THE EV WORLD, CONNECTED.

Out of Spec Reviews gets an early look at the electric iX5, which BMW says pairs a 144 kWh battery with 460 kW charging and a starting price of $79,800.

The Waveform crew digs into Slate's stripped-down electric pickup, a roughly $25,000 truck that charges extra for basics like speakers, as the company says production is close.

Gjeebs reviews a $65,485 Mach-E California Special and logs a slow 10 to 80 percent charge in extreme heat, a result the host suspects was not typical.

Reuters covers Shell's Triple 10 concept, which the company says charges 10 to 80 percent in under 10 minutes using an immersion-cooled battery and a single cooling circuit.

Today's stories split between making the battery bigger and making it work harder, with the premium set caught in between.

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.

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.