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Reuters revealed that the US Department of Justice launched a criminal probe last year into Tesla’s self-driving claims. The investigation was prompted after more than a dozen accidents involving Tesla vehicles with its Autopilot activated, and some...

Mullen plans to take on Europe with a China-sourced little EV that it will use as a delivery car. The Mullen I-GO is originally a four-door, four-seater EV made in China under the Henan Henrey Shiying Vehicle brand. Mullen will rebrand the car as a...

EV launches are getting more and more complex, with teasers, unveilings of sketches, pre-announcements, announcements with no specs, announcements with some specs but no availability info, and so on. Chinese car brand ORA is the latest in a long...

Meizu was founded in 2003 and was one of the first phone makers in China and it used to ship 10 million phones every year. Its recent performance dropped significantly down to just 1 million handsets a year and the company was taken over by another...

Toyota only just announced its electric 4-door sedan for the Chinese market yesterday but there was something else during the unveiling. The company teased an image of another electric vehicle that is currently under development. The darkened image...

The race has just begun, albeit just in China for now - Tesla was first to introduce price cuts across its Model 3 and Model Y range and now AITO is following it. Chinese customers get new, lower prices for the M5 and M7 electric cars. AITO is...

Lunchtime is approaching quickly and courtesy of Ken Block we now know how to spend it. The undisputed master of inner-city shenanigans, the king of tire smoke and overall one of the most skilled drivers ever, brought his entourage to Las Vegas this...

The first ever electric SUV from Lotus will come in three flavors - Eletre, Eletre S and Eletre R. The entry level Eletre will start at €95,990 in Europe and GBP89,500 in the UK which makes it really rather attractive. The range topping Eletre R...

As with all of its other models, Tesla's Semi has definitely been a very long time in the making. But now, it's closer to release than ever. The US EPA has just assessed the Semi and issued it a Certificate of Conformity for the stream of...

The Volvo EX90's infotainment system is all about providing "the right information at the right time", the latest teaser by the company reveals. The EX90 is a fully electric successor to the XC90 and the new software is one of the key selling points...

Battery shortage and technological limitations are backing car makers into a corner as they need to find a reliable source of batteries to be able to keep manufacturing going. To that end Nio established a new battery tech company in...

If you feel like it’s a deja-vu then you wouldn’t be wrong. Skoda just unveiled the Enyaq RS iV - again. It’s tricky this one because the car was technically unveiled last year, together with the Enyaq Coupe RS iV, but it never made it to the...

Toyota bZ3 is an electric sedan and it is the second electric car in the “bZ” family after the bZ4X SUV. The car is based on the e-TNGA platform and it was jointly developed with Toyota, FAW Toyota and BYD with the latter providing the battery pack...

Tesla has started sending out a new software update to its cars, labeled 2022.40.1. It's currently rolling out, and it comes with a bunch of various enhancements here and there. Perhaps the most important is a promised improvement of charging...

If you wanted to buy the 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali and took your time with the decision - you’re out of luck. The entire production for 2024 is already reserved. You’ll have to wait until 2024 for GMC to open reservations for 2025. The world has...

In an interview for Autocar, Renault's boss Fabrice Cambolive confirmed that there won't be a successor to the popular Zoe. The car was originally released back in 2012 and has been the best-selling EV for 2015 and 2016 in Europe, while being one of...

Avatr 11, the good-looking luxury SUV coupe developed by CATL and Changan Automobile, just got a delivery date. It's created by China’s oldest automotive company and one of “big four” state-owned automakers. Nio was part of the joint venture in its...

Battle of specification has begun - and ended rapidly. GMC just unveiled its Sierra pickup truck with 754hp. It was a surprise move since the car shares its Ultium platform with the Chevrolet Silverado EV and that truck was announced with 664hp in...

The rumors were swirling for a couple of weeks that Tesla was considering lowering its prices in China and now they've been proven true. The Model Y dropped below RMB 300,000 and thus qualifying for EV subsidies. Tesla Model 3 in the entry RWD...

There is no question that electric car battery fires are dangerous. They are nowhere near as common as gasoline-powered car fires but nonetheless they do happen. In fact an electric car has 10 times less chance of self-combusting compared to an ICE...