Toyota Motor Corporation treated the EV gold rush with ice-cold skepticism – we all saw it, and we all had a few things to say about it. Its rivals burned billions delivering half-baked electric cars, but Toyota focused on its multi-powertrain approach – leaning into hybrids, perfecting battery supply chains, and telling the world to calm down. In hindsight, I… Read more…

As per tradition, Citroen is taking part in this year’s Paris Motor Show, and it’s starting a new teaser campaign that will eventually lead to the announcement of the company’s new compact and affordable EV based on the legendary 2CV. The original Citroen 2CV Citroen calls it Time 2 Meet Again, and it starts today. It will continue until October… Read more…

Things do change awfully quick in China. It wasn’t that long ago when domestic brands shamelessly copied the shapes of Land Rovers, pinched the quad headlamps of Mercedes sedans, and put Porsche Macan rear ends onto budget crossovers. They did it because everyone then agreed that Western engineering and design were the gold standard. How times have changed… Today, China’s… Read more…

The Tesla Roadster release is being delayed once again, but this time the company blames the weather. It was supposed to launch on October 1 and by launch, we literally mean launch. Hopefully, we will see a flying Roadster on October 15. To be fair, the weather forecast for central Texas on October 1 is indeed bad. Residents should expect… Read more…

China, China, China… Nobody pauses to offer condolences in its cutthroat battery-electric dogfight – you really cannot call it another name. A simple stumble invites the competition to feed on your carcass. Lynk & Co felt that chill right down its spine this summer when its sales went into the red – deliveries down 37.44% year-on-year in August, total volume… Read more…

What’s the ultimate trial by fire for an autonomous vehicle? It’s definitely not the perfectly laid out boulevards of Phoenix, Arizona. Apart from the busy streets of Beijing, the next best place apparently is Cambridge. Anyone who has ever tried driving through this historic English university town knows the horror: medieval carriageways narrower than an open umbrella, delivery vans parked… Read more…

Just as expected since March, Volkswagen has today confirmed that the ID. Tiguan is coming. It will be fully unveiled in early October, and will be available alongside the Tiguan with combustion and hybrid powertrains. The ID. Tiguan is intended to be the successor to both the ID.4 and ID.5. As such, these will probably be retired after its release,… Read more…

China revealed its 5-year plan to dominate the battery production industry with some ambitious goals. Perhaps the most intriguing bit involves solid-state batteries. The Chinese government will try to make them the norm by 2030. It all starts with optimizing production and making solid-state batteries economically viable, but the plan also includes improving the life cycle of these batteries. The… Read more…

The reality of driving in Europe is something that no line of Silicon Valley software code has quite managed – not yet. Squeezing down old and narrow cobblestone alleys, dodging delivery vans, and avoiding cyclists that tend to pop out of nowhere is a high-stakes gamble that we all take part in every day. Out here, the roads do not… Read more…

Mini is one of those brands that transcends the automotive world and is now an inherent part of the pop culture with its unique take on life. It all started with the fun little three-door Mini, but the company recently introduced the significantly larger Countryman, which also gained significant traction. And now we have the Aceman, which should fit nicely… Read more…

Long before the hot hatch became Europe’s idea of fun, French rally enthusiasts worshipped a little shoebox called “la Gorde.” In 1964, Renault put a crossflow head onto a rear-mounted engine, dialed in a tail-heavy, pendulum-like handling balance, slapped two white racing stripes over Bleu de France paint, and gave everyday motorists a masterclass in opposite-lock physics. If you mastered… Read more…

Seeing an eight-ton Class 8 commercial tractor haul itself off the line like an angry hot hatch is something you need to experience – otherwise you won’t believe it is possible. For nearly seven years, we have treated the Tesla Semi like a ghost story – a sleek silhouette seen hauling crisps or sitting in the background of earnings calls.… Read more…

Would you believe that the whole saga of ID. Buzz started 25 years ago? I remember looking at the Volkswagen Microbus back in 2001, watching executives promise that Woodstock’s favorite party bus was about to make a comeback. The Microbus then morphed into the ID. Buzz in 2017 as EV fever started to take hold. It took more than two… Read more…

There is almost a visceral sensation when you see average petrol prices at €2.092 a liter and diesel kissing €2.226 a liter – the highest Europe has seen in decades. For our American readers – that’s €8.19 per gallon of diesel, which is about €2.82 more than East Coast residents pay now. Skeptics swore European drivers were literally welded to… Read more…

This is it. The moment has finally arrived when Bentley, known for wood shavings, hand-stitched hides, and the deep-chested burble of a giant V8, has to face the music. That moment even has its own name – the Torcal. It is the fourth model line in Bentley’s portfolio and its very first production electric vehicle. Bentley fans have spent most… Read more…

Who remembers the original Nissan Pixo? Back in 2009, it arrived as a rebadged Suzuki Alto assembled in Delhi: a cheap, bare-bones box powered by a buzzy 1.0-liter three-cylinder engine. It was transport in its purest, least romantic sense – an appliance designed to get budget-conscious commuters from point A to point B without emptying their wallets. Thirteen years after… Read more…

This week has been a proper whirlwind of battery announcements – and the message has never been clearer: you can forget the half-hour charging sessions. We used to tell ourselves that 30 minutes was a reasonable trade-off for zero emissions. It was the price of admission. But in China, it seems nobody got that memo. We heard from Sunwoda about… Read more…

BYD’s Yangwang brand seems to be very busy working on a new luxury executive sedan, which is allegedly internally codenamed Hu. Yangwang is BYD’s premium luxury brand in China, so this makes perfect sense. The upcoming car has been spotted on the streets of China wearing heavy camouflage. As you can see in the images below, it seems quite massive,… Read more…

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Nissan managed to build an executive-length, rear-wheel-drive electric saloon with active road-reading dampers, decent computing brains, and roof-mounted LiDAR – and then sell it for the price of a second-hand hatchback. I had to triple-check my sources, because the cheapest electric Nissan in Europe right now is the bare-bones… Read more…

The original hot hatchback philosophy never had anything to do with raw horsepower – but everything to do with chucking a light, squared-off box through tight city roundabouts. When the BYD Seagull first arrived in early 2023, it captured that exact pocket-sized cheeky essence. It showed up on the scene as a compact, sub-four-meter city car built with a focus… Read more…