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Remember the $59,990 Cybertruck? Tesla would rather you don't. This price was the starting point for the Cybertruck for a few days in February before it went up to $69,990. And today Tesla has hiked it again to $74,990. The Premium...

Since its debut as a car maker a few years ago with the SU7, Xiaomi has only been selling its vehicles in China. That, however, will change in 2027, when the company has repeatedly promised to launch in Europe. The most recent promise came from...

The quick petrol station stop has always been the elusive holy grail for EV owners. We all know the ritual: pull up to the pump, squeeze the trigger for two minutes, grab some snacks, and head back onto the open road. But electric vehicles, for all...

Small French hatchbacks have always had a knack for punching well above their weight, thumbing their noses at bigger cars while delivering driving joy on a shoestring budget. When Renault resurrected the 5 as a retro-futuristic electric runabout, it...

Today, Waymo has announced that it is now "laying the groundwork" for its fully autonomous driverless ride-hailing service in Munich, Germany, "one of the world's premier hubs for automotive engineering and urban mobility". "In the coming weeks",...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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....

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 seats, although it was not...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...