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.
A Tesla Semi slammed into two passenger vehicles stopped at a red light on U.S. 50 in Dayton, Nevada, on Sunday morning, June 28, killing a married couple and leaving a third person with life-threatening injuries. Preliminary statements gathered at the scene suggest the truck driver may have fallen asleep, according to the Lyon County…
BMW unveiled the all-electric iX5 on June 30, 2026, alongside the rest of its fifth-generation X5 lineup at the company’s “Home of X” event at Plant Spartanburg, South Carolina. The iX5 60 xDrive will be the first fully electric BMW built in the United States, with production at Spartanburg starting later this year and customer…
Organized crews stole trailers of Tesla car and home batteries straight off loading docks at the company’s Nevada facilities at least 11 times since last December, according to Storey County sheriff’s records. Nine of those suspected cargo thefts happened in January alone. The hauls ran into the millions: two of the earliest trailers each carried…
Geely will ship its first Lotus electric vehicles to Canada in July, with a delivery ceremony planned in Montreal, China’s ambassador to Canada Wang Di told Reuters on Friday, June 26. The Lotus Eletre SUVs are the first Chinese-owned and Chinese-built cars sold to Canadian buyers under the quota Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed with…
The Tesla Model Y is now the most reliable electric vehicle Consumer Reports tracks, the same outlet that named it the only pure EV on its 2026 Top Picks list. For a model that spent its first three years scoring in the 30s on CR’s reliability scale, that is a real turnaround, and it lines…
Volkswagen is considering cutting as many as 100,000 jobs and closing four German factories, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, June 26, in what would be the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history. The plants on the list are Volkswagen‘s sites in Hanover, Zwickau and Emden, plus Audi‘s factory in…
Polestar will stop selling new cars in the United States starting with the 2027 model year after the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security declined to grant it authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The Swedish brand announced the decision on Thursday, June 25. It is the first automaker pushed out of the American…
Tesla will award nine drivers free Supercharging for life in its 2026 competition. The catch: scoring began January 1 and entry requires sharing your data.
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