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The FF91 may never see the light of day if the Faraday Future won’t secure funding in the next few days. The company announced it is putting the deliveries of its first electric car on hold as it cannot guarantee when they can be completed. In a...

The recent price cuts of Tesla cars in China apparently are not working as well as the company hoped for and the number of customers visiting its stores is still hovering about 50 percent below what the company experienced in the past. In the...

Nio initially launched in Europe only with a lease model, and that led to some backlash, so eventually the company promised to also offer a purchase option in the continent. This is now live in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden, which...

How quickly the world changes when it comes to electric cars is simply mind-boggling. Rimac Nevera was on top with a couple of world records to its name for what feels like a blink of an eye. Its technological sibling just snatched those away and...

Back in 2020, Mazda revealed plans to resurrect its famous rotary engine in the form of a range extender for its MX-30 EV crossover. Now the company is ready to introduce it and we'll see its debut during the Brussels Motor Show on January 13 next...

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...