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Volkswagen's Mission Efficiency EV Is Built to Waste Almost Nothing

Volkswagen's Mission Efficiency ran 794 miles Wolfsburg to Vienna on one charge stop, with a record 0.158 drag coefficient and a 54.9-kWh battery.

Damien KestelooSep 146 min read

Rivian

Rivian Files To Sell 75 Million Shares Into Its R2 Rally, The Dilution We Called In February

Rivian filed to sell 75 million new Class A shares after Monday’s market close, a deal worth roughly $1.5 billion at the day’s $20.14 closing price. The company says the proceeds will fund general corporate purposes, including the equity contribution requirements tied to its Department of Energy (DOE) loan for the Georgia factory. The timing…

Haye KestelooJul 6

Tesla

Bentley Names Its First EV Torcal, Borrowing From Torque Eight Months After Its CEO Said Everyone Has It

Bentley will call its first electric car the Torcal, the company announced from Crewe on July 6, 2026, ahead of a full reveal set for London on September 23. The name draws on El Torcal de Antequera, a limestone formation in Andalusia, Spain, and on the Latin torquere, to twist, the root of the modern…

Haye KestelooJul 6

Tesla

Tesla’s June Rebound In Europe Runs On Subsidy Calendars As France Doubles And Norway Falls 43%

Tesla registrations climbed across most of Europe’s big EV markets in June. France more than doubled from a year earlier, Sweden rose 56%, Portugal and Italy each gained 43%, Denmark added 39%, and Spain managed 5.6% growth. Norway went the other way and dropped 43%. The numbers land as Tesla prepares to publish second-quarter delivery…

Haye KestelooJul 1

Toyota

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda Says He Feels ‘Very Alone’ as the Industry Shifts to EVs

Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda told British outlet Carwow this week that the industry-wide move to battery-electric vehicles is the single thing he fears most about the future of the car, and that his public defense of combustion engines has left him feeling isolated at the top of the world’s largest automaker. The interview, conducted by…

Haye KestelooJun 9

Audi

Audi Buries Its 2026 EV-Only Pledge Under a $700,000 V8 Supercar Called the Nuvolari

Audi revealed the Nuvolari today in Antibes, a 1,001 PS plug-in hybrid two-seater that the company calls the fastest and most powerful production vehicle in its history. The car pairs a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 with three electric motors, will be built in a run of 499 units, and reaches a top speed above 350 km/h…

Haye KestelooJun 4

BYD Denza Z9GT Claims World's Longest EV Range at 1,036 Km, But CLTC Numbers Need Context

China

Western Automakers’ EV Retreat Hands China a Structural Advantage That Gets Harder to Reverse Every Quarter

The Guardian’s Saturday analysis frames what’s happening in Western auto boardrooms with unusual bluntness: pulling back from electric vehicles while oil prices spike over the Iran war is, as one former industry chief puts it, a “profound strategic mistake.” The historical parallel is Detroit in the 1980s, when Japanese competitors ate the American industry’s lunch…

Haye KestelooMar 22

Model S

Rolls-Royce Drops 2030 All-Electric Pledge as Spectre Sales Fall 47 Percent

Rolls-Royce CEO Chris Brownridge dropped the 2030 all-electric target March 18 as Spectre deliveries fell 47% to 1,002 units in 2025. The V12 stays.

Haye KestelooMar 19

Volkswagen

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