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BMW Mulls Chinese-Style Range Extenders For X5 And 7-Series As China Sales Crater
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BMW Mulls Chinese-Style Range Extenders For X5 And 7-Series As China Sales Crater

BMW is weighing the addition of range-extending engines to some of its vehicles in China, including the X5 SUV and 7-Series sedan, according to people familiar with the matter. The move would make BMW the first German automaker to embrace technology popularized by Chinese competitors like BYD and Li Auto. This isn’t innovation. It’s adaptation…

Lucid

Lucid Beats Tesla and Porsche for Best Luxury EV Brand With Just Two Models

A four-year-old startup with only two vehicles just embarrassed the entire luxury EV establishment. U.S. News & World Report named Lucid Motors the Best Luxury Electric Vehicle Brand for 2025, ranking the American upstart above Tesla, Porsche, BMW, and Rivian. The recognition validates what Lucid has been claiming since its founding: engineering excellence can trump…

Xiaomi Enters Electric Vehicle Market with Ambitious Goals
Model Y

Former GM VP Says Xiaomi YU7 Beats Tesla Model Y ‘In Almost Every Way’

A former General Motors executive who spent 12 years engineering America’s best-selling trucks just delivered a damning verdict on Tesla’s flagship SUV. Terry Woychowski, President of Caresoft Global and former GM Vice President, told Bloomberg that Xiaomi’s YU7 electric SUV has “bested” Tesla’s Model Y “in almost every way.” The assessment comes from one of…

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German EV Sales Are a Statistical Illusion: 1 in 4 ‘Sold’ Cars Never Reached Real Buyers

Germany’s electric vehicle boom is built on a foundation of corporate accounting tricks, not genuine consumer demand. A German industry association warned Monday that nearly one in four newly registered EVs in 2025 were “self-registered” by manufacturers and dealers rather than sold to actual customers. The revelation exposes a troubling gap between official registration statistics…

Model 3

Tesla Slashes Model 3 Lease Down Payment to $1,500 as Post-Tax-Credit Sales Pressure Mounts

Tesla has dropped the down payment requirement on Model 3 Premium RWD leases to just $1,500 while maintaining the $299 monthly payment, marking the automaker’s most aggressive pricing move since the federal EV tax credit expired two months ago. The deal represents a 63% reduction in upfront costs compared to the $3,993 down payment Tesla…

EU Plans December Announcement For Affordable Small EVs To Counter Chinese Competition
F-150 Lightning

UK Extends EV Subsidies While Planning Mileage Tax to Recover Lost Fuel Revenue

Britain’s government unveiled a £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) extension of electric vehicle purchase subsidies on Friday, just hours before confirming plans to impose a per-mile tax on EV drivers starting in 2028—a policy contradiction that exposes the fundamental revenue crisis governments face as electrification eliminates fuel duty income. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce the subsidy…

BMW iX3 Shatters Range Expectations With 626-Mile Real-World Test Drive
F-150 Lightning

EV Sales Surge Masks Manufacturing Collapse As Q3 Data Reveals Subsidy Cliff Reality

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…

Tesla's Charging Empire Might Expand with Hyundai
Tesla

Tesla Faces New Fatal Door Handle Lawsuit After Washington State Crash

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…

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