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The badge on the car is important, sure - but it matters far less than the supply chain behind the brand. You realize it the moment you pull into a charging station with a cold battery pack and watch the charging crawl at a fraction of its...

VinFast premiered the all-new VF 8 in the Philippines. It's an electric SUV, measuring 4,701 × 1,872 × 1,670 mm, with a 2,840 mm wheelbase. Inside, it has five seats, a 12.9-inch central touchscreen, and a separate driver display. On the outside,...

Any EV owner quickly learns to ignore the range estimates from dealership brochures. When the rain turns to sleet, and you have the cabin heater, heated steering wheel, and rear demister running full blast, a modern battery pack shows you its true...

Liquid-cooled DC charging cables weigh as much as a garden hose filled with wet sand, and trying to twist one into a charge port is nobody's idea of modern luxury. We talk a lot here about battery chemistry and peak charging curves, but the physical...

Today, Garmin and Waze have announced that they are teaming up to boost driver awareness of cyclists. Rolling out now globally on Android and iOS, Waze is getting real-time cyclist alerts. Drivers will see a real-time moving cyclist icon in Waze,...

Most EV owners have experienced the dashboard predicting plenty of range, only for a steady motorway climb to chew through the battery twice as fast as promised. We've got used to doing mental math on the fly, subtracting twenty percent from...

For the past six or seven years, electric car makers have treated the cabin like an empty electronics store, stripping out reliable dials and switches in the name of minimalism - and leaving the person behind the wheel to poke blindly at a slab of...

It's no secret that carmakers are brilliant at bending metal and tuning chassis, but painfully bad at writing computer code. The companies that build our phones and the companies that build our cars have treated each other with cautious suspicion...

Whenever I test an electric car, the conversation with my neighbors eventually lands in the exact same place. Regardless of what badge sits on the nose of my test vehicle, people want to know how it compares to a Tesla Model 3 or a Model Y. Those...

Here's an interesting bit about electric cars - range anxiety hardly ever comes from the daily routines. Nobody worries about the school run or the supermarket trip when there's a charger either at home or at the shopping mall. The real stress...

When it comes to proper luxury cars, that badge on a hood usually does half the work before you even open the door. When you are buying a Rolls-Royce or a Mercedes-Maybach, you are paying for a century of social agreement that says this object is...

I think I said that somewhere before, but I'll say it again - the honeymoon phase of the electric vehicle transition is officially over. Five years ago, buyers were willing to forgive cheap cabin plastics, clunky infotainment screens, and a stiff...

BYD's ultra-premium Yangwang brand has been chasing ever-higher top speeds with its U9 Xtreme, which already hit 308.34 mph at Germany's ATP Papenburg proving ground in September 2025. Today, the FIA says the limited-run EV reached 312.65 mph on...

Although Tesla's CEO Elon Musk refers to the Cybertruck as "the best vehicle Tesla has ever made," the sales numbers tell a whole different story. From the projected 250,000 annual sales, Tesla was able to ship only 20,237 units this year, which is...

BYD only launched the Seal 07 EV back in March, but the company is already replacing it. Today, the second-generation Seal 07 went official in China, and the all-electric version is cheaper, quicker, and has a longer range than the car it...

Stellantis just released the final episode of its "Master the impossible" series, where the new Jeep Compass 4xe shows off its off-road capabilities on various terrains. The last episode takes us into the deep, snowy and icy roads of Arjeplog,...

The Netherlands' Vehicle Authority RDW just gave Tesla's FSD a green light after asking the company to make some "minor changes" to the software. In addition, the Full Self-Driving software is no longer called FSD. The new official name is Tesla...

BYD's premium brand Denza launched the N9 large SUV back in March 2025, but so far it's only been available as a plug-in hybrid, despite early reports also mentioning an all-electric version. Today, that EV has finally shown up in a regulatory...

Earlier this year, Zeekr announced that it plans to update its 7X SUV, but the model is yet to be released. It appears that it will soon hit the streets in its home country, given the recent spy shots that came out, showing the Zeekr 7X being...

BYD has just published its sales figures for October, and they include quite the milestone. The company sold 305,743 battery electric passenger vehicles last month, up 37% compared to October 2025, marking the first time its monthly EV sales have...