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…

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…