THE EV WORLD, CONNECTED.

Electrifying says a team member bought a Q4 Sportback under a year old for just over half its new price. Working out which Q4 you are looking at is the hard part.

Car Question took the Uncharted onto grass and sand to test X-Mode. The all wheel drive version makes 338 hp. The front wheel drive Subaru is the odd part.

A wet to dry Tokyo round ended behind a red flag with two laps left. Nyck de Vries won it, and Jake Dennis leaves Japan with the championship lead.

Out of Spec ran both cars at 50, 60, 70 and 80 mph plus a city loop on the same day. The R2 used roughly 18 to 26 percent more energy in every test.

A dead Lucid priced on a rumor, an Audi badge that hides the options, a Subaru with Toyota hardware, and an efficiency claim that fell apart in one afternoon. Today's stories all turn on who checks the number.

Autogefühl ran the new Cupra Raval, mechanical twin of the VW ID. Polo, through motorway efficiency tests. About 280 km at 130 km/h, and a chassis good enough to make you forgive it.

Misha Charoudin timed the charge, not the lap. The Ioniq 6 N came in at 22 percent after two laps of the Nordschleife and read 81 percent 21 minutes later.

UpsideDownFork walked the stands nobody makes a dedicated video about. Nearly all of them were selling the same thing: stackable plug-in solar storage you expand later.

Out of Spec charged an R2 for 15 minutes and drove it at 80 mph until empty. Excellent charging, 2.2 miles per kWh, and 92.8 miles on the board.

A 2.6 tonne Porsche out-braked a Ferrari, Hyundai timed a charge instead of a lap, and the R2 held 600 amps and still stopped at 92.8 miles. Today's stories all reward the number you can repeat.

The first pre-production Spéirling PURE is wider, mostly tyre, and built to run without a Formula 1 support crew. Max Chilton gets his first look at the production spec car.

IONNA CEO Seth Cutler tells Out of Spec Reviews the Circle K deal is landing months early, because the old sites were built with electrical headroom to spare. Eight are already live.

On Tailosive EV, the host argues R2 buyers weighing the LiDAR version should care more about Rivian's custom silicon than the sensor, and lines the wait up with the cheaper standard trim.

In a sponsored video, Everyday Chris explains the Anker SOLIX E10, a modular home battery that scales from 6 to 90 kWh. The figures are the manufacturer's, and we say so.

Rivian built structural headroom into the R2, IONNA is upgrading sites that were futureproofed years ago, and Anker sells a battery you expand later. Today's stories all reward the buyer who leaves room to grow.

The Commission's electrification action plan doubles the target and leaves it non binding. TLDR News EU walks through the investment plan, then the arithmetic that makes it unlikely.

A 2019 Model 3 with 170,000 miles gains reversing, parking and the v14 driving character. The channel says the confidence is transformed and the phantom braking is not.

Gjeebs drove Arizona to Pennsylvania with two toddlers and logged every stop. 284 watt hours per mile, 6 hours 40 minutes plugged in, and one reason he left the Rivian at home.

Everything Electric CARS reports 5 miles per kilowatt hour on the motorway and around 200 kg less than a Renault Twingo. Claimed range is 128 miles, and that is the whole debate.

The EU's own numbers show efficiency making its electrification target harder to hit. Honda built a kei car that doubles the usual miles per kilowatt hour. Today's stories all argue about the same variable from different ends.

The R2 pack is the cabin floor, the seat mount and part of the crash structure. Rivian's engineers walk Munro Live through what that bought and what it cost.

Joel Jean counts tooth fairies: one magic step is solvable, three means wait. He uses it to explain why perovskite tandems are close and still years out.

There is no gearbox in an EV, so Ferrari built paddles that shift torque instead. Its fifth Luce film explains the reasoning, including where the sound comes from.

Foreign Correspondent returns to Beijing after five years. Half of new cars sold are electric, a NIO plant builds one a minute, and a battery swap takes four minutes.

Rivian cut half the cost out of the R2's chassis structures and expects nobody to notice. Lexus left the rear seat cold at eighty thousand dollars and reviewers noticed in minutes. Today's stories are all arguments about what an engineer is allowed to remove.

Out of Spec Reviews ordered a 450 amp inverter for their Renault Twizy, then found one already fitted. The tune still cut 0 to 28 mph from 8.1 seconds to 4.9.

