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Rolls-Royce Updates Its Electric Spectre Series II, Now the Most Powerful Rolls Ever
The new Rolls Royce Spectre Series II brings a 308-mile range, NACS charging, and a 680 hp Black Badge variant to fight off a massive global sales decline.
Haye Kesteloo
Haye Kesteloo is the Editor in Chief and Founder of EVXL.co, where he covers all electric vehicle-related news, covering brands such as Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, Nissan and others. He fulfills a similar role at the drone news site DroneXL.co. Haye can be reached at haye @ evxl.co or @hayekesteloo.
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Philadelphia ChargePHL Plans To Add 800 Public EV Chargers, But 10 Years Is a Long Time to Wait
Philadelphia is moving to quadruple its public EV chargers network through a 10-year public-private partnership called ChargePHL, with legislation introduced Thursday by Council
Model Y
Toyota bZ Undercuts The Tesla Model Y By $5,000, But Edmunds Still Hands Tesla The Win
Toyota rebuilt its only electric SUV from the floor up for 2026, dropped the clumsy bZ4X name, cut the entry price below $35,000, and added 62 miles of range to its volume trim. Edmunds just put the renamed Toyota bZ head-to-head against the Tesla Model Y and reached a split decision: the bZ wins on…
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Tesla Stretches Its Austin Robotaxi Map Across the Metro While the Driverless Fleet Shrinks to 20 Cars
Tesla widened its unsupervised robotaxi service to cover the entire Austin metropolitan area on Wednesday, more than doubling the operating zone and opening up highway driving on Interstate 35 along with suburbs like Pflugerville and Manor. The company’s official Robotaxi account announced the change on X, and Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software,…
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Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Filings Reveal Just 42 Texas Vehicles as Tracker Data Shows a Shrinking Count
Tesla’s long-promised robotaxi network is far smaller than its rhetoric suggests. State filings made public on May 28 show the company has 42 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas, while a separate third-party tracker counts as few as 20 cars actually carrying passengers without a human safety driver. Both numbers land hard against Elon Musk’s prediction…
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Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door EV Brings 1,153 HP and a Fake V8, But Its Design Is Splitting the Internet
Mercedes-AMG has priced its first dedicated electric car, the all-electric GT 4-Door Coupe, starting at €154,700 for the GT 55 and €196,350 for the GT 63 in Germany. Order books opened this week in Europe, and U.S. deliveries are expected to begin late this year. The GT 63 is the most powerful road-going Mercedes-AMG yet.…
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Ferrari Luce Debut Sinks Stock 8.4% As Ex-CEO Says Strip The Prancing Horse Off Jony Ive’s EV
Ferrari's first electric car, the Ferrari Luce, has been on the road for under 48 hours and the prancing horse is already bleeding cash. Milan-listed...
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Tesla FSD v14.3.2 Cannonball Claim Cuts Roy’s Zero-Intervention Record By Eight Hours
A team led by Dan Burkland posted on X early Sunday that they completed a Cannonball Run from the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach in 49 hours and 55 minutes, with their Tesla Model 3 running Full Self-Driving (FSD) v14.3.2 the entire way and zero driver disengagements. If…
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