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.
Rivian Automotive posted better-than-expected third-quarter earnings Tuesday, reporting a narrowed adjusted loss and positive gross profit for the second time this year. But the electric vehicle maker’s stock surge couldn’t mask the harsh reality waiting just beyond the quarterly numbers: October EV sales plummeted 43% compared to the same month last year, according to automotive…
The European Commission will announce a new regulatory category for affordable small electric vehicles in December, aiming to enable manufacturers to produce EVs priced between €15,000 and €20,000 ($16,000-$21,000) as Chinese competitors continue gaining market share with lower-cost models. European Commissioner for Industry Stephane Sejourne confirmed the timeline during the Automotive Industry D
Tesla’s China-made electric vehicle sales fell 9.9% year-over-year in October 2025 to 61,497 units, reversing a brief September uptick and signaling renewed struggles in the world’s largest EV market. The decline, reported by the China Passenger Car Association, marks a troubling return to the downward trajectory that plagued the automaker for eight consecutive months earlier…
Lucid Motors is scrambling to contain a customer relations crisis after lease-return customers reported receiving excessive wear-and-tear bills reaching thousands of dollars for minor cosmetic damage. One customer’s jaw-dropping $7,600 charge for issues including a nearly $5,000 taillight replacement has sparked widespread complaints on Reddit and owner forums, forcing the financially struggling E
Li Auto is recalling 11,411 of its flagship Mega multi-purpose electric vehicles in China following a dramatic battery fire in Shanghai on October 23, 2025, according to Bloomberg. The recall covers all 2024 Mega models produced between February 18, 2024, and December 27, 2024, citing a coolant defect that could trigger thermal runaway in the…
Volkswagen has secured 2.3 billion reais ($425.62 million) in credit lines from Brazil’s state development bank BNDES to accelerate hybrid vehicle development across South America, according to Reuters. The German automaker announced Friday it will use the financing to offer hybrid versions of all new vehicles developed and manufactured in the region starting in 2026.…
Ford CEO Jim Farley has escalated his warnings about Chinese automotive dominance to existential levels, declaring that China’s manufacturing capacity could single-handedly destroy the entire North American auto industry. In a stark CBS Sunday Morning interview that aired October 26, Farley compared the Chinese threat to 1980s Japan “on steroids”—his most alarming public assessment yet…
Elon Musk floated an audacious idea during Tesla’s Q3 2025 earnings call that flew under the radar: transforming the company’s millions of parked vehicles into a massive distributed computing network for artificial intelligence. The proposal, shared by Tesla analyst Nic Cruz Patane on October 28, suggests using idle Teslas as AI inference processors when they’re…
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