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Comfort rather than pace, an 88 kilowatt hour pack he says is not as efficient as the Model Y it is compared to, and hands-free driving he rates level with Super Cruise until the promised update lands.

Three days of measured output at its California headquarters: about 4.22 kilowatt hours parked and closed, 4.75 with the hatch open. An outside test house wired sensors to every string on the car.

Anker's Solarbank 4 E5000 Pro claims 2.5 kilowatts in both directions when hardwired, and a 3.3 year payback on dynamic tariffs. Plugged into a socket it is capped at 800 watts, which is the number that matters here.

Five kilowatt hours with solar built in and up to 3,000 watts out, launched at Battersea for around £1,500. EcoFlow was clear on camera that it needs an electrician and its own circuit.

68.6 kilowatt hours delivered at an average of 275 kilowatts, then a highway loop at 2.5 miles per kilowatt hour. A Porsche Cayenne on the same route managed 186 miles.

Series wiring would have put 81.2 volts into a 65 volt input. Parallel doubles the current instead, and removing half the array on a clear day cost roughly 250 watts.

Kelley Blue Book is enthusiastic about the suspension and the off-road hardware, and much less so about a 6 kilowatt home charger needing more than 20 hours.

Roughly 2,000 stalls in 2022 and about 6,500 expected by year end, with new sites at 8 to 12 stalls. On next generation power, the CEO says only that it will last a decade.

A 133 MW, 266 MWh project at Gigafactory Texas, told almost entirely through foundations, cable trays and commissioning tests. The product being sold here is schedule.

Control arms, axle and coolant line went in easier than the host expected. The factory fill procedure needs diagnostic software he says he cannot get, and the pack still will not take a charge.

A reported 305 kW into a 61 kWh LFP pack at roughly 647 amps. On the 500 amp chargers common across Europe, the same battery is limited by the cable rather than the chemistry.

It passed the cold soak, the heat lamp and the restart test. The reason to care is UL 3141, the certification that decides whether your electrician can skip a service upgrade.

Rosie Barnes on the five minute auction that decides what everyone gets paid, why the evening spike collapsed, and the three hours of free midday power now in the regulated offer.

Batteries generate nothing and still dispatch faster than anything before them. Ray Wills on Australian storage doubling year on year and the tipping points he thinks decide a grid.

One host rates it better than most drivers on the road. Both agree the person in the seat is still the failsafe. The disagreement is over what happens to a skill you stop using.

All three clear 400 brake horsepower, so What Car? settles part one on suitcases, seats and refinement. The BMW is the most fun and the noisiest. The Volvo is the quietest and the dullest.

The video puts the 28 kWh car at 70 kW peak and 10 to 80 percent in about 25 minutes, roughly half the time of the larger pack. Plus how to tell the two apart on the forecourt.

A record year, then a forecast of roughly 612 GW in 2026. The dip traces back to one Chinese policy deadline, and the report spends its pages on grids, storage and market rules instead.

Races run 25 to 26 laps, which the guests say is about a full pack, so the result turns on cell chemistry and cooling rather than capacity. Four Ioniq 5 Ns, a carbon Honda E and two range extenders make up the rest.

Three fast charging cabinets moving as Class 9 dangerous goods, a truck swap mid week, and an isolation fault on a Model 3 that turned out to be a rodent. German language, auto dubbed.

Around 450 miles on the smaller staggered wheels, a 123 kWh pack and roughly 400 kW peak charging. The app could not find the car in the mountains and showed it doing 59 mph while parked.

On the Porsche Cayenne Electric, the Mercedes CLA and the new Leaf, the host says the NACS port is DC only. He argues shipping CCS with an adapter would have confused fewer owners.

Lee says the industry's 99 percent figures describe site uptime, which can score a location as operational when one port works. Plus an R2 session logging 79.4 kWh from the dispenser.

The ZOUPW 450 pinned the 500 watt input limit while a 400 watt folder sat near 300. Shading three of its sections still left over 200 watts.

Baglino says a gigawatt data centre turns roughly 700 megawatts into heat. His answer is a solid state transformer he puts at 100 times smaller by volume, halving grid to chip losses.

