EVXL covers the electric vehicle industry: Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, BYD, Zeekr, and every EV that matters — breaking news, deep dives, and The Briefing newsletter.https://evxl.co/en-ushttps://evxl.co/2026/07/06/rivian-75-million-share-sale-doe-loan/https://evxl.co/2026/07/06/rivian-75-million-share-sale-doe-loan/Rivian filed to sell 75 million new Class A shares after Monday’s market close, a deal worth roughly $1.5 billion at the day’s $20.14 closing price. The company says the proceeds will fund general corporate purposes, including the equity contribution requirements tied to its Department of Energy (DOE) loan for the Georgia factory. The timing…Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:12:08 GMTRivianr2secvolkswagenhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/06/gm-ev-sales-first-half-2026-tax-credit-split/https://evxl.co/2026/07/06/gm-ev-sales-first-half-2026-tax-credit-split/General Motors delivered 56,679 electric vehicles in the United States through the first six months of 2026, a 27.5 percent drop from the 78,167 units the same eleven nameplates recorded a year earlier. The company still holds the number two spot among US EV sellers, behind Tesla. The rest of GM’s business barely flinched. Total…Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:10:19 GMTCadillacbmwgmtennesseeteslaunited-stateshaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/06/tesla-uk-best-june-ev-30-percent/https://evxl.co/2026/07/06/tesla-uk-best-june-ev-30-percent/Tesla registered 12,173 new cars in the United Kingdom in June, the brand’s best June on record there and a 58% jump over the 7,719 it managed a year earlier, according to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) data published Monday, July 6, 2026. That volume handed Tesla 5.7% of the entire British new…Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:46:29 GMTTeslabydeuropefrancemodel-3model-yunited-kingdomhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/06/bentley-ev-torcal/https://evxl.co/2026/07/06/bentley-ev-torcal/Bentley will call its first electric car the Torcal, the company announced from Crewe on July 6, 2026, ahead of a full reveal set for London on September 23. The name draws on El Torcal de Antequera, a limestone formation in Andalusia, Spain, and on the Latin torquere, to twist, the root of the modern…Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:44:57 GMTTeslaporschevolkswagenhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/05/ev-battery-longevity-perception-gap/https://evxl.co/2026/07/05/ev-battery-longevity-perception-gap/The average electric vehicle still delivers up to 95% of its original range after five years on the road, according to battery-data firm Recurrent, and the highest-mileage cars are making the point hard to ignore. Richard Symons, who runs a used-EV dealership in southern England, has logged 247,000 miles on his five-year-old Tesla Model 3…Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:55:43 GMTTeslahyundaimodel-3nissanhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/02/model-y-long-wheelbase/https://evxl.co/2026/07/02/model-y-long-wheelbase/Tesla launched the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US and Puerto Rico today, a stretched, three-row, six-seat version of its best-seller with 325 miles of range and a 4.4-second 0-60 time. Tesla’s configurator lists it as the Model Y L Premium at $61,990, in Launch Series trim with all-wheel drive, sitting above the $57,990…Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:47:23 GMTTeslachinacybertruckmodel-3model-yhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/02/mcmurtry-speirling-pure-production-1-3-million-fan-car/https://evxl.co/2026/07/02/mcmurtry-speirling-pure-production-1-3-million-fan-car/McMurtry Automotive unveiled the production version of the Speirling Pure, its all-electric track-only fan car, with US customer deliveries beginning in late 2026 and a starting price of $1.3 million. The headline numbers read like a physics dare: 1,000 bhp (745 kW) per McMurtry’s spec sheet, 0-60 mph in 1.55 seconds with a one-foot rollout,…Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:20:51 GMTTeslahaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/02/rivian-q2-2026-deliveries-beat-guidance-raise/https://evxl.co/2026/07/02/rivian-q2-2026-deliveries-beat-guidance-raise/Rivian delivered 12,194 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, up about 14% from the 10,661 it delivered a year ago and comfortably ahead of the 10,518 analysts expected, according to estimates compiled by Visible Alpha. And Rivian paired the beat with a bigger statement: it raised its full-year 2026 delivery forecast from 62,000-67,000 to…Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:11:37 GMTRivianedvepar2teslahaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/02/tesla-q2-2026-deliveries-480126-beat/https://evxl.co/2026/07/02/tesla-q2-2026-deliveries-480126-beat/Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, up 25% from a year ago and its fourth-best delivery quarter ever. Wall Street expected 406,024. Tesla beat its own compiled analyst consensus by 74,102 vehicles, an 18% overshoot that nobody on the sell side saw coming. The company also produced 451,758 vehicles and deployed…Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:56:25 GMTBYDmodel-3model-yteslahaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/01/byd-retakes-ev-crown-tesla-q2-2026/https://evxl.co/2026/07/01/byd-retakes-ev-crown-tesla-q2-2026/BYD sold 557,090 fully electric vehicles in the second quarter, enough to take back the global