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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) will manufacture its AION V electric SUV at Magna International’s Austria facility, the companies announced Thursday, marking the second Chinese EV brand in two months to use European contract manufacturing as a workaround for steep EU tariffs on China-made vehicles. The move highlights a rapidly emerging strategy among Chinese automakers:…
Swedish battery-electric truck startup Einride has sued Danish logistics giant Maersk over a collapsed deployment deal that was supposed to put 300 zero-emission trucks on American roads but instead became the latest casualty of the post-subsidy EV market collapse. The lawsuit reveals a corporate sustainability commitment unraveling in real time. The Deal That Wasn’t Einride…
The UK Ministry of Defence is considering a blanket prohibition on Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles for military personnel, citing concerns that built-in cameras and microphones could enable espionage. The move follows months of restrictions at sensitive military sites and mirrors security theater tactics the United States previously deployed against Chinese drone manufacturer DJI—despite a
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