Nobody could have predicted ten years ago that one day, Hyundai’s fledgling luxury spin-off would celebrate its tenth anniversary by taking aim at Crewe and Goodwood. Very short ten years after the stately G90 limousine first cleared its throat, Genesis has revealed the GV90 – a huge electric leviathan with rear coach doors, front seats that pirouette like a fairground… Read more…

Google has fixed two very frustrating bugs in Android Auto. First, with the latest update, Android Auto 17.4, a connection bug that caused the connection to drop or freeze every few minutes on some phones and car head units has now been squashed, according to a member of the Android Auto team. This issue affected both wired and wireless Android… Read more…

While Geely is building its first in-house solid-state battery pack plant, Geely Holding is working on its next-generation solid-state battery for EVs, which is supposed to offer a whopping 500 Wh/kg energy density. If Geely indeed achieves that number, it will make the batteries twice as space-efficient as the best lithium-ion battery packs currently in the market. Right now the… Read more…

If someone told you a decade ago that an executive Buick would pack a rear-drive electric muscle and an ultra-plush cabin for less than the price of a bare-bones hatchback, you probably would have laughed them out of the room. But a decade is a lot of time, and things don’t stay still – especially in China. That’s because in… Read more…

A single BMW test driver rolled out of the Shenyang manufacturing plant at dawn, pointed the snout of the new BMW iX3 toward the capital, and refused to stop until Beijing’s ring roads came into view. By the time he pulled into BMW’s R&D facility, the trip computer logged an eye-widening 1,030.2 km on a single charge – with a… Read more…

When Nio first began dotting the Chinese landscape with robotic battery swap stations, many dismissed the whole enterprise as an eccentric, money-burning vanity project. Conventional wisdom dictated that building huge drive-in mechanical vaults was a financial dead end – a capital incinerator bound to buckle under the weight of its own concrete. Rival carmakers took the easy route by telling… Read more…

Some time ago, we were invited to preview Xiaomi’s new SkyNomad N70 and N90, and we can now finally share everything we learned. Until now, the interior of the smaller N70 had remained under wraps, but after spending some time inside, we can reveal how it compares with its larger sibling. We have already covered the exterior of the SkyNomad… Read more…

Leather has enjoyed a century-long monopoly over luxury car interiors, but I always struggled to understand our obsession with it. In the heat of mid-July, it turns into a scorching skillet, and by January, it feels like you’re sitting on a block of ice. Then, after a decade of use it cracks like an old sofa. And despite all that,… Read more…

Building a desirable car from scratch has to be the quickest way on earth to incinerate a mountain of cash. Doing it when your background is stamping out pocket-sized glass rectangles and smart rice cookers makes it look like pure madness. And yet, here we are, watching Xiaomi shift sleek EVs at a pace that should keep legacy boardroom executives… Read more…

When Zhejiang Geely scooped up Volvo from Ford’s bargain basement back in 2010, the automotive establishment assumed the Chinese industrial giant would simply siphon off Swedish safety patents and leave Gothenburg to build sensible estate cars. Sixteen years later, the ultimate irony of that acquisition is coming into sharp, electrifying focus. Far from being a passive custodian, Geely is preparing… Read more…

According to a report from The Information, Tesla is getting ready to launch its autonomous Cybercab service in Austin, Texas, by the end of this month. However, this is an internal target, and there are indications Tesla might miss it. The interesting bit about Tesla’s Cybercab service is that the vehicles don’t have any pedals or a steering wheel, which… Read more…

Enzo Ferrari once famously quipped that he sold engines and threw the rest of the car in for free. For well over seven decades, that intoxicating, high-rpm combustion crescendo was the untouchable soul of Maranello. But when the Italian marque revealed the Luce – a quad-motor, five-seat electric super-tourer penned in partnership with LoveFrom – the traditionalists suffered a collective… Read more…

The automotive world has a way of delivering plot twists that no scriptwriter would have imagined a decade ago. Porsche – the sacred temple of screaming flat-sixes, and motorsport pedigree – has formally decided to decouple from its parent conglomerate’s emissions pool and jump into bed with Chinese EV maker XPeng. It sounds like an alternate-universe fever dream, but when… Read more…

In the last decade or so, screens have become an inseparable part of modern-day vehicles, but at some point, the pendulum has swung a bit too far. Nowadays, drivers are complaining about complicated UI and touch controls to perform simple tasks like adjusting the AC or even changing the radio station. And according to a study conducted by Vi Bilägare,… Read more…

Xiaomi launched the SU7, its first EV (which was also its first car), on March 28, 2024, and deliveries started on April 3. It’s been 28.5 months since then, and the company is today celebrating selling more than 500,000 of them. This would be a huge milestone for any carmaker, but it’s even more impressive for Xiaomi, which made such… Read more…

Hyundai unveiled the Ioniq 3 in April in its N Line trim, and then revealed the Standard version last month. Today, the company has announced that production is starting at its plant in Izmit, Türkiye. This is the first EV passenger car built by a foreign OEM in the country, and to ready it for production, the factory has received… Read more…

Genesis – the one brand that has always been the polite guest at the luxury automotive dinner party. Back in the day, the Germans traded blows with ever-stiffer suspensions and carbon-fiber trinkets, but the Korean brand carved out a serene niche of quilted leather, silent cabins, and rotating crystal spheres on the center console. It was civilized. It was dignified.… Read more…

Only three years ago, if you wanted four figures of driving range, you had to drag an internal combustion engine along for the ride. When BYD launched the original Denza N8 back in 2023, the electric variant came with a respectable 108.8 kWh battery pack. Buyers who suffered from chronic distance anxiety had to go for the plug-in hybrid model… Read more…

This is what Tesla had to deal with for nearly three years: dockworkers across Scandinavia refusing to touch roll-on/roll-off ferries, postal couriers locking up license plates in vaults, electricians cutting off maintenance to roadside Superchargers, and cleaners walking away from showrooms. For 1,021 grueling days, Sweden’s mighty IF Metall union staged what was supposed to be the ultimate stress test… Read more…

Today, Rivian has introduced the 2027 model year R1S and R1T. The headline feature for the R1S is that you can now order it with captain’s chairs in the second row. There are thus six seats in the car, and to reach the third row you have a center pass-through in between the two captain’s chairs. Each captain’s chair has… Read more…