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.
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BYD sold 490,168 NEVs in October, its best month of 2026. Battery-electric cars hit a record 305,743 units while plug-in hybrids fell 17.23%. We ran the numbers on the mix shift,…
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…
Pennsylvania is spending $37 million on 515 public charging ports in five counties around Philadelphia. Most of the money goes to on-street neighbourhood charging, not motorway…
Four Irish depots operated by An Post and DHL Express are connected to EirGrid's flexibility markets through aggregator VIOTAS. The sites hold 211 electric vehicles, 181 charge…
ACEA wants the EU weights and dimensions revision to include a 4-tonne allowance for zero-emission drivetrains. Our arithmetic: a 621 kWh truck pack weighs about 3.7 tonnes, and…
The UK Autumn Budget sets aside £100 million over two years for low-powered public chargers near homes. The 20% VAT on public charging stays. What the projected £150 a year really…
BYD employs 1.02 million, about 170,000 more than Toyota, GM, Ford and Tesla together, after adding 150,000 in ten months while sales fell 3.9%. In 2025 it sold 5.3 vehicles per…
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Ionity has opened its first battery-buffered charging park in Wertheim and plans around 50 storage systems across Europe in 2027. The aim is to add charging points before the grid…
Svolt has begun series production of a 100-kWh semi-solid battery pack in Changzhou. The company claims 500 km of range in 12 minutes at 900 volts. Customer names and test…
Denza published four cabin colours for the N8 before Chinese presales open on 26 October. The interior is the news. The 1,003 km CLTC range and five-minute charge claim deserve a…
Milence has opened its 39th European charging hub in Temse, Belgium: eight truck bays, four of them with megawatt charging up to 1.5 MW, at €0.379/kWh excluding VAT.
Jayco's Entegra Coach Embark pairs a 140 kWh battery with a 1.6-litre petrol generator: 110 miles on electricity, about 450 miles total, roughly $400,000, US sale planned for 2027.
Audi is recalling 9,048 Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback e-tron SUVs in the US and telling owners to charge to 80%. We worked out what that does to range and to the charging bill.
Ford has opened US orders for the 2027 Mustang Mach-E. The 88 kWh extended-range battery is now standard on Select and Premium, the small pack is gone, and a new Trail version…
A study commissioned by ACEA says Europe's battery supply chain cannot meet the local-content rules planned in the Industrial Accelerator Act. The arithmetic per million cars…
Xpeng's new 4.65-metre L03 starts at €35,600 and charges 10–80% in 20 minutes. We ran the numbers on consumption, cost per 100 km and the €3,000 battery step.
Huawei's car unit Yinwang has signed a framework deal with CATL and CAES to make Qiankun-equipped cars compatible with the 2,520-station Choco-swap network. No models, no dates,…
Firefly, Nio's small-car brand, has opened its first long-term standalone store worldwide in Bangkok and launched an updated right-hand-drive model in Thailand, seven months after…
China's MIIT filing lists the new BYD Tang EV AWD at 515 kW, 250 km/h and 2,520 kg. The five-seat SUV carries 455 kg of payload and an LFP pack whose capacity the document does…
China EV Marketplace sold 7,900 used Chinese EVs to EU buyers through September, up 280% year on year. Pre-owned cars skip the 45.3% tariff, and prices run about 40% under Chinese…
From 1 January 2027, Japan's battery-electric passenger-car subsidy ceiling falls from ¥1,250,000 to ¥750,000. Demand ran ahead of the programme's budget, so the government is…
GM Ventures led a $108 million Series B in Peak Energy. The sodium-ion cells will be built in GM's Michigan labs for grid storage, not electric cars, and Peak claims 20% lower…
Tesla pushed unsupervised FSD to Q2 2027, cut 2026 capex to $20 billion and saw energy revenue fall 16%. BMW's iX5 logged 460 kW. What those charging numbers really mean.
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