490 kW from the same pack as the base car, a directly oil cooled rear motor, and a Coupe body Out of Spec says is EPA rated at 316 miles against the Turbo's 295.

The video reports up to 200 GWh of planned annual sodium capacity against roughly 1 GWh of sodium shipments this year, and a Tener module at 42 tons for more than 30 MWh.

The eActros 600 has no onboard AC charger, so he carries a mobile DC unit. The record he is chasing is measured in charging stops rather than hours.

Dual Model 3 Performance motors, a front subframe designed from scratch, and roughly 200 miles at 98 degrees. The shop calls the front end the hardest part of the build.

First 40 production bodies and chassis are ordered for October delivery, and Aptera says a design-for-manufacturing firm is taking warrants in exchange for roughly $15 million of the work.

Battery-electric share above 20 percent in Australia and around 27.5 percent in the UK, plus a charging price gap between France and Britain that the hosts struggle to explain.

Gjeebs took a GM-based Honda 247 miles through 107 degree heat and came within 22 miles of its own estimate. Then 10 to 80 percent took 58 minutes.

The retrofit needed all eight cameras and an estimated $4,000 to $6,000 in parts. Also covered: vehicle to load reaching the Model Y and skipping the early build dates.

One R2, one afternoon, three aggression levels. Following distance moves the most, lane changes barely shift, and low-speed acceleration in mild is the weak point.

A trailer-mounted DC fast charger met a Model Y, an R2, an R1S and a Cayenne at the roadside. Only one of the four needed more than a plug to wake back up.

304 tested miles against 327, 900 more pounds of towing for the Rivian, and a tie that came down to which compromise you would rather live with.

The 12,000 Wh/kg figure doing the rounds counts active material only. Matt Ferrell traces the lab work to a pack level figure of 700 Wh/kg, and says he found no CATL source for the bigger number.

Out of Spec BITS moved 27 kWh from a Gravity into a Tesla over NACS, holding around 237 volts at 40 amps where he says a Cybertruck sags toward 218.

A 1,200 watt kit up in under two hours, just under 4 kWh in a day, and a legal map that has moved fast since Utah went first. Cleanerwatt explains breaker masking and why the gateway matters.

No smoking gun for the overcurrent faults, but a clear look at the fourth inverter phase E-GMP uses for voltage boosting, and a bearing its maker will not sell you.

Out of Spec closes a two year Nissan Leaf lease. One participant totals his real spend at around $4,000 once registration and insurance are counted, on 158 miles driven.

Kim Java reports used Model X values climbing since production ended, and says the upgrade she actually wants is the newer onboard computer, which cannot be bought separately.

A new demonstration plant targets lithium phosphate for LFP cathodes while two existing Western Australian refineries have stalled. PLS says input costs sent its own processing to South Korea.

State of Charge scores the Lectron Nexus 4.05 out of five. It held full output through freeze and heat testing, but there is no way to dial the amperage down below 48.

Dan Caesar tells Robert Llewellyn he leaves the chief executive role at the end of September. The pair also run through July's sales figures, including Denmark near 97 percent electric and North America down 18.

Early high mileage cars start under £18,000, rising past £30,000 for younger ones. With the Neue Klasse arriving, the i4's showroom days look numbered and used supply is plentiful.

Zeekr lists 230 kW for the X's 61 kWh pack. Out of Spec Roaming measured 286 kW in Norway and took the car from 10 to 80 percent in under fifteen minutes, against an advertised eighteen.

Electric Trucker powered a Bavarian midsummer bonfire from his DAF XF Electric. He reports a 525 kWh pack, about 5 kW drawn all night, and 88 percent still showing the next morning.

CNBC asks how long a car lasts when the car is mostly software. The average US vehicle is now near 13 years old, and Tesla's Hardware 3 reversal is the clearest case of the silicon running out before the car does.

The Kilowatt Half Hour team react to Jaguar's first Type 01 interior images ahead of the October reveal, then explain why an electronic door handle needs a mechanical backup. Omoda and Jaecoo also passed 100,000 UK sales.

Out of Spec Reviews argues point-to-point driver assistance is at its best because so little governs it, then says he would like to buy a car on the current software and never let it update again.

