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…

Back in August Tesla announced that the Semi was finally headed to Europe, and today the company has published the first details about the European version of the electric truck. The European Tesla Semi gets up to 550 km of range fully loaded at 40 tons, which is also its gross combination weight. The range number is estimated at a… Read more…

Audi unveiled the new A2 e-tron just a few days ago, and today the company has already started production of the new model at its plant in Ingolstadt, Germany. The first units rolled off the assembly line in the presence of Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder. Audi says the development of the new A2 e-tron was shortened by a whopping 21… Read more…

The EV sales data for August 2026 is impressive – 1.83 million plug-in vehicles finding homes worldwide, a 2% tick upward year-on-year. Sure, almost nothing to talk about. Look at the total of 13.4 million units registered year-to-date, up a modest 4%, and it seems the EV transition has settled into a predictable highway cruise. But walk through the dealership… Read more…

Tesla launched the new Model Y Performance in August of last year, and ever since July this year we’ve known that it was preparing to launch it in China. This has finally happened today. The Model Y Performance starts at CNY 369,000 (approximately €46,900). Thus, it is, unsurprisingly, the most expensive Model Y variant in China, outdoing the six-seat Model… Read more…

Car launches are quite important, and manufacturers spend small fortunes trying to outdo each other – in pomp, in originality, and in costs. But Stellantis took it to a new, somewhat confusing level. They decided on Marbella, a Spanish town that has a funny way of distorting reality. On any given Tuesday along the sun-drenched marina of Puerto Banús, you… Read more…

The BMW iX5 is going to be offered in a hydrogen fuel cell variant too, alongside the battery-electric version, plug-in hybrid, petrol, and diesel models. The iX5 Hydrogen is developed under the HyPowerDrive project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport (which is footing €191 million of the bill), and co-financed by the state of Bavaria (which is contributing… Read more…

Short overhangs, mud everywhere, heavy ladder frames, and locking differentials scraping over boulders in Moab. That’s the image I see when I hear the words “Ford Bronco.” It’s a car you could compare to a pair of muddy steel-toed work boots. But the auto universe has a funny way of upending tradition when nobody is looking. Ford is officially bringing… Read more…

If you had €7,030 in your pocket back in 2009, you could have walked into any Nissan showroom in the UK and gotten a new car. For that amount, the salesperson would hand you the keys to the Indian-built Suzuki Alto with a Nissan badge glued to the bumper. It had wind-up windows, plastic bottle-cap-looking wheel trims, and zero street… Read more…

For the better part of this century, the solid-state battery chemistry was treated as if it were the cold fusion itself- an intoxicating cure-all that promises 1,000-km cross-country dashes without stopping. And yet somehow it was always parked five years away. Whenever an executive mentioned solid electrolytes – my instinct was to check my watch and ask how many billions… Read more…

Silicon Valley fed us a dream where steering wheels belong in museums together with hand-crank starters, and pedals are archaic nonsense. We are promised silent mobile living rooms where commuters recline, and let neural networks fight the traffic. And yet, no matter how much marketing you spread over the subject, cars are still the same stubborn chunks of metal subject… Read more…

Xiaomi, the smartphone colossus turned automaker, has decided that conquering the Nürburgring was only an appetizer. To feed the beast of mass-market scale, you do not build low-slung electric sports sedans forever – you build family wagons that can swallow three generations of relatives, their luggage, and enough camping gear to survive a minor apocalypse. Lei Jun’s automotive upstart achieved… Read more…

Here’s a fact nobody could have ever predicted: the most commercially vital Jeep on earth is a four-meter runabout assembled in Poland and tailored specifically for navigating tight roundabouts. Jeep – a brand forged on thirsty V8 engines, ladder frames, and machines wide enough to take both lanes on a European road – has discovered that its true calling comes… Read more…

For the last ten years at least, mainstream carmakers have insisted that saving the planet means building two-and-a-half-tonne, leather-lined electric dreadnoughts that cost as much as a small terraced house in Yorkshire. Showrooms are packed to the rafters with SUVs each having three displays across the dashboard, artificial motor hums, and tri-motor powertrains capable of going from zero to sixty… Read more…

Back in 1999, Audi created a brilliant, lightweight oddity that almost nobody wanted to buy. The original A2 was an engineering tour de force – an aluminum teardrop that sipped fuel, thumbed its nose at automotive excess, and arrived roughly a quarter of a century before the public was ready to appreciate it. Dealers could barely give them away, and… Read more…

There is an old rule on the racetrack: when the chicane gets dangerously busy and every car around you starts swapping paint, the smartest driver looks for clear asphalt out wide. It is simple and effective. Right now, China’s domestic electric vehicle market is literally that kind of demolition derby. It is a merciless, margin-crushing slugfest where legacy giants and… Read more…