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.
Two U.S. senators want federal regulators to pull apart the statistics Tesla uses to claim its driver-assistance software is far safer than a human behind the wheel. Senators Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter on June 16, 2026 to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Jonathan Morrison, calling…
Dutch transport minister Vincent Karremans told parliament on Tuesday, June 16, that the RDW did not lean on Tesla’s own safety figures when it approved Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for Dutch roads. The denial answers a Reuters investigation published the day before, which reported that Tesla handed regulators in the Netherlands and Sweden self-published statistics that…
BYD will cover every dollar of an at-fault crash when its urban driver-assist system is steering, with no cap on the payout. The Chinese automaker pledged that guarantee on May 28 at its Intelligence Strategy Launch Event in Shenzhen, the same showcase where it revealed the XUANJI A3, which it calls China’s first homegrown 4-nanometer…
Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety stats that 10 of 11 researchers call misleading marketing.
Tesla’s Cybercab now has a federal certificate. The EPA issued certification for test group TTSLV00.0L1A on May 26, 2026, with an introduction-into-commerce date of May 29, 2026, and the public filing settles months of guesswork about what the two-seat robotaxi actually is under the skin. It is front-wheel drive. It runs a single AC three-phase…
The outbound lot at Gigafactory Texas held its largest visible batch of production Cybercab units yet on Sunday, June 14, 2026, with the gold-finished robotaxis staged in tight rows along the factory’s west side. A widely shared count from a Tesla observer on X put the tally at a record 102 cars, a figure that…
BMW pulled the cover off the M Concept Neue Klasse at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Friday, June 12, and the car is the closest public look yet at the electric M3 expected in 2027. The concept pairs four electric motors with an 800-volt system and a battery holding more than 100 kWh,…
Porsche will not build a fully electric version of the 911, CEO Michael Leiters said this week, drawing a hard line around the one car the company cannot afford to get wrong. He made the remark at an event hosted by the German magazine Auto, Motor und Sport, the 911 stays combustion and hybrid. The…
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