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…

According to a report from The Information, Tesla is getting ready to launch its autonomous Cybercab service in Austin, Texas, by the end of this month. However, this is an internal target, and there are indications Tesla might miss it. The interesting bit about Tesla’s Cybercab service is that the vehicles don’t have any pedals or a steering wheel, which… Read more…

Enzo Ferrari once famously quipped that he sold engines and threw the rest of the car in for free. For well over seven decades, that intoxicating, high-rpm combustion crescendo was the untouchable soul of Maranello. But when the Italian marque revealed the Luce – a quad-motor, five-seat electric super-tourer penned in partnership with LoveFrom – the traditionalists suffered a collective… Read more…

The automotive world has a way of delivering plot twists that no scriptwriter would have imagined a decade ago. Porsche – the sacred temple of screaming flat-sixes, and motorsport pedigree – has formally decided to decouple from its parent conglomerate’s emissions pool and jump into bed with Chinese EV maker XPeng. It sounds like an alternate-universe fever dream, but when… Read more…

In the last decade or so, screens have become an inseparable part of modern-day vehicles, but at some point, the pendulum has swung a bit too far. Nowadays, drivers are complaining about complicated UI and touch controls to perform simple tasks like adjusting the AC or even changing the radio station. And according to a study conducted by Vi Bilägare,… Read more…

Xiaomi launched the SU7, its first EV (which was also its first car), on March 28, 2024, and deliveries started on April 3. It’s been 28.5 months since then, and the company is today celebrating selling more than 500,000 of them. This would be a huge milestone for any carmaker, but it’s even more impressive for Xiaomi, which made such… Read more…

Hyundai unveiled the Ioniq 3 in April in its N Line trim, and then revealed the Standard version last month. Today, the company has announced that production is starting at its plant in Izmit, Türkiye. This is the first EV passenger car built by a foreign OEM in the country, and to ready it for production, the factory has received… Read more…

Genesis – the one brand that has always been the polite guest at the luxury automotive dinner party. Back in the day, the Germans traded blows with ever-stiffer suspensions and carbon-fiber trinkets, but the Korean brand carved out a serene niche of quilted leather, silent cabins, and rotating crystal spheres on the center console. It was civilized. It was dignified.… Read more…

Only three years ago, if you wanted four figures of driving range, you had to drag an internal combustion engine along for the ride. When BYD launched the original Denza N8 back in 2023, the electric variant came with a respectable 108.8 kWh battery pack. Buyers who suffered from chronic distance anxiety had to go for the plug-in hybrid model… Read more…

This is what Tesla had to deal with for nearly three years: dockworkers across Scandinavia refusing to touch roll-on/roll-off ferries, postal couriers locking up license plates in vaults, electricians cutting off maintenance to roadside Superchargers, and cleaners walking away from showrooms. For 1,021 grueling days, Sweden’s mighty IF Metall union staged what was supposed to be the ultimate stress test… Read more…

Today, Rivian has introduced the 2027 model year R1S and R1T. The headline feature for the R1S is that you can now order it with captain’s chairs in the second row. There are thus six seats in the car, and to reach the third row you have a center pass-through in between the two captain’s chairs. Each captain’s chair has… Read more…

Uber and Pony AI formed a partnership back in May 2025, and now their collaboration is moving forward with plans to deploy robotaxis in five European cities. The plan is to release more than 2,000 vehicles. The first city on the list is Zagreb, Croatia, while the other four cities will be announced in phases once they get a permit… Read more…

On paper, the global EV train is barrelling down the tracks at a respectable clip. Around 1.85 million plug-in cars rolled off dealer lots worldwide last July alone – that’s a solid 9% increase over the same month last year, pushing our 2026 year-to-date total to a massive 11.5 million vehicles. But if you stand on a street corner in… Read more…

I love the Monterey Car Week – it has always been a theatre of excess. A sun-drenched coastal sanctuary where collectors talk about bespoke leather stitching over chilled glasses of champagne. But watching Lucid roll out a three-row family hauler packing 1,070 horsepower right into the middle of Pebble Beach’s Concours Village felt like a cheeky jab to the jaw… Read more…

Every time a manufacturer promises a bargain EV, we usually end up with hollow plastic doors, anemic powertrains, and infotainment screens smaller than a retro handheld gaming console (Dacia Spring anyone?). But in China, the story seems to be completely different. BYD revealed the 2027 Seal 06, and it comes in twelve different configurations from plug-in hybrids to pure electric,… Read more…

Not that long ago, you could honestly class the affordable EVs as penal colony transport – appliances designed by bean-counters who thought fun was an unnecessary option. Then Kia changed the rules. After storming the stage with the slick EV6 and the family-hauling EV9, the South Korean brand turned its sights to democratizing electric power – the 2027 Kia EV3… Read more…

I used to have a soft spot for Jaguar. The XF especially was a proper West End theater – you pressed the start button, and after a brief pause, the gear selector rose out of the center console and the hidden climate vents rotated open as if they were stage props. As long as it all worked, it was pure… Read more…

Xiaomi’s latest accounting problem feels like the company is trying to sprint up the escalator that is going down – let me explain. After storming out of the gate with the SU7 and YU7, the Chinese electronics titan now finds itself staring at a scorecard that does not look good. Delivering 31,267 vehicles in July sounds impressive, but that’s only… Read more…

The unspoken rule among German automakers used to be simple: under-promise on paper, over-deliver in real life. In the gasoline era, it meant a twin-turbo V8 rated at 500 HP would be closer to 550 – perfect. We came to expect that from pretty much every new car. Unfortunately, in the wild west of EVs, official EPA and WLTP ratings… Read more…

Chinese EV makers hadn’t made incremental progress in the last few years – they had teleported into a completely different era. One of the first to realize that is Volkswagen. The German auto giant is realizing that engineering fine machinery in Wolfsburg and shipping it to buyers in the East is officially coming to an end. German newspaper Handelsblatt reported… Read more…