TL;DR The Silverado EV offers 410 miles of range and strong reviews but sold only 14,000 units last year as price and towing anxiety keep buyers away. General Motors sold roughly 14,000 Chevrolet Silverado EVs in the United States and Canada last year, according to GM Authority sales data. The petrol-powered Silverado moves more than […]
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NAVEE has opened pre-orders for the WaveFly 5X, a luxury electric “flying speedboat” designed to skim just above the water. With a hefty $200,000 starting price, this water-and-air vehicle delivers an 85 km/h (53 mph) top speed and is aimed at people looking for a new toy to replace their Ferrari. On June 4, 2026, […]
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TL;DR Xiaomi’s home robotic charging arm auto-plugs and unplugs your EV. Q4 2026 retail launch in China, no price yet. Xiaomi has unveiled a robotic charging arm designed for residential garages that automatically plugs and unplugs an electric vehicle without any owner intervention. The system detects the vehicle’s position after parking, extends to the charging […]
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TL;DR Faraday Future raised $25M in convertible notes for its robotics pivot. Half is locked in investor-controlled accounts. Faraday Future announced on Thursday that it has raised $25 million through convertible promissory notes, bringing its total financing over the past two months to $70 million. The company says the capital is sufficient to fund Phase […]
Read MoreTL;DR Polestar CEO Michael Lohscheller told CNBC that “pump anxiety” has replaced range anxiety as the dominant consumer concern, with rising fuel prices from the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz closure driving a measurable shift toward EV demand. EU EV registrations jumped 51% in March. Polestar reported a widening Q1 net loss of $383 […]
Read MoreNew AutoMotive’s data tracker, reported by Reuters on Sunday, marks the threshold and puts the question to industrial policy: how much of the headline number will end up producing cells at scale, given that roughly 600 GWh of announced European battery capacity has already been delayed or cancelled. Europe has now invested cumulatively €200bn into […]
Read MoreTL;DR The Trump administration announced the Tesla Model Y is the first car to pass NHTSA’s new driver assistance safety tests. The same agency is investigating 3.2 million Teslas for crashing while using the company’s more advanced system. The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to pass […]
Read MoreTL;DR Jeff Bezos’s family office representative Melinda Lewison has left Slate Auto’s board months before the 1.4 billion dollar EV startup is scheduled to begin production of its affordable electric truck in Warsaw, Indiana. The departure follows a CEO change in March and raises questions about Bezos’s continued involvement in a company that has used […]
Read MoreTL;DR Tesla filed a bespoke Roadster badge trademark, its first standalone vehicle branding apart from the Cybertruck. The car was promised in 2017 for 2020 delivery and remains unbuilt, with a reveal now expected in late May or June 2026. Tesla has filed a trademark for a bespoke Roadster badge that looks like it belongs […]
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The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather than rule-based systems. Humble, a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup, has emerged from stealth with a […]
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The United States imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to keep them out of the American market. TikTok and YouTube are making that strategy irrelevant. A survey of 9,000 potential EV buyers by AlixPartners found that 58% had seen Chinese EVs on TikTok, 76% of 18-to-25-year-olds were aware of Chinese EV brands, and 69% […]
Read MoreThe Hefei-based company, which has delivered 6,400 intelligent electric heavy-duty trucks in China and is targeting a Hong Kong stock market listing, has attracted an Australian superannuation fund among its latest investors, a sign that its clean freight story is reaching institutional capital well beyond its home market. It has yet to turn a profit. […]
Read MoreIn short: Geely, which owns Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, and Zeekr, has launched the EX5, a battery-electric SUV starting at 109,800 yuan (~$15,300) with massaging seats, a 1,000-watt sound system, and up to 610 km of range. Already sold in 35 countries and the most exported BEV A-class crossover in China, it undercuts the cheapest European […]
Read MoreThe Japan-headquartered EV battery manufacturer, controlled by China’s Envision Group and backed by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, is mulling an IPO in Hong Kong that could raise up to $2 billion, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The move marks a significant change from earlier plans to list in the US. Envision AESC, the electric vehicle […]
Read MoreThe Lucid Gravity SUV runs Nuro’s autonomous driving system, powered by Nvidia Drive AGX Thor. A human safety operator sits behind the wheel. Uber has committed to buying at least 20,000 of these vehicles over the next six years. Uber and Nuro have begun employee test rides of a premium robotaxi service in San Francisco, […]
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In short: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system under UN Regulation 171, the EU standard governing driver control assistance systems. The approval follows 18 months of testing, 1.6 million kilometres of European road data, and more […]
Read MoreIn short: Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured £18.5 million in grant funding from the government’s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the country’s first commercial refinery for recovering critical minerals from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Located in Plymouth, Devon, the facility will process 24,000 EV batteries a year using Altilium’s proprietary EcoCathode™ process, […]
Read MoreIn short: On the day that 25% US tariffs on South Korean imports took effect, Kia held its 2026 CEO Investor Day in Seoul and presented a plan built for a changed world: a quietly reduced EV sales target for 2030, a major expansion of its hybrid range, the first confirmation of a North American electric […]
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In short: Uber has expanded its AWS contract to run real-time ride-matching infrastructure on Amazon’s Graviton4 processor and is piloting AI model training on Trainium3, joining Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple on a customer list that is becoming the clearest evidence yet that Amazon’s custom silicon strategy is working. Uber’s infrastructure runs on milliseconds. Every time a […]
Read MoreTesla delivered 358,023 battery electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2026, edging past BYD’s 310,389 pure electric sales to reclaim the global quarterly BEV lead it surrendered across all of 2025. The margin, roughly 48,000 units, was enough for the headline. What it was not enough to do was silence the questions multiplying around […]
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Li Shufu, the billionaire chairman of Geely Holding Group and the man who bought Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion in 2010, has arrived at a conclusion that many of his peers in the global automotive industry have been slower to reach: the world has too many car factories, and building more of them […]
Read MoreOn-road testing in Croatia’s capital is already underway using Pony.ai’s Gen-7 system on the Arcfox Alpha T5, a Chinese-manufactured robotaxi. Uber intends to invest in Verne. The three companies plan to scale to thousands of vehicles across Europe, but have declined to announce a commercial launch date. Mate Rimac built his reputation making electric hypercars […]
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Sony Honda Mobility has discontinued both its AFEELA 1 sedan and an unnamed follow-up SUV, less than a year after opening a dedicated showroom in California. Honda’s sweeping EV retreat left the joint venture without the technical foundations it needed to build either car. Nine days after Sony Honda Mobility opened its AFEELA Studio and […]
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