Articles tagged "Misc"

I learned something last week that I actually had no idea about - Paris has been hosting car shows since 1898, when a handful of first horseless carriages gathered in the Tuileries gardens and tried to convince very skeptical Parisians that the...

Have you bought a new car in Europe over the last five years? You have probably gone through a showroom experience that felt much like a lecture. Salespeople trying to steer us away from petrol engines and toward battery power, warning that the old...

The Paris Motor Show used to have a knack for launching cars that end up defining a decade. The original Smart City Coupé rolled onto the stand here back in 1998, the Audi A2 arrived a year later as an aluminum-bodied masterpiece of efficiency -...

Britain has arrived at a multi-billion-pound fork in the road: which way will this island nation genuinely be better off? Do we keep enjoying the growing choice of ultra-affordable Chinese electric cars, or do we fall in step with Brussels and put...

The British automotive market is a different animal entirely. Every year, on September 1st, bleary-eyed buyers hover around shiny new registration plates. But as the September 2026 registration dust settled across the UK, the automotive landscape...

There is almost a visceral sensation when you see average petrol prices at $2.45 a liter and diesel kissing $2.61 a liter - the highest Europe has seen in decades. For our American readers - that's $9.59 per gallon of diesel, which is about $3.30...

History very rarely repeats itself with the exact same script, but sometimes it does rent the same house. Back in the eighties, European and American markets were sweating over Japanese manufacturing, leading to export limits that dictated how many...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I was sitting in a conference room in Germany at the global launch of the new XPeng L03 last week. The mood among the executives was electric, full of optimism you only get when a brand feels it is on the cusp of conquering the world. We talked...

It seems that the slow-burning EV revolution that we are witnessing, is going through a curious corporate shell game. On paper, things look spectacular. In the German market, which basically is Europe’s automotive barometer, battery-electric vehicle...

Over the last decade, drivers across China have embraced electric cars at a rate that has surprised global analysts. This rapid adoption has turned clean-energy vehicles into mainstream options rather than a niche segment. This massive success means...

The auto market in the United Kingdom went through quite a shift in June 2026. Latest data shows that EVs captured almost 30% of the new car market during the month, with buyers snapping up 64,440 electric cars. That's a huge 38% bump compared to...

Annual EV sales in the United Kingdom have officially outpaced traditional petrol cars over a full 12-month period for the first time. The latest data revealed a major change in consumer preferences across the British Isles. According to a new...

The global race to build better batteries for electric cars took a surprising but highly practical turn. Many automotive companies promise that pure solid-state batteries are just around the corner, but the actual market reality is a little bit more...

There's a major shift on the automotive horizon as China introduces tough new safety regulations for electric cars. Starting July 1, 2026, two mandatory national standards will officially take effect across the country. The new rules target both the...

The American auto industry worried about the future of electric cars when the federal government completely eliminated retail tax incentives. The analysts believed that removing state financial assistance would instantly halt the transition toward...

Despite many efforts from the fossil fuel industry, the global automotive market continues to shift toward electric cars, and China is the unquestionable engine driving this change. The latest sales data from May 2026 revealed that Chinese EV makers...