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White Kia PV5 van in Korean police livery with a blue and yellow stripe and a red and blue roof light bar, displayed on an exhibition stand

Hyundai · Kia

Kia Unveils EV Police Cars as AI Police Van Patrols in Seoul

Kia showed PV5 and EV5 police concepts in Incheon on October 21. A separate AI-equipped PV5 patrol van has run with Seoul police since July.

Damien KestelooOct 213 min read

Silver Tesla Model Y driving along a two-lane road past a blurred rocky hillside

Rebates

California Hands Out 12,000 EV Rebates. Tesla's Share Lasted 5 Days

California's MyFirstEV rebate reached nearly 12,000 first-time buyers in ten weeks. Tesla's allocation ran dry after five days of orders in August.

Haye KestelooOct 19

Silver Lexus LFA Concept electric sports car seen from the front three-quarter angle on a wet floor under white light beams

Toyota

Toyota Patented Sequential Shifting for EVs Without a Real Gearbox

Toyota's US patent 12,679,217 cuts and restores motor torque to fake a sequential gearbox shift in an EV, no clutch pedal needed. The LFA could use it.

Damien KestelooOct 14

Tesla's Charging Empire Might Expand with Hyundai

Model 3

EV Batteries Post A 0.3% Failure Rate While Buyers Keep Pricing In A Repair Bill That Rarely Comes

The average electric vehicle still delivers up to 95% of its original range after five years on the road, according to battery-data firm Recurrent, and the highest-mileage cars are making the point hard to ignore. Richard Symons, who runs a used-EV dealership in southern England, has logged 247,000 miles on his five-year-old Tesla Model 3…

Haye KestelooJul 5

Model Y

Tesla Model Y Tops Consumer Reports For Reliability, But The Headline Score Rests On A Car Nobody Has Owned Yet

The Tesla Model Y is now the most reliable electric vehicle Consumer Reports tracks, the same outlet that named it the only pure EV on its 2026 Top Picks list. For a model that spent its first three years scoring in the 30s on CR’s reliability scale, that is a real turnaround, and it lines…

Haye KestelooJun 26

Taycan

Porsche Reverses Its Own Stance, Gives 2027 Taycan The Fake Gears It Once Called a Bad Idea

Porsche has given the 2027 Taycan simulated gear shifting, a feature its own development driver publicly dismissed less than two years ago. The system, called E-Shift, lets drivers row through eight virtual gears using paddles on the GT Sport steering wheel, with a virtual rev limiter and gear-specific drag torque tuned to mimic engine braking.…

Haye KestelooJun 17

BYD Recalls Nearly 97,000 EVs Over Potential Fire Risk

BYD

BYD Pays for Crashes Its Driver-Assist Causes, the Bill Tesla Still Hands to Owners

BYD will cover every dollar of an at-fault crash when its urban driver-assist system is steering, with no cap on the payout. The Chinese automaker pledged that guarantee on May 28 at its Intelligence Strategy Launch Event in Shenzhen, the same showcase where it revealed the XUANJI A3, which it calls China’s first homegrown 4-nanometer…

Haye KestelooJun 15

BMW

BMW M Concept Neue Klasse Previews The Electric M3 With Four Motors And One Missing Number

BMW pulled the cover off the M Concept Neue Klasse at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Friday, June 12, and the car is the closest public look yet at the electric M3 expected in 2027. The concept pairs four electric motors with an 800-volt system and a battery holding more than 100 kWh,…

Haye KestelooJun 12

Hyundai

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