Volvo · Fuel Shock
Volvo Calls the End of Diesel as EU EVs Outsell Gas and Diesel Cars
EU EVs outsold gas and diesel cars combined in August, 196,486 to 179,219, as diesel fell to 6.4%. Volvo's sales chief calls it the end of diesel.
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BMW iX5 Unveiled With 435-Mile Range And The Same Divisive Face As The iX3
BMW unveiled the all-electric iX5 on June 30, 2026, alongside the rest of its fifth-generation X5 lineup at the company’s “Home of X” event at Plant Spartanburg, South Carolina. The iX5 60 xDrive will be the first fully electric BMW built in the United States, with production at Spartanburg starting later this year and customer…
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…
Polestar
Polestar Exits US Market As Connected Vehicle Rule Punishes Geely Ownership Over Factory Address
Polestar will stop selling new cars in the United States starting with the 2027 model year after the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security declined to grant it authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The Swedish brand announced the decision on Thursday, June 25. It is the first automaker pushed out of the American…
Model Y
China’s EV Dominance Came From City Hall, Not Beijing, And Washington Is Repeating Its Drone Mistake
New research published in The China Journal dismantles the story Washington tells itself about China’s electric vehicle rise. Political scientists Fengming Lu and Xiao Ma argue the boom was never engineered by a Beijing master plan. It grew from alliances between ambitious second-tier city governments and private carmakers that central regulators had locked out of…
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…
Slate
Slate Truck’s Real Price Is $27,500 — No Paint, No Radio, and the Tax Credit Already Gone
Slate Auto, a Michigan-based startup backed by investors reportedly including Jeff Bezos, has officially unveiled the Slate Truck — a two-seat electric pickup with a base MSRP of $27,500. The $7,500 federal EV tax credit that would have pushed that number below $20,000 no longer exists: Congress eliminated it via the Big Beautiful Bill, effective…
Tesla
Thatcham Research Wants EV Batteries Designed for Repair, Not the Scrapyard
Thatcham Research, the UK’s only automotive risk intelligence body, has published its New Electric Vehicle Blueprint, calling on automakers to redesign EVs so that battery packs, charge ports, and high-voltage systems can be repaired rather than written off after minor accidents. A Thatcham survey conducted with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) found…
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