Stopping to charge an electric car used to mean a bit of a lifestyle adjustment. You would pull into an empty service station, fight with a cable thick as an anaconda, pray the card reader works, and then pace around for forty-five minutes with the battery slowly seeping in electrons. If you enjoy the open road, the romance of a… Read more…

The Chinese EV market is relentless, chaotic, and can be very tricky to keep track of. A brand debuts on a Monday with world-changing promises, drops two compact crossovers on Wednesday, and rolls out an entirely new sub-brand by Friday morning. But there are exceptions to this rule, and sometimes a manufacturer realizes that approach gets you nowhere really, and… Read more…

Zeekr is rapidly expanding across Europe, its models becoming an increasingly common sight in markets where the brand had virtually no presence just a year ago. That growth reflects the strength of its current lineup, and today we get the chance to test one of its most ambitious models, the Zeekr 7GT Privilege AWD. Table of Contents: Exterior Interior Storage… Read more…

For the past couple of years, Fang Cheng Bao was the brand you associated with squared-off, boulder-crawling plug-in beasts – a sub-brand built specifically to pull wealthy outdoor hobbyists away from their Land Cruisers and Defenders. Yet here we are, watching that off-road-centric outfit park a pair of sleek EVs right in the Xiaomi SU7 and Tesla Model 3’s front… Read more…

As you are sitting inside an EV that packs enough energy to power a suburban semi-detached house for three days straight, run by silicon microchips executing billions of calculations per second, there’s one major problem with it. When you stumble out to the driveway on a freezing morning, the entire rolling supercomputer is stone-cold dead. Why? Because a primitive, 15… Read more…

Waymo has now announced its next destination for its autonomous ride-hailing service: Singapore. This comes after its US expansion, of course, but also its announcements about landing in Tokyo, London, and Munich. In Singapore, Waymo plans to start offering its autonomous ride-hailing service in 2028. Ahead of that, in 2027 trained specialists will drive manually around the city-state, “adapting the… Read more…

If you live in the West, then you’ve been told that building a genuinely compelling, long-range electric vehicle on a budget is about as realistic as finding a unicorn in a supermarket. Legacy automakers blame battery costs, supply chain bottlenecks, and the impossibility of putting modern tech into an affordable footprint. But if you are in Shenzhen (China), BYD will… Read more…

BMW has announced that it’s added a third shift to its plant in Debrecen, Hungary, for the production of the iX3. This comes after the second shift was added in February. So now, the factory is churning out iX3s left and right on a non-stop 24/7 schedule. This represents the fastest production ramp-up for any new BMW Group plant. And… Read more…

History very rarely repeats itself with the exact same script, but sometimes it does rent the same house. Back in the eighties, European and American markets were sweating over Japanese manufacturing, leading to export limits that dictated how many cars could cross oceans. Today, global trade is at it once more – this time the epicenter is Beijing, and the… Read more…

Building a battery-electric vehicle that weighs close to three metric tons, stretches longer than a London townhouse, and can carve up corners like a hot hatchback has become the norm. Manufacturers desperately try to convince us that a living room on wheels can also be a Nürburgring weapon. Sometimes, a car shows up that leans so hard into this madness,… Read more…

Lucid just announced a partnership with Bolt, the European ride-sharing service. Together they plan to deploy at least 25,000 autonomous Lucid vehicles across major European cities. The strategic partnership would combine Lucid’s software-defined vehicle platform with insights from Bolt’s European data, operating infrastructure, and mobility expertise. The 25,000 Lucid vehicles Bolt plans to deploy in Europe represent a quarter of… Read more…

Porsche unveiled the Cayenne Electric model year 2027 with new features, a slew of new color options and wireless charging capabilities. Yes, you read that right – the new Cayenne EV can now be ordered with wireless charging support. Porsche Cayenne Electric wireless charging The wireless charging feature is enabled by additional vehicle-side hardware and a costly ground pad that… Read more…

The sacred three-letter badge of the hot hatch has officially entered the electric age. Purists won’t be happy about it – rather than on the Golf, it arrives on its electric sibling, the ID.3. Fifty years after Wolfsburg lit a fire under the automotive world with a little red-trimmed box that practically invented the accessible performance segment, the GTI lineage… Read more…

On a chilly November evening in Hawthorne nearly a decade ago, Tesla was supposed to be showing off an electric semi-truck. But when the trailer doors dropped and the lights dimmed – a sleek, crimson wedge rolled out onto the stage. It was the second-gen Roadster. Four seats, 620 miles of highway range, and a sub-two-second sprint to 97 km/h… Read more…

The electric Mercedes C-Class debuted back in April, with only the C400 4MATIC available initially. Today, the company unveiled the C300 4MATIC and made it available for order as well. It’s a more affordable version with four-wheel-drive, but slightly lower power output and battery capacity. Notably, the company also promised a rear-wheel drive option (C300+) in the future with a… Read more…

If you own an EV, you know the drill – wet November evening, windy car park, you step out, collar pulled up, only to wrestle with a greasy, frozen, snake-like charging cable that has spent the afternoon soaking in road muck. It is by far one of the worst rituals in modern motoring. We can talk all day about 800V… Read more…

During the  IAA Transportation 2026 in Hanover, Germany, Kia unveiled its large PV7 EV van, marking the second all-electric van based on the E-GMP.S platform after the smaller PV5. This means the PV7 is just as flexible and spacious, allowing many configurations and variants. Kia plans to introduce up to 23 different PV7 variants over the next few years. The… Read more…

The electric car economics are simple if a little bit depressing: the bigger the battery, the deeper the dent in your pocket. Stash enough lithium under the floor to cross a country or two, and manufacturers will happily charge you the price of a half-decent yacht. At least, until now. BYD’s luxury offshoot, Denza, is literally tearing up that playbook… Read more…

Remember 2001? The E65 7 Series was a true baptism by fire for Bavarian fans. Chris Bangle’s bustle-back trunk lid was shocking, but the true terror was on the center console: an aluminum puck called iDrive. It had roughly 700 sub-menus with a knack for stranding you in an AM radio setting when you tried to clear a misted windscreen.… Read more…

In 2013, the late Ferdinand Piëch gave the motoring world the Volkswagen XL1 – a carbon-tubbed, scissor-doored oddity powered by a microscopic two-cylinder turbodiesel that sipped less fuel than a humming scooter and came with an eye-watering price tag of €110,000. It was built during an era when Wolfsburg genuinely believed it held the keys to the kingdom and clean… Read more…