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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 342 miles of range fully loaded...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The BMW iX5 is going to be offered in a hydrogen fuel cell variant too, alongside the battery-electric version, plug-in hybrid, petrol, and diesel models. The iX5 Hydrogen is developed under the HyPowerDrive project funded by the German Federal...

Short overhangs, mud everywhere, heavy ladder frames, and locking differentials scraping over boulders in Moab. That's the image I see when I hear the words "Ford Bronco." It's a car you could compare to a pair of muddy steel-toed work boots. But...

If you had $8,233 in your pocket back in 2009, you could have walked into any Nissan showroom in the UK and gotten a new car. For that amount, the salesperson would hand you the keys to the Indian-built Suzuki Alto with a Nissan badge glued to the...

For the better part of this century, the solid-state battery chemistry was treated as if it were the cold fusion itself- an intoxicating cure-all that promises 1,000-km cross-country dashes without stopping. And yet somehow it was always parked five...

Silicon Valley fed us a dream where steering wheels belong in museums together with hand-crank starters, and pedals are archaic nonsense. We are promised silent mobile living rooms where commuters recline, and let neural networks fight the traffic....

Xiaomi, the smartphone colossus turned automaker, has decided that conquering the Nürburgring was only an appetizer. To feed the beast of mass-market scale, you do not build low-slung electric sports sedans forever - you build family wagons that can...

Here's a fact nobody could have ever predicted: the most commercially vital Jeep on earth is a four-meter runabout assembled in Poland and tailored specifically for navigating tight roundabouts. Jeep - a brand forged on thirsty V8 engines, ladder...

For the last ten years at least, mainstream carmakers have insisted that saving the planet means building two-and-a-half-tonne, leather-lined electric dreadnoughts that cost as much as a small terraced house in Yorkshire. Showrooms are packed to the...

Back in 1999, Audi created a brilliant, lightweight oddity that almost nobody wanted to buy. The original A2 was an engineering tour de force - an aluminum teardrop that sipped fuel, thumbed its nose at automotive excess, and arrived roughly a...

There is an old rule on the racetrack: when the chicane gets dangerously busy and every car around you starts swapping paint, the smartest driver looks for clear asphalt out wide. It is simple and effective. Right now, China's domestic electric...