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First generation Honda NSX broke the status quo, it took on seasoned supercars and it won at their game. It was a timeless piece of engineering that commands 6 figure prices for a decent example nowadays, if you can find one. The second...

Today Volkswagen Group's new battery company, PowerCo, entered a joint venture with Umicore for battery materials production in Europe. The new company will be based in Brussels and will invest 3 billion euros (of which half will come from PowerCo...

China Car Custom announced it is to join the car-making race and shift away from the car modifying it specialized in so far. The company is backed by Xiaomi and Liu De, senior vice-president, is one of the directors of the CCC. The electric...

When Tesla was in the early stages of negotiation with the German government, activists were against the company building its Gigafactory Berlin on the grounds of potential water contamination and other environmental issues that may arise. Well, a...

Li Auto Li L9 was just launched, its smaller sibling the L8 only was subsequently spotted still wearing a full camouflage despite its official launch happening this Friday. And now we have the first leaks about the next model in the lineup - Li...

The Chinese EV buyers can relax a little, the EV tax exemption the country was enjoying and which was meant to expire by the end of this year, has been extended for 2023. The government bodies - Ministry of Finance, State Taxation Administration and...

This is it folks - if you were hoping to bag one of the GMC Hummer EV trucks, you gonna have to wait a while longer. Much longer in fact, with 90,000 preorders and counting, GMC closed the order books because it simply cannot produce the trucks in a...

When you see four of the biggest Chinese companies joining forces to do a business together, you know it’s a serious idea. When two of them are the two biggest oil producers and distributors, and the other two are the biggest battery manufacturer...

At the moment, the two most popular battery chemistries are the LFP and ternary batteries. The LFP ones use lithium, iron and phosphate and have a longer life, are safer to use, charge faster and are cheaper to make. The ternary batteries use...

XPeng confirmed on Weibo that the first S4 supercharger stations are up and running across the first 5 cities in China. The lucky locations are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou ,Shenzhen and Wuhan. There are seven stations in total and each offers four...

Tesla’s AI Day turned into an annual showcase of the company’s technology and progress in various disciplines, not necessarily connected to electric cars. Unlike Tesla’s Battery Day, the focus is more on advances in artificial intelligence and often...

When VW steps out of its comfort zone, out of its cozy box of safe designs, things get wild. Today the company has lifted the veil on a project that has been already running for a while and that isn’t a mere design study. What we are looking at is...

BYD announced it will host the BYD Europe Product Premiere at 11am on September 28. This will be an online event during which the largest EV manufacturer from China, will introduce three of its most popular models. During the event, BYD will...

Nio is bringing its famous Nio Days to Europe, with the first ever event to take place in Berlin on October 7, under the title “A New Horizon”. The event will be live-streamed and will begin at 6 pm local time. The event will mark Nio’s official...

This “thing” is off the scale, it is off the scale of all scales. It is insane, I honestly don’t know what they were thinking, in fact - I don’t wanna know. The Renault 5 Turbo 3E is a result of giving a huge budget to someone who clearly knows and...

Tesla opening its network of Superchargers to non-Tesla users has been amazing for some EV owners but it created unexpected traffic at some destinations. Tesla owners noticed as well that it was rather a one-way solution with non-Tesla electric cars...

Nio is stepping up its game in Europe and is boldly going after BMW and Mercedes with huge plans. Both Quin Lihong and William Li, president and the CEO of Nio, are right now in Germany and are taking a close and personal look at the company's...

It’s double good news day for Faraday Future - first the car is officially getting closer and closer to its production despite numerous delays and obstacles the company had to face. Second bit of news is even better - the EPA rated the FF 91 at 381...

Nio is working on an upgraded version of its ES8 SUV, and this will feature LiDAR. In late August it was spotted on the streets in China wrapped in camo, and today more spy shots of it have been outed. The new ES8 will have a different...

The wait is over - XPeng G9 is finally official and all of its details are out, including the price. The car will start at RMB 309,900 ($43,968) and will go all the way up to 469,900 ($66,669) for its most expensive version. The price is right in...