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Light green BYD Atto 2 compact electric SUV driving along a city street lined with stone buildings

Ford · BYD

BYD Electric Car Sales Hit New Record as Hybrids Drop 17%

BYD sold a record 305,743 fully electric cars in October, up 37%, while plug-in hybrids fell 17% and exports slipped for a second month, its filing shows.

Damien KestelooNov 22 min read

White Rivian Commercial Van plugged in under a solar canopy at a charging depot, with dark Rivian vans lined up behind it

EDV

Rivian's Electric Van Gets AWD and 30% More Range

Rivian is now delivering EDV 700 vans with a 129 kWh LFP pack and optional AWD. EPA lab figures show how much range the second motor costs.

Damien KestelooOct 30

Worker in an orange hard hat and safety vest shining a flashlight over a large raw aluminum casting on an orange stand inside a caged factory cell

Ford

Ford Casts 5,000 Fathom Parts, 146 Pieces to Two, Repair Cost Unknown

Ford has cast 5,000-plus aluminum unicastings for its $28,350 Fathom pickup. Two replace 146 parts. The post says nothing about what a crash repair costs.

Haye KestelooOct 29

GM Announces Eyes-Off Driving For Cadillac Escalade IQ In 2028, Pivoting From Failed $10 Billion Robotaxi Venture

GM EV Sales Drop 27.5% In First Half Of 2026 As The Dead Tax Credit Splits Chevrolet From Cadillac

General Motors delivered 56,679 electric vehicles in the United States through the first six months of 2026, a 27.5 percent drop from the 78,167 units the same eleven nameplates recorded a year earlier. The company still holds the number two spot among US EV sellers, behind Tesla. The rest of GM’s business barely flinched. Total…

Haye KestelooJul 6

Rivian

Rivian Beats Q2 Delivery Estimates And Raises Its 2026 Forecast, The Quarter The R2 Finally Showed Up

Rivian delivered 12,194 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, up about 14% from the 10,661 it delivered a year ago and comfortably ahead of the 10,518 analysts expected, according to estimates compiled by Visible Alpha. And Rivian paired the beat with a bigger statement: it raised its full-year 2026 delivery forecast from 62,000-67,000 to…

Haye KestelooJul 2

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…

Haye KestelooJun 26

Rivian Bets $9.5 Million on Round Rock Service Center as R2 Launch Looms

Rivian R2 Lease Prices Top $800 a Month, and the Expired Federal Credit Is Why Buyers Are Walking

Rivian began handing the first R2 mid-size SUVs to customers on June 9, and within days the vehicle’s lease quotes, not its driving reviews, became the story. A 36-month lease on the R2 Performance lists at $829 a month on Rivian’s own configurator, and a lighter down payment pushes the figure past $1,000. EVXL reported…

Haye KestelooJun 17

Porsche

Porsche Rules Out a Fully Electric 911, Keeping Its Best-Seller on Gas

Porsche will not build a fully electric version of the 911, CEO Michael Leiters said this week, drawing a hard line around the one car the company cannot afford to get wrong. He made the remark at an event hosted by the German magazine Auto, Motor und Sport, the 911 stays combustion and hybrid. The…

Haye KestelooJun 11

Ford

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