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Kyle Conner drove Tesla FSD in China for 45 minutes, then ran XPeng VLA 2.0 on public roads the same day. The P7 Ultra costs around 300,000 RMB ($42,000 USD), charges at roughly 500 kW, makes 600 horsepower, and uses cameras and radar without lidar.

A Netherlands-based builder converts a standard bike with a Tongsheng 1,000W mid-drive motor, 52V battery tucked into rear panniers, and a 3D-printed phone mount. Cruising speed with the current cassette: 53 km/h. The frame looks unmodified until you look closely.

FSD 14.3.2 puts all three driving systems on a shared model. Also this week: Mercedes removes lidar from its 2027 C-Class and CLA EVs, Tesla Semi production confirmed at 50,000 units per year, and one Illinois driver cut his Tesla insurance bill by 86% using Safety Score 3.0.

Two days of back-to-back driving. The GLC Electric rides on air suspension, packs a 39.1-inch hyperscreen, and claims 406 miles. The iX3 claims 500 miles, charges faster at 400 kW, and handles better. Boot space: identical at 520 litres. Real-world consumption: nearly equal.

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.

The ET9 is NIO's $100,000 flagship luxury sedan in China, built on a fully in-house electrical architecture with a 925V pack, active suspension, steer-by-wire, and DC charging approaching 600 kW. Out of Spec Reviews drove it through Beijing traffic and an early-morning session. Not sold outside China.

For the first time, average new EV prices have dropped below average new petrol car prices in the UK, by £785. Autotrader's marketplace data shows the crossover is driven entirely by discounts, not structural cost parity. Without incentives, EVs are still around 15 percent more expensive. Battery costs have fallen 93 percent since 2010.

Rivian produced 10,236 vehicles and delivered 10,365 in Q1 2026, posting $1.4 billion in revenue at a 9% gross margin. R2 production is live at Normal, Illinois. Georgia's first phase grows to 300,000 annual units. A tornado hit the factory. Full-year delivery guidance of 62,000 to 67,000 vehicles is unchanged.

Nissan's third-generation e-POWER system uses a petrol engine purely as a generator, with no mechanical link to the wheels. The electric motor handles all propulsion. Munro Live drove the European front-wheel-drive version ahead of the US Rogue launch later in 2026, which adds a rear motor and all-wheel drive.

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.

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.