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.
Bentley will call its first electric car the Torcal, the company announced from Crewe on July 6, 2026, ahead of a full reveal set for London on September 23. The name draws on El Torcal de Antequera, a limestone formation in Andalusia, Spain, and on the Latin torquere, to twist, the root of the modern…
The average electric vehicle still delivers up to 95% of its original range after five years on the road, according to battery-data firm Recurrent, and the highest-mileage cars are making the point hard to ignore. Richard Symons, who runs a used-EV dealership in southern England, has logged 247,000 miles on his five-year-old Tesla Model 3…
Tesla launched the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US and Puerto Rico today, a stretched, three-row, six-seat version of its best-seller with 325 miles of range and a 4.4-second 0-60 time. Tesla’s configurator lists it as the Model Y L Premium at $61,990, in Launch Series trim with all-wheel drive, sitting above the $57,990…
McMurtry Automotive unveiled the production version of the Speirling Pure, its all-electric track-only fan car, with US customer deliveries beginning in late 2026 and a starting price of $1.3 million. The headline numbers read like a physics dare: 1,000 bhp (745 kW) per McMurtry’s spec sheet, 0-60 mph in 1.55 seconds with a one-foot rollout,…
Rivian delivered 12,194 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, up about 14% from the 10,661 it delivered a year ago and comfortably ahead of the 10,518 analysts expected, according to estimates compiled by Visible Alpha. And Rivian paired the beat with a bigger statement: it raised its full-year 2026 delivery forecast from 62,000-67,000 to…
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, up 25% from a year ago and its fourth-best delivery quarter ever. Wall Street expected 406,024. Tesla beat its own compiled analyst consensus by 74,102 vehicles, an 18% overshoot that nobody on the sell side saw coming. The company also produced 451,758 vehicles and deployed…
BYD sold 557,090 fully electric vehicles in the second quarter, enough to take back the global BEV crown from Tesla a full day before Tesla reports its own numbers. Here is the part most coverage will skip: that winning figure is 8.22% lower than what BYD sold in the same quarter last year. Tesla publishes…
Tesla registrations climbed across most of Europe’s big EV markets in June. France more than doubled from a year earlier, Sweden rose 56%, Portugal and Italy each gained 43%, Denmark added 39%, and Spain managed 5.6% growth. Norway went the other way and dropped 43%. The numbers land as Tesla prepares to publish second-quarter delivery…
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