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On Wednesday Tesla officially filed an application to expand the Giga Berlin to adjacent land to its current location. Currently Giga Berlin sits on 300 hectares (741 acres) and the company wants to add another 100 hectares (250 acres) of land to...

There is one sure fire way to make your business famous - become a copycat that gets sued by a global giant. Beijing Estech Technology decided to use that strategy rather than actually come up with its own design. And out of all designs in the whole...

BYD's Seal is now up for pre-order in China. The Tesla 3-competitor comes in four configurations, three of which are rear-wheel-drive, and the range-topping one an all-wheel-drive. Here's a quick breakdown of the prices, after government...

We don’t have much to go on - Buick China was careful enough to show just three pictures but that is enough to wet our appetites. The vehicle has been named as Electra-X Concept and it is Buick’s first SUV to be developed using Ultium platform from...

Lucid really can't get a break, it seems. The company is still struggling to actually manufacture any significant number of Air EVs, and on top of that it's now had to issue a recall for already sold models. Up to 1,117 already delivered Airs are...

Tesla is seeding a new software update (2022.16.0.2) to its fleet of cars that brings a few key improvements. The main one is a better navigation energy prediction, which will take into account forecasted crosswind, headwind, humidity, and ambient...

Stellantis, the automaker merger between Fiat Chrysler and PSA (owner of Peugeot and Opel), has announced a joint venture with battery maker Samsung SDI to build a plant in the US. The venture will invest over $2.5b (€2.3b) to build a battery...

Polestar hasn’t stopped making waves since it became an independent company in 2017. Despite being owned by Volvo and Geely and sharing a lot of technology with the parent companies, its designs, technology and business model are refreshingly...

Do not try this at home! Chris Ramsey, who is behind the adventure and will be driving the Nissan Ariya, clearly does not pay attention to those warnings. Only a few years ago, together with his wife, he completed the Mongol Rally in the older...

VW ID.1 has been rumored since 2020, it was meant to be on the market by 2023 but now we know it won’t happen until 2025. VW kept going back and forth to the drawing board, seemingly not happy with the initial designs. Now since we have seen the...

Mercedes-Benz just announced it is about to change its strategy and focus on luxury more than ever before. Smaller segment cars such as the A and B class will have to make room for bigger and more premium vehicles for the brand. But Mercedes is...

Just to address the elephant in the room - all the photos have been double-checked, this is not a 2024 Jaguar XJ. But you just can’t shake off the feeling that you’ve seen this car before. The photos are of the Cadillac Escala concept, which will...

Those lucky few who managed to get hold of Ford F-150 Lightning have noticed one of its cooler features is missing. However hard they try they cannot get the car to work with FordPass, an app designed to unlock and control the electric truck. Ford...

The Mercedes-Benz G-Class's fully-electric counterpart is coming in 2024 and if there is any doubt that it will live up to the high expectations of the ongoing model, we can dispel it right now. The Mercedes EQG will have four electric motors - one...

VW’s Emden plant is not a new factory, but it has now been transformed from manufacturing Passat and Arteon models to manufacture only all-electric cars with first models of ID.4 already leaving the production line. The transformation cost €1...

First of all, what is a car platform? It is the foundation on which a vehicle is based. Its design and specifications determine the rigidity of the car, its suspension design, the interior space and the relevant engineering choices such as motor,...

Solo AVT is a new company, a true startup that was only founded in September last year. But people behind the company come from Waymo, BMW and Tesla, Solo AVT closed the Seed Round with over $7 million funding from Trucks VC, Maniv Mobility and...

Polestar has seen a lot of success so far with the Polestar 2, and it's working on an entire range of new models - we already know that the Polestar 5 performance four-door GT is coming in 2024, for example. But before that happens, there will be a...

Mercedes-Benz has announced its long term plans for the future and there is some great news but there is bad news as well. After taking a closer look at its business, Mercedes decided to focus on the luxury end of its brand and will cut the entry...

Now Nissan and Mitsubishi become the first automakers to introduce electric versions of their Kei car, targeting what is arguably the most important segment of the automotive market in Japan. Kei cars represent about a third of all new cars...