Volkswagen filed the ID. UP trademark at EUIPO and the DPMA on 22 October 2026. The €20,000 city EV due in 2027 should carry a 37 kWh LFP pack, which works out at €541 per kWh of…
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The UK's Depot Charging Scheme is open again for fleets, with £38 million for 2027/28. The grant rate falls from 70% to 60% of eligible costs and applications close on 26 February…
Lucid's Model Y rival is on track for the second half of 2027. We ran the $50,000 US sticker through European import duty and VAT, and the number changes a lot.
The first Dongfeng Mage EV has left the line at Egypt's state-owned El Nasr Automotive works, with 45 per cent local content. The government wants 100,000 electric vehicles a year…
PlugShare 8.0 for iPhone brings dark mode, distance readouts between charging stops and a rebuilt Apple Watch app. Android users wait until early 2027. What the update fixes, and…
BYD built its 19 millionth new energy vehicle on 9 November, 124 days after number 17 million. Fang Cheng Bao opened reservations for the six-seat Tai 9 plug-in hybrid the same…
A San Diego court deemed Tesla liable for fraud after the company failed to hand over evidence in a Solar Roof case. The 18.2 kW system never produced a single kWh. Tesla once…
FAW-VW starts taking pre-orders for the ID. AURA L5 on 16 November. The electric family sedan is a China-only affair for now, but the software under it may end up in most European…
Four cabless electric transport vehicles now run between production and the warehouse at Lorenz Snacks in Bavaria. Einride owns and operates them, two electric trucks back them…
A Brussels think tank puts the cost of requiring European battery cells at €2,100 for a 60 kWh car. We ran the numbers on what that means for a family budget and how long the…
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EVgo has opened its first site with Tesla V4 Superchargers near Chicago: twelve posts, up to 500 kW each, and EVgo setting the price. What the NACS rollout changes for drivers.
The Austrian logistics company will run 24 battery-electric trucks by the end of 2026, up from 13, and says 60 % of its Austrian fleet will be electric. We ran the cost per 100 km.
BMW North America bundles $300 for its ChargingNetwork and $200 for IONNA with 2027 i5, i7 and iX3 models, plus a year of 25% IONNA discounts. We ran the numbers on what $500 buys.
Ireland now has 270,000 electric cars and 3,620 public charging points worth about 280 MW. Measured against AFIR's 1.3 kW per EV benchmark, that leaves a gap of roughly 71 MW.
Renault and John Cockerill built a cab-less electric 4x4 for the French army, claiming 400 km of range and a 1-tonne payload. We ran the numbers on what 400 km costs in battery…
Mercedes is developing decentralised microconverters of up to 3 kW per module that keep an EV's high-voltage bus at a constant 800 volts and make the separate on-board charger…
SNE Research counted 994.5 GWh of batteries installed in EVs, plug-in and full hybrids in January–September 2026, up 19.7%. CATL holds 39.1%, BYD 15.2%, seven Chinese firms 73.0%.
China taxes lithium-ion cells at 2% and lets sodium-ion off until 2028. On a 60 kWh family car the gap works out to about $68, not thousands.
October 2026 numbers from China: BYD sold 483,125 passenger cars, Geely 214,996, Leapmotor 106,127 and Xpeng a record 50,237. Not everyone grew – HIMA fell 50.8% year on year.
Yangwang has confirmed rear-hinged doors for its Altior flagship. The 5,500 mm sedan is expected in Dubai around 5 November, with prices rumoured from 2 million yuan, roughly…
BYD's first Ocean-series MPV has been caught testing in China: 5,145 mm long, seven seats, roof LiDAR and a grille that points to DM-i plug-in power. Europe is unconfirmed, and it…
Vingroup plans to invest $500 million (€449 million) in a Philippine EV factory that the DTI says would start with annual capacity of 200,000 vehicles – its third production site…
KBA data for October: 94,086 new battery-electric cars, 37% of the German market. Petrol and diesel together managed 62,398. Germany has already beaten the VDA's full-year…
Electroway's new hub at Magna Park has 32 Kempower DC connectors rated at 400 kW and 2.4 MW of site power. We ran the arithmetic on charging time and cost per 100 km.
UK electric car registrations reached 32% of the market in October – 49,155 cars, up 54% year on year. Germany hit 37%. What the numbers mean for buyers, and where the rules go…
iSeeCars measured used EVs at 41.9 days on the lot in September 2026 against 54.8 for petrol cars, with EV prices up 9.8%. No Tesla made the top ten fastest sellers.
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