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Tesla

Tesla Fed Misleading FSD Safety Numbers to European Regulators, Reuters Finds

Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety stats that 10 of 11 researchers call misleading marketing.

Haye KestelooJun 15

Tesla

Tesla FSD Supervised Wins Belgium And Denmark Approvals In 48 Hours, But Brussels Holds The Kill Switch

Belgium approved Tesla‘s FSD Supervised on June 10, 2026, one day after Denmark cleared the same software. That makes Belgium the fifth European country and Denmark the fourth to authorize the driver assistance system. When EVXL covered the Dutch approval on April 10, the open question was whether other member states would recognize it quickly…

Haye KestelooJun 10

Ford

Ford’s $30,000 EV Pickup Breaks Cover in Long Beach, Far From the Detroit Roads Ford Flagged

Ford’s $30,000 electric pickup has been photographed on public streets for the first time, and the sighting happened in Long Beach, California, roughly 2,300 road miles from the metro Detroit area where the company said camouflaged prototypes would soon appear. The Autopian published exclusive spy photos on June 9, 2026, showing a camouflaged four-door pickup…

Haye KestelooJun 10

South Carolina

Geely Already Builds Cars In South Carolina, And The Chinese EV Ban Has A Factory-Sized Hole

Chinese electric vehicles are closer to American driveways than the 125% cumulative tariff wall suggests, and the question driving industry analysis this week is no longer whether they arrive but through which door. One door already exists: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group owns the Volvo plant near Charleston, South Carolina, where Volvo and Polestar models roll…

Haye KestelooJun 9

Audi

Audi Buries Its 2026 EV-Only Pledge Under a $700,000 V8 Supercar Called the Nuvolari

Audi revealed the Nuvolari today in Antibes, a 1,001 PS plug-in hybrid two-seater that the company calls the fastest and most powerful production vehicle in its history. The car pairs a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 with three electric motors, will be built in a run of 499 units, and reaches a top speed above 350 km/h…

Haye KestelooJun 4

Slate

Slate Truck Ships With No Modem, Making Driver Tracking Physically Impossible

Slate Auto's electric pickup ships with no embedded modem, so it physically can't transmit your location. Why that hardware choice beats any privacy policy.

Haye KestelooJun 4

Rolls-Royce Updates Its Electric Spectre Series II, Now the Most Powerful Rolls Ever

The new Rolls Royce Spectre Series II brings a 308-mile range, NACS charging, and a 680 hp Black Badge variant to fight off a massive global sales decline.

Haye KestelooJun 4

Taycan

Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door EV Brings 1,153 HP and a Fake V8, But Its Design Is Splitting the Internet

Mercedes-AMG has priced its first dedicated electric car, the all-electric GT 4-Door Coupe, starting at €154,700 for the GT 55 and €196,350 for the GT 63 in Germany. Order books opened this week in Europe, and U.S. deliveries are expected to begin late this year. The GT 63 is the most powerful road-going Mercedes-AMG yet.…

Haye KestelooMay 28

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