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A Xiaomi YU7 GT circled the Nürburgring Nordschleife with an empty driver’s seat and logged 10 minutes, 29.483 seconds, the first officially timed autonomous lap of the German circuit. Xiaomi set the run on June 8 and announced it on June 22, releasing onboard video that shows the steering wheel turning itself through the corners…
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.…
Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety stats that 10 of 11 researchers call misleading marketing.
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…
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…
The last Model S and last Model X ever produced at Tesla‘s Fremont factory rolled off the line on Saturday, May 9, 2026. Tesla announced the milestone on X just after 9 PM Pacific, posting photos of the final cars surrounded by the workers who built them. The flagship sedan ran for 14 years. The…
Porsche development driver Lars Kern set a 6:55.553 Nürburgring lap in a Taycan Turbo GT with the new Manthey Kit, faster than BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme.
Tesla will hold the Signature Edition delivery event for the final Model S and Model X ever built on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at its Fremont, California factory, according to the official invitation shared by Sawyer Merritt on X. The invitation has started going out to the 350 buyers who ordered one of the Plaid-only…
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