BEV crown from Tesla a full day before Tesla reports its own numbers. Here is the part most coverage will skip: that winning figure is 8.22% lower than what BYD sold in the same quarter last year. Tesla publishes…Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:46:13 GMTBYDaustraliachinaeuropeli-autostellantisteslaxiaomixpenghaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/01/tesla-june-rebound-europe-subsidy-calendars/https://evxl.co/2026/07/01/tesla-june-rebound-europe-subsidy-calendars/Tesla registrations climbed across most of Europe’s big EV markets in June. France more than doubled from a year earlier, Sweden rose 56%, Portugal and Italy each gained 43%, Denmark added 39%, and Spain managed 5.6% growth. Norway went the other way and dropped 43%. The numbers land as Tesla prepares to publish second-quarter delivery…Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:07:58 GMTTeslabydchinaelon-muskeuropefrancegermanymodel-ynorwayswedenvolkswagenhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/07/01/tesla-semis-first-fatal-crash-kills-nevada-couple/https://evxl.co/2026/07/01/tesla-semis-first-fatal-crash-kills-nevada-couple/A Tesla Semi slammed into two passenger vehicles stopped at a red light on U.S. 50 in Dayton, Nevada, on Sunday morning, June 28, killing a married couple and leaving a third person with life-threatening injuries. Preliminary statements gathered at the scene suggest the truck driver may have fallen asleep, according to the Lyon County…Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:04:33 GMTTeslacaliforniaelon-musknevadanhtsahaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/30/bmw-ix5-range-charging-design-controversy/https://evxl.co/2026/06/30/bmw-ix5-range-charging-design-controversy/BMW unveiled the all-electric iX5 on June 30, 2026, alongside the rest of its fifth-generation X5 lineup at the company’s “Home of X” event at Plant Spartanburg, South Carolina. The iX5 60 xDrive will be the first fully electric BMW built in the United States, with production at Spartanburg starting later this year and customer…Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:18:55 GMTBMWepaeuropei3south-carolinaunited-statesvolvohaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/29/tesla-giga-nevada-battery-cargo-thefts/https://evxl.co/2026/06/29/tesla-giga-nevada-battery-cargo-thefts/Organized crews stole trailers of Tesla car and home batteries straight off loading docks at the company’s Nevada facilities at least 11 times since last December, according to Storey County sheriff’s records. Nine of those suspected cargo thefts happened in January alone. The hauls ran into the millions: two of the earliest trailers each carried…Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:29:45 GMTTeslaaustraliacalifornianevadahaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/26/geely-lotus-ev-canada-july-us-bans-polestar/https://evxl.co/2026/06/26/geely-lotus-ev-canada-july-us-bans-polestar/Geely will ship its first Lotus electric vehicles to Canada in July, with a delivery ceremony planned in Montreal, China’s ambassador to Canada Wang Di told Reuters on Friday, June 26. The Lotus Eletre SUVs are the first Chinese-owned and Chinese-built cars sold to Canadian buyers under the quota Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed with…Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:25:31 GMTLotusbydcanadacherychinamichiganmodel-3model-ypolestarsouth-carolinateslaunited-statesvolvohaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/26/tesla-model-y-tops-consumer-reports-for-reliability/https://evxl.co/2026/06/26/tesla-model-y-tops-consumer-reports-for-reliability/The Tesla Model Y is now the most reliable electric vehicle Consumer Reports tracks, the same outlet that named it the only pure EV on its 2026 Top Picks list. For a model that spent its first three years scoring in the 30s on CR’s reliability scale, that is a real turnaround, and it lines…Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:48:45 GMTTeslacybertruckeuropehyundaimodel-3model-ynhtsanissanhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/26/volkswagen-job-cuts-four-plant-closures-ev-bet/https://evxl.co/2026/06/26/volkswagen-job-cuts-four-plant-closures-ev-bet/Volkswagen is considering cutting as many as 100,000 jobs and closing four German factories, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, June 26, in what would be the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history. The plants on the list are Volkswagen‘s sites in Hanover, Zwickau and Emden, plus Audi‘s factory in…Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:40:50 GMTVolkswagenbmwbydcherychinaeuropemodel-yrivianslateteslaxpenghaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/25/polestar-exits-us-connected-vehicle-rule/https://evxl.co/2026/06/25/polestar-exits-us-connected-vehicle-rule/Polestar will stop selling new cars in the United States starting with the 2027 model year after the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security declined to grant it authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The Swedish brand announced the decision on Thursday, June 25. It is the first automaker pushed out of the American…Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:15:18 GMTPolestarcanadachinaeuropelotusmodel-ynikolarenaultroadstersouth-carolinateslaunited-statesvolvohaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/23/tesla-2026-free-supercharging-competition/https://evxl.co/2026/06/23/tesla-2026-free-supercharging-competition/Tesla will award nine drivers free Supercharging for life in its 2026 competition. The catch: scoring began January 1 and entry requires sharing your data.