI layer, and a subscription wall around two of the best new features.
BYD's tiny Racco has 1,500 Japanese orders, but its first road trip found the catch
BYD's electric kei car is drawing buyers beyond the base model. An independent Japan road trip shows why, and where its charging hardware still feels modest.
Toyota says the Highlander EV isn't delayed. It also isn't building it until January
Nikkei says Georgetown won't start the three-row electric Highlander before January 2027; Toyota says the timeline hasn't changed. Both can be true, and the Subaru Getaway is stuck behind it either way.
Tesla opens Austin Cybercab rides as NHTSA starts a certification audit
Tesla has opened its 45-car Cybercab fleet to customers in Austin. NHTSA has begun an audit query into how the no-controls vehicle was certified.
UK electric-car share reaches 29.8% in August, but the 2026 average is 25.6%
Battery-electric cars took 29.8% of UK registrations in the low-volume August market. Across 2026 so far, their 25.6% share remains below the 33% headline mandate target.
EVs were Australia’s largest powertrain in August. The fine print makes the record more useful
Battery EVs took 24.9% of Australian new-car deliveries in August and the Model Y led every model. The combined ledger and year-to-date figures temper the victory lap.
500,000 battery tests say the pack is fine. The car next to it may not be
Aviloo's used-EV report puts the Ioniq 5 near 94% at 150,000 km and Teslas lower. The 12-point spread inside one model is the number a buyer actually needs.
Skoda sealed the charge port, then drove a Peaq 936 km
A production Peaq 90 went Czechia to Zandvoort at 9.2 kWh/100 km under TÜV watch. The drivers who did it said you would never drive a family SUV that way.
London's first robotaxi still has a licensed driver in the front seat
Uber added Wayve's Ford Mustang Mach-E fleet to the app on Thursday. Fifteen cars, a safety operator, and a right turn in gridlock that still needed a human hand.
Washington Is Rewriting the MPG Rules, and the EV Math Changes With Them
A fleetwide 34.5 mpg target for 2031 instead of 50.4, a quiet reclassification fight over whether pickups count as cars, and a separate rule narrowing heavy-truck standards. What the CAFE rewrite does to the electric side of the business.
What a Silverado EV Owner Learned About Adapters, Split Packs and a 30-Day Battery Wait
A 2026 Silverado EV pulled 306 kW on an 800-volt charger but fell to about 80 kW through a Tesla adapter. Then it stopped charging entirely, and the month that followed exposed how little owners can learn about EV battery replacements.
Range Rover Electric fits 118.5 kWh into the old body. Clearance is the cost
Range Rover kept the shape, cabin and off-road brief, then fitted a double-stacked battery and 350 kW charging. Early drives show what survived, and what still needs proving.
A plumber tested an electric van for two weeks. Overnight charging decided the verdict
Public rapid charging made an electric van only slightly cheaper than diesel at 20–22p a mile. A full overnight charge cost about £6.
Rivian's 1,025-horsepower R1T costs $124,000. Its charging is less exotic
The quad-motor R1T is among the quickest vehicles on sale, but it is not especially efficient, tops out at 220 kW and still lacks massaging seats.
The 800-volt badge is a bracket, not a number: four conditions decide whether it pays
Higher pack voltage can sharply cut fast-charging time when the charger, battery temperature and state of charge cooperate. At home, it changes nothing.
Mahindra calls it battery-as-a-service. Its small print calls it two loans
Mahindra's EV prices look up to ₹10 lakh lower under BaaS, but buyers own the battery, repay it for as long as eight years and do not pay by distance.
Ather launched a 200 km Konarc. Buyers may wait a year for that battery
The Konarc arrives with sensible hardware and two orderable range choices, while its headline 200 km version sits on a much later timetable.
Hyundai's 600-mile Santa Fe is an EV with a generator, built in Alabama
Hyundai has put a series-hybrid Santa Fe on the 2027 U.S. calendar at more than 600 miles of combined range, with a pack under half the size of a comparable EV. Genesis follows at 640.
Lucid's biggest recall is a software fuse on the lights. 6,466 Airs still need it
NHTSA 26V540 covers 27,185 Lucid Airs after an eFuse left exterior lighting circuits energised. Three fires and four smoke reports are on file. The OTA fix shipped in July.
Volvo's 2026 EX90 hits 370 kW. The highway range is still a boxy SUV
Out of Spec measured about 370 kW on Volvo's 800-volt EX90, a real jump from the 400-volt car that needed 630 amps for 250 kW. Highway range on 22-inch wheels remains in the mid-200s.
Three prototypes, four months: inside Slate's race to build a $24,950 pickup
Slate has a working body shop in a converted Indiana printing plant, 180,000 reservation holders and a Q4 delivery promise. The rest of the factory is still coming together.
