According to a Dataforce analysis of newly registered vehicles in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and the UK, 25% of all cars sold in July were EVs. In the first seven months of 2026, EV sales were up 37% compared to the same period last year. The most obvious reason why Europeans are flocking to battery-powered vehicles is gas prices.… Read more…

There is a very specific type of arrogance that infects tech executives the moment they master the art of spinning a brushless electric motor. The internal logic seems very simple: if you can make a cordless vacuum cleaner that eats dust bunnies with ruthless efficiency, how hard could it possibly be to build a road-going hypercar? As it turns out,… Read more…

Legacy BMW prestige in China used to mean a throaty straight-six for way too many years. A kidney grille was somehow linked with the assumption that buyers in Shanghai and Beijing would happily pay a hefty badge tax. But the rules of engagement in the world’s biggest EV proving ground have been rewritten, and Munich knows it. With its market… Read more…

XPeng published its financial results for the second quarter of this year with some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the company posted an 8% revenue increase year-over-year, but the net operating loss almost tripled compared to the same period last year. The revenue for Q2 2026 is RMB 19.74 billion ($2.94 billion), which is… Read more…

A recent report claimed Tesla would launch the Cybercab in Austin by the end of this month. It was allegedly an “internal target”, and the company will miss it, but only by a few short days. Tesla has now announced the Cybercab “exclusive access” event for September 3. It’s going to be held in Austin, Texas, where the Cybercab will… Read more…

We used to measure vehicle supremacy in turbo boost and how violently its quad-exhaust barked on downshifts. Today? That battlefield moved from combustion chambers to cleanrooms, with the real dominance decided in nanometers and memory on tap. Xiaomi – a Chinese tech giant that made billions selling smartphones before engineering an electric saloon – has decided that buying driving processors… Read more…

The Mercedes-Benz GLB has been on the market for less than a decade, yet it is already entering its third generation. The original model proved popular thanks to its unique combination of compact dimensions and seven-seat practicality, although it was not without quality concerns. Its electric counterpart, the EQB, also faced criticism for its styling and cabin execution. With the… Read more…

Tesla finally commenced the mass production of its Semi truck in Nevada this year, following its initial introduction all the way back in 2017. And now that the factory has started churning them out, the company seems to have big plans for the Semi. Notably, it’s going to launch it in Europe. The official details will be announced at IAA… Read more…

Tesla is getting ready to launch its Cybercab driverless taxi service in Austin, Texas, by the end of this month, according to a report from earlier this week. But at the time, the number of unsupervised autonomous Tesla vehicles doing rounds in Texas was pretty low and even shrinking from spring until now. However, crowd-sourced data on Robotaxitracker.com shows that… Read more…

Today at the Chengdu Auto Show, BYD showcased the third-generation Tang SUV, which is an important model because it’s meant to revitalize the sales of the Tang series, together with the bigger Da Tang (Great Tang). The new Tang is a five-seat mid-to-large SUV that will go on sale at some point during the fourth quarter of this year, so… Read more…

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…