Hagerty visits a Shanghai studio building half-scale electric Porsche 964s and Defenders on its own patented chassis, with custom tyres and a hydraulic handbrake. Prices start at $8,800 and climb from there.

InsideEVs asks the mini pickup's co-founders how they intend to survive the part that kills EV startups. The answer is deliberately small volumes, packs built in-house, and a Detroit tier one doing the body.

Around 225 kW on a 600 amp charger, about 190 kW on a Supercharger, and a pack the host reckons could take more than either. Past 40 percent state of charge the difference disappears entirely.

The ultra-fast chargers at the Mönchengladbach gigahub are the visible part. The product is the medium-voltage substation underneath and the software managing several hundred of them at once.

A peak near 478 kW at a Tesla V4 in Norway and roughly 91 kWh added in fifteen minutes, on the same brand of hardware that holds North American cars to 500 amps. The route planner had a worse day.

£69,390 buys 470 horsepower and a 2.1 tonne kerb weight, but only 311 miles on the wheels it ships with. The smaller battery is the whole point.

Hand the schedule to Pod's software and the rebate comes back as cash, capped at around £100 a year. Five weeks in, one owner is just under £12 up.

Over 102 kWh aboard, off-grid from April to September, and a car charged from the boat. The gap is moorings with no power, so they are building those too.

JLR styling, Chery engineering, Huawei driver assistance, 800 volts and a claimed 300 km of electric range. The one real gripe is a boot under 200 litres.

A tariff that reads wholesale prices, the solar forecast and your habits, then buys and sells without asking. Amber says it already automates 60,000 batteries in Australia.

Told it needed a new pack, Rich Rebuilds finds an unplugged high-voltage cut loop, a healthy battery reading 60 percent, and a park brake fault that will not let it move.

A $649.99 60-amp hardwired unit with a five-year warranty and OCPP support. State of Charge reports the connector broke on the second drop of the cold weather test.

Two weeks and a skid pan later, The Electric Viking measured 16.7 kWh per 100 km and argues the three-phase AC charging matters more than the DC peak.

Autogefühl measured a 185 kW charging peak and 320 miles at 60 mph on the big pack, and says the two cheaper batteries are identical hardware.

One of 250 Signature cars, listed by a dealership far above sticker. Auto Focus walks through why he does not expect it to appreciate.

Electric Supercar's Tesla-powered 1992 300ZX covered 150 miles with about a third of the battery left. Their pickup on the identical pack managed around 100.

1,500 miles in: 2.91 miles per kWh in triple digit heat, and three driver assistance faults the channel says Lucid is working on.

Electrifying walks through the battery sizes, the trim-level chaos and the 12.9 inch infotainment upgrade that separates a good used ID.3 from a frustrating one.

Electrifying's podcast digs into July's registration figures, the Renault 5's narrow lead over the Kia EV3, and 100 left-hand-drive Twingos now sitting in UK showrooms.

A record 27 openings in July took the network past 100 locations and 838 stalls. State of Charge breaks down the pricing and the state by state pace.

Will Prowse pushes three 48 volt packs to 200 amps. The cells never got hot. Where the management board sits, and whether the pack is UL listed, decided the result.

A 42 kWh pack split front and rear, a Tesla drive unit, and a fully reversible kit designed to bolt in without cutting the car.

One truck adds everything for $28,350. The other sells the skeleton for less. Tailosive EV argues they are chasing two different buyers, not the same one.

Edmunds tested the launch R2 at 305 miles against a 330 mile EPA rating, plus 3.7 seconds to 60 and a cabin noisier than a Model Y.

A chip plant outside Houston, camera modules from Samsung and LG, and a Starlink phone service pointed at the carriers. Kim Java walks through the week.

itBoat tours the Silent 62: 42 rigid glass panels, 50 to 60 kWh a day at sea, and an Atlantic crossing with the energy data streamed the whole way.

A DAF XF Electric exports 43 kW to power eight rally car chargers, then hits a tachograph rule written for diesel that the European Commission says needs no change.

More than 100,000 pre-orders, the most in BMW history, for a 912 km WLTP sedan on 800 volts. The constraint is not demand, it is how fast Debrecen can build them.