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:08:00 GMTTeslachinaeuropeicelandmodel-3saudi-arabiasupercharger-networkhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/23/supercapacitors-ev-charging-15-seconds-reality/https://evxl.co/2026/06/23/supercapacitors-ev-charging-15-seconds-reality/A headline making the rounds this week promises that supercapacitors could let electric cars charge in 15 seconds. The number is real. The application is not the one the framing implies. That 15-second figure comes from electric transit buses in Switzerland that sip small amounts of energy at fixed stops, not from any passenger EV…Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:11:00 GMTTeslabydchinalamborghiniswitzerlandhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/22/xiaomi-yu7-gt-autonomous-nurburgring-record/https://evxl.co/2026/06/22/xiaomi-yu7-gt-autonomous-nurburgring-record/A Xiaomi YU7 GT circled the Nürburgring Nordschleife with an empty driver’s seat and logged 10 minutes, 29.483 seconds, the first officially timed autonomous lap of the German circuit. Xiaomi set the run on June 8 and announced it on June 22, releasing onboard video that shows the steering wheel turning itself through the corners…Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:01:58 GMTXiaomibydchinagmmodel-yporschesoftware-updateunited-statesvideohaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/22/lucid-cuts-18-of-us-workforce-eliminates-coo-role/https://evxl.co/2026/06/22/lucid-cuts-18-of-us-workforce-eliminates-coo-role/Lucid Group cut roughly 18% of its U.S. workforce on Monday, its second mass layoff in four months, and eliminated the chief operating officer position. The move removes Marc Winterhoff, who ran Lucid as interim chief executive for more than a year. It is the first major operational decision from Silvio Napoli, the former Schindler…Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:37:37 GMTLucidarizonasaudi-arabiasechaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/17/porsche-2027-taycan-fake-gears-e-shift/https://evxl.co/2026/06/17/porsche-2027-taycan-fake-gears-e-shift/Porsche has given the 2027 Taycan simulated gear shifting, a feature its own development driver publicly dismissed less than two years ago. The system, called E-Shift, lets drivers row through eight virtual gears using paddles on the GT Sport steering wheel, with a virtual rev limiter and gear-specific drag torque tuned to mimic engine braking.…Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:42:23 GMTPorscheaustraliabydgermanyhyundaitaycanunited-stateshaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/17/rivian-r2-lease-prices-expired-federal-credit/https://evxl.co/2026/06/17/rivian-r2-lease-prices-expired-federal-credit/Rivian began handing the first R2 mid-size SUVs to customers on June 9, and within days the vehicle’s lease quotes, not its driving reviews, became the story. A 36-month lease on the R2 Performance lists at $829 a month on Rivian’s own configurator, and a lighter down payment pushes the figure past $1,000. EVXL reported…Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:25:42 GMTRivianepar1sr1tr2haye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/16/tesla-fsd-safety-data-senate-nhtsa-review/https://evxl.co/2026/06/16/tesla-fsd-safety-data-senate-nhtsa-review/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…Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:06:52 GMTTeslaautopilotelon-muskeuropenetherlandsnhtsahaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/16/dutch-minister-defends-tesla-fsd-rdw-approval/https://evxl.co/2026/06/16/dutch-minister-defends-tesla-fsd-rdw-approval/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…Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:01:09 GMTTeslaeuropenetherlandsswedenhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/15/byd-gods-eye-crash-liability-vs-tesla-fsd/https://evxl.co/2026/06/15/byd-gods-eye-crash-liability-vs-tesla-fsd/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…Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:39:11 GMTBYDautopilotbmwchinahyundaiteslaxpenghaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/15/tesla-fsd-misleading-safety-data-european-regulators/https://evxl.co/2026/06/15/tesla-fsd-misleading-safety-data-european-regulators/Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety stats that 10 of 11 researchers call misleading marketing.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:31:18 GMTTeslaautopilotbydelon-muskeuropegermanymichigannetherlandsswedenhaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)https://evxl.co/2026/06/15/kosmera-dreame-vacuum-spinoff-targets-3156-hp/https://evxl.co/2026/06/15/kosmera-dreame-vacuum-spinoff-targets-3156-hp/A Chinese vacuum-cleaner company now wants to build the most powerful electric car on the planet. Kosmera, the high-performance brand spun off from smart-home giant Dreame, has detailed a quad-motor powertrain targeting 2,320 kW, or 3,156 horsepower, for its upcoming Star Matrix and Star Razer grand tourers. The figure would put a first-year automaker above…Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:20:19 GMTBYDchinarimacroadsterteslahttps://evxl.co/2026/06/15/tesla-cybercab-epa-certification-front-wheel-drive-219-hp/https://evxl.co/2026/06/15/tesla-cybercab-epa-certification-front-wheel-drive-219-hp/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…Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:09:14 GMTTeslacaliforniacybercabepagigafactory-texasmodel-3nhtsatexashaye@evxl.co (Haye Kesteloo)