Tesla's public Megacharger rollout is hiding in permit filings
Tesla has two confirmed customer-facing Megachargers near the Los Angeles ports and 64 more locations on its map. Pilot's rollout remains difficult to track.
A quarter of US shoppers strongly consider an EV. Sales share is 5.6%
J.D. Power's consideration figure is climbing again while Cox counted 77,266 new EV sales in July. The gap between interest and purchases shows where the US market is stuck.
BYD's Brazil flash-charge demo did 13% to 100% in 9:31. Now build 1,000 of them
A Denza Z9 GT reached a displayed 100% in roughly nine and a half minutes at Interlagos. The charging worked; BYD's much harder promise is turning one battery-buffered showcase into a national network.
Aptera let an outside lab wire up its solar car. The number survived
TÜV Rheinland spent three days instrumenting every solar string on Aptera's three-wheeler and measured 4.23 to 4.75 kWh a day at the battery — up to 47 miles of driving on sunlight. The solar-yield claim now has independent support. The balance sheet is another matter.
MG Hector Tomahawk EV battery rental: the break-even maths
Battery-as-a-Service cuts up to Rs 6.01 lakh off the Hector Tomahawk EV's price. Run the break-even and the scheme only beats a five-year loan below about 2,500 km a month. MG says uptake across its portfolio remains below 7 per cent.
China's seven-million-car recall day puts emergency door releases in focus
Door-release recalls cover more than four million cars, led by 2.98 million Teslas. A separate Tesla driver-monitoring action took the day's combined filings above seven million.
EV borrowers showed lower late-payment risk but paid higher rates
Atlas Public Policy matched 379,000 Capital One auto loans to EPA fuel-economy data. EV borrowers had 50 per cent lower predicted serious late-payment risk than the average group, yet paid higher interest rates.
EVgo's Warren flagship puts its 400-stall charging plan into view
The 12-stall canopy site in Warren, Michigan shows what EVgo and GM promised in 2024. It is a useful upgrade, but the 400-stall programme is still in its early miles.
Battery-plant storage pivots run into data-center backlash
Ford and GM are finding grid-storage work for battery capacity built around stronger EV forecasts. Data-center demand offers growth, along with a fast-spreading local political fight.
What four road tests say about the Lucid Gravity's 450-mile rating
Full-charge tests put the Lucid Gravity between 310 and 401.7 miles, while a separate charging test recovered 152 miles in 15 minutes. Each number answers a different road-trip question.
Binder placement can make or break a fast-charging anode
A KAIST digital twin shows how binder distribution can hide local lithium-plating risk even when a graphite anode delivers similar headline capacity.
Renault Sends 100 Twingos to British Showrooms Before Orders Open
More than 100 left-hand-drive Renault Twingo E-Tech display cars have crossed the Channel to UK dealers. Customers can inspect them, but cannot test-drive them, while the £100 R Pass remains the route to priority ordering.
Used EV price gains are concentrated below $40,000
Recurrent has used EV prices up 5.1% since January, but the gains sit almost entirely under $40,000. Above that line, values are still falling, and Autotrader's ten biggest UK price fallers are all electric.
BMW iX3 range varies by 51 miles across wheel and tyre options
EPA ratings for the 2027 BMW iX3 span 383 to 434 miles across its wheel and tyre packages. The 22-inch summer setup even beats the standard 20-inch all-season configuration.
Ford's Louisville assembly tree is 40% quicker, but nets 15%
Ford says its rebuilt Louisville plant can assemble the $28,350 Fathom pickup 40% faster before added automation and quality checks reduce the net gain to 15%.
Why one failed EV battery module can still trigger a whole-pack quote
A Nissan Leaf case, an independent UK workshop and CATL repair rollout show why service access, not just battery health, shapes used-EV risk.
Tesla Model Y L: 358 tested miles and a 359-mile highway projection
Edmunds measured 358 miles on its mixed route. A separate highway drive projected 359 miles from observed consumption. The near-match is striking, but the methods are not equivalent.
Asahi Kasei found 10% more battery energy hiding in the first charge
A lithium-carbonate pre-doping method recovers capacity that silicon-rich cells normally lose on the first charge, without claiming to cure silicon swelling.
Tesla's cheapest Model Y is two packs. Highway tests finally gave each a number
A U.S. Standard held 4.13 mi/kWh to 285.6 miles at 70 mph. Europe's 64 kWh LFP car just posted 116 Wh/km at 90. Same badge, two batteries, two honest highway figures.
Truck Charging's Real Bottleneck Is the Utility Queue, Not the Charger
America's largest new electric truck hub secured 9 MW. A Chinese depot north of Chengdu has 51 MW of charging equipment installed. The comparison shows why interconnection, distributed architecture and load scheduling now set the pace of freight electrification.
