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Black Tesla Model 3 Performance plugged in at a Tesla Supercharger stall on a wet parking lot

Fuel Shock

Gas Cars Fall Below 50% of Global Sales. U.S. New EVs Are Stuck at 6%

Gas-only cars fell to 49% of global sales in H1 2026, a first. U.S. new EV share is stuck near 6% as buyers answer $4 gas with hybrids and used EVs.

Haye KestelooOct 6

Dark purple Mazda CX-6e electric SUV parked under a timber-slatted roof with hills and blue sky behind it

Australia

Mazda CX-6e Swears at Pedestrians for You. NHTSA Wouldn't Allow It

Australian testers found the Mazda CX-6e reads any typed message, profanity included, through its front speaker. NHTSA pulled Tesla's Boombox for less.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Chased A Flying Car In China For Five Years And Left Its Project Lead Facing A Criminal Case

Reuters obtained hundreds of pages on Volkswagen's failed V.MO flying car. The program died in June 2024, and the Chinese manager VW promoted as the face of its innovation is now the named suspect in a Shanghai trade-secrets investigation.

Haye KestelooAug 1

BYD Dolphin Surf electric hatchback, one of the export models behind BYD's record overseas shipments

BYD

BYD Sales Rise 21.8% in July as Exports Hit a Record, but the 5 Million Target No Longer Adds Up

Exports hit a monthly record and drove a third straight month of growth. Run the arithmetic on the full-year guidance, though, and BYD finishes more than a million vehicles short of its own floor.

Haye KestelooAug 1

Model Y

Tesla Model Y Long Wheelbase Arrives In The US At $61,990, The Six-Seater Answer To The Cramped 7-Seater

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…

Haye KestelooJul 2

BYD

BYD Retakes The Global EV Crown From Tesla With Quarterly Sales That Shrank 8%

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…

Haye KestelooJul 1

Tesla

Tesla’s June Rebound In Europe Runs On Subsidy Calendars As France Doubles And Norway Falls 43%

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…

Haye KestelooJul 1

Lotus

Geely Ships Lotus EVs To Canada In July While The US Bans Its Polestar Twin

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…

Haye KestelooJun 26

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