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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Detroit has been making cars long enough to learn that nothing tests a carmaker's resolve quite like a sudden shift in consumer trends. A couple of years ago, you couldn't pass an automotive press conference without hearing corporate executives...

In case you were wondering about Tesla's much-hyped, constantly delayed Roadster, the company's Chief Designer, Franz von Holzhausen, has two words for you: "very soon". Well, technically, the full quote is "Yes, very soon". That's it. Seriously....

Mercedes revealed its 4-door AMG GT coupe back in May, which is the carmaker's most powerful vehicle yet, outputting 1,169 hp in the GT 63 version. During the announcement, Mercedes hinted at an AMG SUV counterpart that will employ the same...

Japan's kei car segment has long been an impenetrable automotive fortress. Suzuki, Daihatsu, Honda, and Nissan have guarded this hyper-regulated, quirky micro-universe like a Holy Grail. Foreign auto execs looked at Japan's strict dimension rules,...

Standing under the blazing Austin sun outside Gigafactory Texas, a gold-painted Tesla Cybercab caught my eye in a set of newly released photos, its butterfly door propped skyward beside the Lone Star flag. At first glance, it looks like a sleek,...

Ever since electric cars stepped out of the golf-cart realm, we've been promised that the miracle battery was just around the corner. You know the pitch - the power pack that weighs next to nothing, charges before you can finish a sandwich, and...

When a company's CEO personally hands over the keys to the 20,000th unit of an executive flagship SUV only 73 days after launching it, you know something unusual is happening. That is what William Li did in Fujian, delivering a fresh ES9 to tea...

The pace of the Chinese electric vehicle arms race is relentless. The moment a brand has settled into its rhythm, it pulls out the drafting paper and drops a fresh design directly onto the showroom floor. Case in point: Avatr. The joint effort...

How times change in Wolfsburg and Shanghai. A decade ago, the idea that Volkswagen - pretty much the king of global automotive engineering - would turn to a young Chinese tech startup to co-develop its core electric vehicle architectures was...

The Smart #2 was recently spotted undergoing testing ahead of its launch at the Paris Motor Show in October. In case you're not aware, this is an EV that's very much inspired by the original Smart ForTwo city car. It has a very similar shape and...

There is something wonderfully absurd about a 6,634 lb wedge of cold-rolled stainless steel tearing up the black stuff with up to 845 ponies going wild. Yes, it does look like it was drawn on a napkin during a late-night sci-fi marathon and...