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Volkswagen just admitted what we’ve been reporting for years: German engineering can’t keep up with China’s EV pace. The automaker completed its €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion) test center in Hefei on Tuesday, claiming it can now slash development costs by up to 50% while accelerating timelines by 30%. This marks the first time in Volkswagen’s…
Plug-in hybrids have officially buried diesel in Europe’s powertrain hierarchy. For the first time in automotive history, PHEVs outsold diesel vehicles across the continent through October 2025, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. The milestone marks another grim chapter in diesel’s decade-long collapse, a downfall that began with Volkswagen’s emissions-cheat
Tesla claimed victory on European Full Self-Driving approval. The regulator in charge says that never happened and wants Tesla fans to stop flooding its customer service lines with thank-you messages. The public contradiction exposes an unconventional pressure campaign that one autonomous driving expert called “unheard of” in regulatory history. RDW Disputes Tesla’s February 2026 Promise…
Germany’s electric vehicle boom is built on a foundation of corporate accounting tricks, not genuine consumer demand. A German industry association warned Monday that nearly one in four newly registered EVs in 2025 were “self-registered” by manufacturers and dealers rather than sold to actual customers. The revelation exposes a troubling gap between official registration statistics…
BMW just proved its new iX3 electric SUV can travel farther on a single charge than most drivers will ever attempt in one day. A BMW team drove the 2026 iX3 over 1,000 kilometers (626 miles) from the automaker’s Debrecen, Hungary production facility to BMW Welt in Munich without stopping to charge, arriving with battery…
The Lotus Emeya has set a new benchmark for production electric vehicle charging performance, reaching a peak rate of 443 kW during independent testing conducted by Lotus Al Ghanim in Kuwait. Using Lotus’s proprietary 450 kW DC ultra-fast charger, the hyper-GT completed a 10-80% charge in just 13 minutes and 35 seconds, even under extreme…
Volkswagen and Rivian are exploring opportunities to license their jointly-developed electric vehicle platform to competing automakers, marking a strategic shift that could transform the $5.8 billion partnership from an exclusive collaboration into an industry-wide technology provider. The announcement came during a media event in Palo Alto on November 12 as the joint venture known as…
Tesla is internally testing Apple CarPlay integration after years of CEO Elon Musk dismissing the feature as unnecessary, Bloomberg reported today. The stunning reversal comes as the electric vehicle maker faces collapsing sales across global markets and increased pressure following the September 30, 2025 expiration of federal EV tax credits. The move represents a dramatic…
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