Haye Kesteloo is the Editor in Chief and Founder of EVXL.co, where he covers all electric vehicle-related news, covering brands such as Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, Nissan and others. He fulfills a similar role at the drone news site DroneXL.co. Haye can be reached at haye @ evxl.co or @hayekesteloo.
Thatcham Research, the UK’s only automotive risk intelligence body, has published its New Electric Vehicle Blueprint, calling on automakers to redesign EVs so that battery packs, charge ports, and high-voltage systems can be repaired rather than written off after minor accidents. A Thatcham survey conducted with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) found…
A 320-mile road trip to Ohio in a BMW iX xDrive40 reminded Axios reporter Joann Muller of something the growing charger count doesn’t fix: actually using a public fast charger in 2026 is still a test of patience, physical stamina, and app tolerance. Her report, published April 8, is a useful reality check on where…
Environmental groups are publicly calling out Tesla for what they describe as years of silence on a promised riverfront restoration project at Gigafactory Texas — and a site plan filed with the City of Austin late last month suggests the company may finally be moving, at least on paper. Andrea Guzmán reported on April 8…
In February 2022, analysts expected Tesla to generate $38.8 billion in free cash flow in 2026. The current consensus for that same year: negative $5.1 billion. That $43.9 billion swing, documented this week by Bloomberg Opinion columnist Liam Denning (paywalled), is not a rounding error or a bad quarter. It equals almost exactly the total…
Tesla has pushed Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3 to owners via an over-the-air update, shipping inside software version 2026.2.9.6. The release notes, published on NotATeslaApp and flagged by Tesla reporter Sawyer Merritt on X, is one of the larger FSD point releases in recent memory. The headline change is a ground-up rewrite of the AI compiler…
Tesla registrations in Germany more than quadrupled in March 2026 compared to a year earlier, according to data published Tuesday by Germany’s federal road traffic authority, the KBA (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt). Reuters reported (paywalled; KBA monthly registration data available at kba.de) that newly registered Tesla vehicles jumped 315.1% year-on-year to 9,252 units in March. For context: that…
EPA certification documents for the Rivian R2 have leaked via Rivian Forums, and the range numbers beat the company’s own projections. The Performance trim on 21-inch all-season tires earned an EPA-estimated 335 miles of range, five miles more than the 330-mile figure Rivian published at the March SXSW launch. Jonathan M. Gitlin at Ars Technica…
JP Morgan analyst Ryan Brinkman is reiterating his Sell rating on Tesla (TSLA) with a $145 price target, implying roughly 60% downside from the stock’s current trading level near $367. The call, circulated Monday in a research note flagged by Yahoo Finance anchor Brian Sozzi on X, lands four days after Tesla reported Q1 2026…
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