Forbes finds more than 3,200 Zeekr-built vans through the port of Los Angeles since 2024, at tariffs that turn a $39,000 vehicle into a nearly $89,000 one.

Ever runs a 1,020 hp Model S Plaid against a 1,234 hp Lucid Air Sapphire. The straight line gap is small. The steering, ride and price gaps are not.

State of Charge gets the details on Ford's midsize electric truck: $29,945 with destination, reservations in early 2027, and a battery size still unconfirmed.

CBS Austin reports on a bill that would let any Texan sell battery power back to their utility, as the state adds roughly 1,500 electric vehicles a week.

Autogefühl drives the 4xe all wheel drive against the Summit plug-in hybrid. The EV is smoother and quicker, and the price gap is smaller than expected.

Five stories, one theme. From a $28,350 Ford to a $250,500 Lucid, today's news is really about where the money goes and what gets cut to get there.

Three motors, 1,604 horsepower and a cool box that runs to minus six. Electrifying drives the Z at Goodwood and confirms UK pricing from just under 143,000 pounds.

Out of Spec ran both cars to a stop at 70 mph. The Cayenne managed 344.7 miles on 108 kWh, against roughly 356 miles from a Rivian carrying about 30 kWh more.

A 205 kWh battery, a 478 mile rating and a $95,000 as tested price. Gjeebs charged it from 10 to 80 percent in 46 minutes and recommends the trim below it.

All wheel drive, 5.02 seconds to 100 km/h and one of the best rides in the class. CarSauce could not better 20.3 kWh per 100 km, and that changes the maths.

Five stories, one recommendation. Four of today's reviews land on the same advice from completely different directions, and the halo trim loses every time.

Three motors and just over 1,600 horsepower, priced at roughly 150,000 to 200,000 euros. The party trick is a car that drifts and parks itself while nobody is inside.

State of Charge visits PowerUp America's first site in rural Kentucky: a canopy, pull through stalls, tap to pay and both connectors on all four ports.

A 153,000 mile Ioniq 5 with an intermittent shutdown, an $8,000 dealer quote, and a used drive unit fitted instead. Two brackets are all that stand between this job and a simple one.

An IIHS study puts Waymo in 68 percent fewer crashes than human drivers. The InsideEVs podcast digs into why that comparison is much harder to make than it sounds.

Five stories, one pattern. The best ideas in today's videos came from people who started with the person living with the car, not the spec sheet.

A camouflaged prototype driven in Sweden with a 58 kWh usable pack, 190 horsepower and a 0.24 drag coefficient. Electrifying reports 4.4 miles per kWh, with a support car managing 5.55.

Five pounds of petrol showed about 40 miles on the gauge. Five pounds of overnight home charging filled a Renault 5 to 100 percent and 215 indicated miles. The result rests entirely on the tariff.

Two adults, a child, two dogs, cargo and climate control running front and rear. The video reports 642.7 km covered with 5 percent remaining, and a gauge that disagreed with the navigation.

From July next year, New South Wales EV drivers face a charge of almost 3 cents per kilometre. ABC 7.30 reports fuel excise raises around $15 billion a year and the base is shrinking fast.

Five stories, one pattern. The running cost advantage is the electric car's real product, and today it is being engineered for, engineered away, demonstrated, stress tested and taxed.

Analyst Hans Eric Melin argues the story is not subsidies but decades of accumulated factory expertise, built around cities like Yichang. Europe can buy the plant, not the practice.

Per row climate control, a cabin Tesla says cools 15 percent faster, and a thermal efficiency gain the video reports returns seven miles of range. Powershare arrives, the wireless pad does not.

Out of Spec benchmarks the base Cayenne Electric at 4.33 seconds to 60 mph with launch control and 4.7 without, then stops it from 75 mph in 192 feet on a range tyre.

Four stories, one pattern. Flash charging, solid state, thermal software and horsepower are all further along than most buyers can actually reach.

Out of Spec ran the base Cayenne Electric through its 10 percent challenge in 91 degree heat. It charged from 10 to 78 percent in a quarter of an hour, then held 80 mph for 186 miles.

Co-founder Forest North says the compact electric pickup is now rated for 8,000 lb, up from an original target of 6,000. He credits regen braking and a hitch mounted close to the rear axle.

