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Haye Kesteloo

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.

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Ford's $30,000 EV Pickup Breaks Cover in Long Beach, Far From the Detroit Roads Ford Flagged
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Ford’s $30,000 EV Pickup Breaks Cover in Long Beach, Far From the Detroit Roads Ford Flagged

Ford’s $30,000 electric pickup has been photographed on public streets for the first time, and the sighting happened in Long Beach, California, roughly 2,300 road miles from the metro Detroit area where the company said camouflaged prototypes would soon appear. The Autopian published exclusive spy photos on June 9, 2026, showing a camouflaged four-door pickup…

Tesla

China’s EV Dominance Came From City Hall, Not Beijing, And Washington Is Repeating Its Drone Mistake

New research published in The China Journal dismantles the story Washington tells itself about China’s electric vehicle rise. Political scientists Fengming Lu and Xiao Ma argue the boom was never engineered by a Beijing master plan. It grew from alliances between ambitious second-tier city governments and private carmakers that central regulators had locked out of…

Geely Already Builds Cars In South Carolina, And The Chinese EV Ban Has A Factory-Sized Hole
GM

Geely Already Builds Cars In South Carolina, And The Chinese EV Ban Has A Factory-Sized Hole

Chinese electric vehicles are closer to American driveways than the 125% cumulative tariff wall suggests, and the question driving industry analysis this week is no longer whether they arrive but through which door. One door already exists: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group owns the Volvo plant near Charleston, South Carolina, where Volvo and Polestar models roll…

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda Says He Feels 'Very Alone' as the Industry Shifts to EVs
Toyota

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda Says He Feels ‘Very Alone’ as the Industry Shifts to EVs

Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda told British outlet Carwow this week that the industry-wide move to battery-electric vehicles is the single thing he fears most about the future of the car, and that his public defense of combustion engines has left him feeling isolated at the top of the world’s largest automaker. The interview, conducted by…

Tesla Robotaxi Mishaps Spark Safety Concerns in Austin Trials
Tesla

Tesla Asks Nevada for 5,000 Robotaxis While Its Real Fleet Sits at Roughly 20 Cars

Tesla has filed for a permit to run a paid robotaxi service across Clark County, Nevada, and the number it put on paper is the part worth stopping on. The application, logged as Docket 26-05015 with the Nevada Transportation Authority, asks for authorization to operate up to 5,000 autonomous vehicles in the first 12 months…

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