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Today, Ford has decided to finally unveil the name of its next electric truck. It will be called Fathom. Ford says it comes from "a deep understanding of the person who would drive it". "Deep", because a fathom is a unit of measurement equal to six...

There is something eerie about watching a vehicle pull up to the curb, pop its indicator, and smoothly join the traffic without human hands on the wheel. No matter how many times you try it, there's a moment of awe. Sure, the ride is nothing like a...

BMW today announced that it's starting to produce the i3 series at its plant in Munich, Germany. The company began taking orders for the new i3 in June. BMW says that high demand has led to "a steep ramp-up curve at the plant". The plant has made...

The Mercedes AMG GT 4-Door Coupe broke cover in May and was introduced in only two configurations - the top-tier GT 63 and the mid-tier GT 55. The former boasts 1,153 hp with a 432 miles range, while the latter boasts 805 hp and a 435 miles range....

It has only been five years since Xiaomi decided to go into the auto business, and when a smartphone titan said it wanted to build cars, legacy carmakers offered a patronizing smile. But when Xiaomi rolled out the SU7 sedan and followed it up with...

All EV startups seem to be focused on a wild, breakneck timeline. Every fresh Silicon Valley outfit promises to reinvent personal transport, build a gigafactory from scratch, and deliver a world-beating crossover to your driveway by next Tuesday....

BYD's sub-brand Denza opened up the Z9S pre-orders in China starting at CNY 319,800 (~$47,000) and promises record-breaking cruise range on a single charge - 684 miles. But that's the top-tier model with a huge 102.3 kWh battery, and the range...

Remember the big declarations made when Tesla broke ground on the muddy outskirts of Lingang back in 2019? Elon Musk stood before local dignitaries and promised that Gigafactory Shanghai would exist purely to build electric cars for Chinese drivers....

Honestly, it hasn't been that long since petrolheads laughed off electric cars as glorified milk floats. Fast forward only a few years, and the latest European sales figures tell a radically different story. In June alone, 366,000 battery-electric...

After an unsuccessful run, the original Audi A2 went quickly off the showrooms, but now the company is going for a fully electric reboot. The Audi A2 e-tron is expected to launch sometime this fall, so the German automaker decided to tease the crowd...

How times have changed - modern motoring anxiety arrives quietly on a display in the form of a bright red steering wheel icon, a disengagement chime, and a notification declaring self-driving unavailable. You are cruising down the motorway, letting...

VW used to rule the Chinese auto market with an iron fist, built on a foundation of petrol sedans that every family wanted to own. When the FAW-Volkswagen joint venture spun off the Jetta nameplate into an independent brand in 2019, the strategy...

The last couple of decades have been really something to watch. It all started with the traditional auto establishment scoffing at the idea that upstart tech firms could master the black art of the automobile - we only need to mention Xiaomi to see...

Not that long ago, we used to argue if a naturally aspirated V8 pushing 400 horses could hold its own against a twin-turbo V6. Fast forward to today, and the entire conversation has flipped on its head. Now, we are arguing about megawatts. The...

Have you ever visited a modern automotive assembly plant? They all have this specific rhythm - a deep, mechanical thud of stamping presses accompanied by the synchronized dance of robotic arms sparking welds into the air. It is the industrial...

According to a corporate listing in China, Zhejiang Xinglixing New Energy Technology Co., Ltd has registered a new capital inflow and shareholder restructuring. The investment comes from a Xiaomi-backed company named Hanxing Venture Capital,...

There is a serious issue at the heart of building electric vehicles right now: stamping heavy sheet metal and bolting multi-link suspensions onto a chassis makes you bleed cash, but writing elegant lines of code makes you wealthy. The monstrous...

There was a time when Mercedes-Benz seemed convinced that the future of motoring depended on cars looking like bars of soap. We all watched, scratching our heads, as the three-pointed star was slapped onto aerodynamically pure, but aesthetically...

If someone told me five years ago that the tech empire responsible for making my smartphone would be rewriting the rules of large family haulers, I would have laughed them right out of the room. Yet, here we are in mid-2026, and Xiaomi is no longer...

Xiaomi is taking the automotive industry by storm by following its two main strategies - "Innovation for everyone" and "Human x Car x Home". The new brand managed to take significant market share from established players by targeting vital customer...