Driven+ ran both N cars on the same lap with racing driver Sam at the wheel. The 6 N won by under three tenths and entered the channel's top ten. It also demanded a lot more from him.

DW Planet A weighs three answers to solar's land problem. Two are already being built at scale. The third is a satellite roughly 1.7 km across, beaming power down by microwave.

Five stories, one pattern. Panels, motors and chargers have all reached good enough. The limits that decide outcomes now sit in the grid, the land, the heat and the software.

The autonomy debate is all horse race. But for millions of people who cannot drive, a car that drives itself is the keys, handed back. Why Rivian's road to Level 4 matters more than the spec sheet, and the one thing it still has to get right.

The eighth-generation ES is electric only in the UK, with a 517 litre boot and 22 kW AC charging. Electrifying found the DC charging speed and the asking price much harder to defend.

Rich Rebuilds bought a salvage Lucid Air for $4,100, then visited another owner whose lightly damaged car sits limited to 5 mph. The video reports Lucid told him a full re-shell is mandatory.

State of Charge mapped the R2 from empty to full on a 600 amp charger. The useful part of the curve ends early, and the top of the pack is where road trip time disappears.

Seven inches longer, a bigger pack and a claimed 325 plus miles. Out of Spec toured the North American Model Y L and found the third row easier to sit in than to climb into.

Five stories, one pattern. Making a good electric car is close to a solved problem. What happens after you buy one is where the real differences now live.

Reviewers drive everything and rarely want to own what they test. With the Rivian R2, several of them said they would, and a few put their own money down. Why that is the signal that matters more than any spec sheet.

People were reading website source code to find out when their Rivian was coming. Forum signatures listed Guide contact dates like military service records. We are not doing that again for the R2. The Rivian R2 Delivery Tracker is live.

RJ Scaringe earned $403 million in 2025 while Rivian lost $3.6 billion. That contradiction deserves to be looked at honestly. So does the case for why the board wrote the check anyway.

Everyone knows EVs cost less to maintain. Almost no one has run the full ledger. Oil changes, brake jobs, transmission flushes, spark plugs. Line by line, over 100,000 miles, with real prices from Kelley Blue Book, AAA, Consumer Reports, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The result is not what most people expect.

The founder of nexusEVnews on why he reads 30+ sources every morning, how he decides what makes the cut, and the channels and creators actually worth your time in 2026.

Every gas car comes with a decades-long CO₂ commitment that never appears on a window sticker. A full cradle-to-scrapyard accounting for both vehicles, and where one permanently outpaces the other.

The Lightship AE1 carries its own 69 kWh battery and 80 kW motor to neutralize trailer drag on the tow vehicle. Paired with a Rivian, the real-world efficiency numbers are hard to argue with. This is what all-electric glamping looks like when the hardware actually works.

Rivian is building a 300,000-unit plant outside Atlanta. Their spinoff ALSO makes electric cargo quads. Uber has a deal for autonomous R2s. A hypothetical about what it would look like if someone connected the pieces.

Before Rivian's IPO in 2021, RJ Scaringe set aside one percent of the company's equity and told a room full of investors that the natural world would be a stakeholder in their success. Not a charity. A stakeholder. Here is what that has actually come to mean.

About 80 percent of the fuel you put in your gas tank never actually moves the car. It turns into heat. This piece walks through exactly where that energy goes, what it costs you over a full year, and why the "but EVs run on coal" argument is shakier than people think. The same principle the featured video unpacks at a global scale, playing out in your driveway.

The viral videos are real. The math behind them is not. A data-driven comparison of EV vs. ICE vehicle fire rates across the U.S., Sweden, Norway, Poland, and Australia, plus the legitimate counterarguments every honest analysis has to include.

Everyone says EVs take too long to charge. Almost no one has done the annual math. Run the numbers yourself and the objection gets a lot less convincing.

A former R1T owner makes the case that the Rivian R2 is the most compelling new EV in three years and the moment Rivian has been building toward since day one.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that roughly 80% of EV charging happens at home, yet 44 million American households are renters. Jacob Hunka on why this is one of the most solvable problems in the energy transition, and the states already proving it.