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.
February registration numbers from across Europe show Tesla posting some of its best year-on-year gains in months. Norway was up 75.6%, France up 55%, Spain up 74%, according to registration data published by Automotive World. On paper, that reads like a genuine recovery. The problem is the floor those numbers are measured against: January 2026…
Tesla’s European CO₂ pool just got smaller. Both Toyota and Stellantis are withdrawing from the pooling arrangement for 2026, according to automotive analyst Matthias Schmidt and a newly published EU document listing the pool’s remaining members. That leaves Tesla, Ford, Honda, Mazda, and Suzuki as the active participants. The departures remove what have likely been…
Ride in the back seat of a quick EV long enough, and there’s a decent chance you’ve felt it: a faint queasiness that comes and goes with every burst of acceleration or pulse of regenerative braking. It’s not imaginary, and it’s not unique to sensitive passengers. Mercedes-Benz has now filed a patent for a system…
The most revealing thing about the Rivian Adventure Department (RAD) is not what it builds. It is that Rivian felt the need to formalize it at all. Rivian announced RAD on March 1, 2026, as first reported by Gizmodo. The company described it as a skunkworks operation, a small team doing lower-profile work that has…
There is no dipstick to pull, no cam belt to squint at, no oily fingerprints on a used paper service record. Buying a second-hand electric car strips away half the checklist that ICE buyers have relied on for decades. That sounds easier. In one sense it is. But a few specific failure points can cost…
February is always a short month in China, and Lunar New Year makes it shorter still. Factory shutdowns, travel, and disrupted logistics routinely cut monthly delivery figures by 30 to 50 percent for every Chinese automaker. So when Xiaomi posted February deliveries of more than 20,000 vehicles on its official Weibo account on Sunday, the…
Six consecutive months of year-on-year sales declines. That is the streak BYD is now on, and February made it the worst single month since the pandemic shut down China’s economy in early 2020. According to a stock market filing released Sunday, BYD’s global sales fell 41.1% from February 2025, with domestic sales collapsing 65% to…
Ten days. That’s how long Tesla kept the door open on a $59,990 Cybertruck. On March 1, the introductory price disappeared from the configurator and the new base figure landed at $69,990 — still $10,000 less than the Premium trim, but a notable jump for buyers who weren’t fast enough to order. Autoblog first reported…
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