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.
US clean-energy investments hit a record $75 billion in the third quarter of 2025, driven almost entirely by consumers scrambling to buy electric vehicles before federal tax credits expired on September 30, according to new data from Rhodium Group and MIT. But the headline number conceals a brutal truth: EV manufacturing investments collapsed 30% compared…
A new wrongful death lawsuit filed against Tesla Inc. highlights the ongoing safety crisis surrounding the company’s electronic door handle design, alleging that a couple became trapped in their burning Model 3 after a January 2023 crash in Washington state left one dead and the other seriously injured. The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District…
China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) will manufacture its AION V electric SUV at Magna International’s Austria facility, the companies announced Thursday, marking the second Chinese EV brand in two months to use European contract manufacturing as a workaround for steep EU tariffs on China-made vehicles. The move highlights a rapidly emerging strategy among Chinese automakers:…
Vietnamese EV maker VinFast reported staggering third-quarter losses of $910.85 million, nearly double the $503 million lost in the same period last year, as the company’s premium pricing strategy crumbles under pressure from cost-efficient Chinese competitors. Despite achieving 47% revenue growth, VinFast’s gross margins deteriorated to negative 56.2%, meaning the company loses more than half…
Tesla is aggressively expanding its direct rental program beyond California, launching a $60/day service in five major U.S. cities to combat post-subsidy sales slumps. Tesla isn’t just selling cars anymore—it’s renting them directly to you for less than the cost of a standard rental car. Following a quiet pilot in California, the automaker is rapidly…
Lucid Motors just dropped the price of its critical SUV to under $80,000, but for buyers hoping for a federal subsidy, the timing couldn’t be worse. Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) officially launched the Lucid Gravity Touring on Thursday with a starting price of $79,900, a strategic move to broaden the luxury SUV’s appeal as demand…
Foxconn Chairman Young Liu is placing a massive bet on artificial intelligence while stepping back from electric vehicles, predicting that China’s brutally competitive EV market will soon experience a devastating consolidation that forces unprofitable startups to disappear. The world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer plans to invest $2 billion to $3 billion annually in AI infrastructure…
Ford’s UK managing director is pushing back against proposed electric vehicle taxation just weeks after the U.S. federal tax credit expiration triggered the exact market collapse she’s warning about—exposing how legacy automakers built EV strategies dependent on perpetual government subsidies rather than genuine competitiveness. Lisa Brankin, Ford UK’s chair and managing director, told the BBC’s…
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