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CATL and BYD both have unveiled their own sodium-batteries but it is BYD that will first bring its product to the market. The company already has plans in place to start the mass production on this new and promising battery in the second quarter of...

XPeng has made some adjustments to its vast portfolio of versions available of its three electric cars - the P7, P5 and G3. The changes involved reducing the number of variants but the prices and configurations were kept untouched. XPeng...

Subscription business models are tempting and everyone wants to be the next Netflix or Amazon Prime - unfortunately that includes the automakers. While some subscriptions make sense, charging a monthly fee for heated seats got BMW a lot of flack....

Tesla's reluctance to adopt CarPlay or Android Auto means it needs to integrate the most popular music streaming services one by one. And it appears Apple Music is coming soon to join Spotify and Tidal in Tesla's infotainment system. According...

Revival of the Lotus brand is only just accelerating, the Eletre SUV has begun production and first customers are impatiently waiting for their cars. Lotus Evija became the most powerful production car in the world with its 2,011hp powertrain and...

Vertical integration is the buzzword of today's automotive industry. The days of outsourcing are clearly over with every major automaker rushing to take control over their supply chains. Last month Nio set up a battery subsidiary and now Xpeng...

Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, was very specific this week when he announced that the latest electric cars from Ford take 40 percent less labor than it takes to produce their gasoline-powered equivalents. He credited the work savings on a much...

Smart #1 has been unveiled earlier this year and so far it received a very warm welcome, its Launch Edition has been sold out on the spot with deliveries not starting until early next year. In final stages of launch preparations for the EU market,...

According to the latest study from BloombergNEF, the US is the world’s greatest polluter when it comes to transport emissions - 1.64 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide is expected to be produced by vehicles in North America this year alone. Until now,...

Izera was founded in 2020 and is fully backed by the Polish government through the ElectroMobility Poland, a national electric car brand. The company revealed two vehicles so far, the Z100 SUV and T100 hatchback. Although the latter borrows its name...

The US Government has just committed the country to a very ambitious plan - to stop selling gas and diesel powered commercial vehicles by 2040. That means in just over 17 years there will be no new school bus, truck, delivery van or a tractor...

The all-electric Formula E is getting ready for its upcoming Season 9, and as such has announced some updates to its sporting regulations today. That, and a huge development in charging. A new "Attack Charge", to be introduced "at select races...

Ken Block’s first ever Elecrikhana clocked up some serious views - nearly 4.5 millions and still counting. By all means it was the probably most significant show produced by Ken Block and his team, not only it was set in the one and only Las Vegas,...

Keeping up with the progress of some of the EV companies can be tricky. While we may be used to slow developments from the US and European automakers, the Chinese market seems to be moving at a much faster pace. And then, there is VinFast from...

Since the start of this year, Tesla has been slowly expanding its program to give Supercharger access to non-Tesla EVs. This week, Tesla is opening up its chargers in Italy. From now on, 18 Supercharger stations in the country can be used by...

In less than two weeks Tesla will deliver the first Semi to Pepsi at an official event at the Giga Nevada. As the preparations for first deliveries advance, the company updated its Tesla app with detailed images of Semi although for now those images...

Buick is launching its all-electric midsize SUV Electra in China and the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the photos and specifications of the upcoming vehicle. The MIIT does it so the public can actually comment on...

Google Maps has been working with EV charging station partners in the US and the UK for the past three years. The company is now expanding the service to the majority of countries is covers and comes with helpful filters for the charging speeds, and...

Fisker's Ocean SUV has now reached an important milestone: the official start of production. This will take place at Magna Steyr's carbon-neutral factory in Graz, Austria, and it's on schedule, coming after just two years of...

This has to be a world’s first - Mercedes is cutting prices of its cars due to low sales numbers. The Chinese customers are having the best Black Friday ever with some models of EQE and EQS getting substantial price reductions. Mercedes went...