Luxury EVs got cheap. The bills that come with them did not
Five-year-old electric cars have shed 57.2% of their value on average, and premium models lead the fall. Three buying accounts converge on the same conclusion: the discount is the least useful number in the listing.
BMW's oldest factory is going all-electric, and the i3 has to pay for it
Munich is building the electric i3 after a four-year live conversion. BMW says the new line cuts manufacturing cost another 10 percent.
California wants 9 GW from parked EVs. Germany is selling the kit
GridLab says 10 percent of California's projected EV fleet could cover a third of the state's 2036 long-duration storage target. The cars that can actually export still come as a branded charger, tariff and app.
That used EV says its battery is healthy. The number may not mean what you think
A 1,114-vehicle study found onboard battery-health figures often missed real capacity gaps of 12 to 25 percent, which is why a used-EV percentage still needs an independent check.
The Rivian R2 went 253 miles and 304 miles. Both range tests can be right
Three independent Rivian R2 tests produced a 51-mile spread. Their routes, speeds and tyres explain more than the headline numbers do.
Europe's EV battery passport has 71 fields, but buyers will not see all of them
New EU guidance maps the data work behind the 2027 battery passport, and a real limit: access depends on who is asking.
Porsche Cayenne Electric goes 345 miles, then adds 80 kWh in 15 minutes
Independent testing put Porsche's Cayenne Electric at 344.7 miles at 70 mph, then 185.8 miles after a 15-minute charge. Its charging curve is the standout.
Connecticut wants public EV chargers to become a statewide grid resource
A 1,000-port pilot found that brief, rewarded charging pauses could cut peak demand without requiring compatible vehicle telematics.
The used Ioniq 5's worst failure now has 15 years of cover
Hyundai and Kia extended ICCU warranties to 15 years and 180,000 miles on early E-GMP cars, and the paper follows subsequent owners. Used Ioniq 5 and EV6 prices already assume the risk. The build date still decides whether you get it.
EVgo Is Buying Tesla Hardware, but the Map May Be the Bigger Prize
EVgo will own hundreds of Tesla V4 Superchargers that Tesla operates on its behalf. The hardware adds capacity, while Tesla navigation puts the new sites in front of millions of drivers.
The $31,385 Kia EV3 is the decoy. The 321-mile Wind is the one to watch
Kia's smallest U.S. EV finally has a price, but the base car gives up 100 miles of range. The better argument starts one trim higher.
School's out. The buses spent July feeding the grid
On a July afternoon in Shawnee, Oklahoma, four electric school buses pushed more than 800 kWh onto the utility during a heat wave. California districts now bank about $5,000 a bus a year. The car in the driveway is still waiting on hardware.
A cheap used EV can still bring an expensive insurance quote
US quote data puts the average EV insurance premium 42% above combustion cars, but newer models narrow the gap. Repair access and parts support help explain why.
New York's curbside EV chargers are packed. The city is adding 600 more
PlugNYC's 88 curbside points are occupied more than 70% of the time. New York is now betting that 600 more Level 2 sockets can unlock EV ownership for apartment dwellers and working drivers.
Genesis GV90 hides the B-pillar and still will not print a price
The GV90 Neolun’s coach doors swallow the B-pillar and swivel the front seats. Genesis quotes 310 miles from a 123.5 kWh pack after a San Francisco reveal that left reviewers without a sticker.
Britain reopens its EV sales mandate while a Sunderland battery line waits
The UK government has put its 2030 electric car sales target back on the table just as AESC shelves a third production line in Sunderland. Manufacturers, charging investors and EV bodies read the same numbers very differently.
Mercedes CLA 350 beats its EPA range by 73 miles at 70 mph
Tom Moloughney drove a dual-motor CLA 350 4MATIC 385 miles at a constant 70 mph. Norwegian and German testers, on colder roads and faster autobahns, keep finding the same surplus.
V2G's price tag is settled. The cars to collect it are not
PG&E is now paying up to $4,000 up front for bidirectional home charging and GM's own study values vehicle-to-grid at five to 15 times smart charging. The shortage has moved from proof to product.
Used EV prices are firming: inspect the battery, not just the bargain
Used electric cars can still be good value, but a firmer market makes battery evidence, charging checks and warranty details the real negotiating tools.
IONNA outscores Tesla Superchargers in J.D. Power's 2026 study
The eight-automaker network scored 807 in its first year of eligibility, ahead of Mercedes-Benz and Rivian. Tesla Superchargers dropped to fourth at 701. The ranking sits on roughly 150 sites, not a national map.
Mercedes C-Class Electric launch drives reveal a wide range spread
Two launch-drive trip computers pointed to roughly 350 miles from the Mercedes C400 4MATIC, while a third reviewer reported better efficiency. All three results need a proper controlled test.