KPIX visits Hickman, California, where more than 700 panels over a 110 foot canal produce about 800 kilowatts. UC Merced is still working out whether the economics hold up.

Fifteen minutes took the iX3 from 10 to 65 percent, peaking at 401 kW. It then ran 238 km at 120 km/h before dropping back to 10 percent.

XPENG's own footage shows journalists riding through Munich traffic hands off. The hardware looks ready. Forbes reports European approval is unlikely before 2027.

Michael Dunne says China's lead was bought decades ago, in materials and state credit. Today's other four stories are an inventory of what everyone else still holds: charging speed, software, infrastructure already in the ground, and one tuned Twizy.

ABC correspondent Allison Horn reports from Beijing on battery swaps in minutes, the world's largest charging network, and a flying car the report says goes on sale by year's end.

Jay Leno drives the 544hp Polestar 4 Arctic Circle, a rally build with raised suspension, Brembo brakes, and a hydraulic handbrake made for sliding on dirt and ice.

euronews visits Agri-PV projects in Bavaria, where solar panels sit over farmland so growers get crops and electricity from the same field. One startup is in talks with 800 farmers.

BBC News rides a driverless robotaxi in Beijing and reports how China's cheap EV supply chain is making lidar affordable enough to push autonomous driving at home and abroad.

Two of today's stories are cars built to be thrown sideways for fun. Three are about making the car quiet, cheap, and eventually invisible. The EV is becoming a toy and a utility at once.

Electrifying's Nicola Hume expected to shrug at Geely's cheap EX2 and instead liked it. A roomy 214-mile city car with a warranty that outlasts most rivals, priced from about 21,000 pounds.

Autogefühl's Thomas walks the production VW ID Cross, the electric T-Cross. T-Roc space in a T-Cross footprint, a 475-litre boot, real buttons, and pricing from about 28,000 euros.

Gjeebs reviews a used Audi RS e-tron GT that stickered near $147,000 and now trades around $100,000 less. A lot of car for the money, with the running costs of a used German performer.

The Electric Viking runs the numbers: GM's electric pickups are selling slowly, and dealers are cutting up to $21,400 off the Silverado EV. Good trucks, awkward styling, real discounts.

China and Europe engineer cheap EVs from the start. In the US, cheap means a depreciated Audi and discounted trucks nobody is buying. Two ideas of affordability in one day.

A tiny 10.2 kWh battery, a 660 kg body, and a roof panel that extends to add real range in the sun. Not for everyone, but a smart answer to short trips in a hot climate.

The R2 draws over 600 amps, and an older Tesla-branded adapter melted mid session. Why high-amperage EVs are exposing pre-standard adapters, and what to buy instead.

The 800V iX3 hits its claimed 400 kW peak and does 10 to 80 percent in 21 minutes, with a dense battery that touches 59C and cools off fast once driving resumes.

The 2026 bZ starts below the old bZ4X yet adds range, faster charging, and a native Supercharger plug. In Ever's test it ran 10 to 80 percent in 26 minutes.

Rivian and BMW push more compute, voltage and power until an adapter melts. A $8,000 solar car and a cheaper Toyota go the other way. Two ideas of progress in one day.

From under 1% to more than 30% in seven years. CNBC credits technology and a big price gap, but the UK's decision to skip tariffs is doing quiet work too.

Lovely hardware, tiny space, and a 234 mile rating that runs the trip. Three days in a camper converted ID Buzz says weekend yes, full time maybe a week.

Polestar is clearing stock before a 2027 US ban. Lucid is stacking 0% financing on the Gravity. One is regulation, one is soft demand, and both end at a lower sticker.

255 miles at a true 70 mph against a 273 mile rating, about 18 short. The GT is the wrong trim to judge the car by, and 150 kW charging is the real asterisk.

A six figure Porsche, a bargain Subaru, discounted Polestars, and Chinese EVs undercutting a whole country. The value of an EV is being renegotiated in every direction at once.

Steel wheels, a Federal Signal light bar and a custom bed rack are the easy part. The interesting bit is the 12 volt box someone had to invent to make the siren work.

On one Santa Rosa project, adding batteries is worth about three times more than adding solar. Alex Shoer explains what changed, and why the cells were never the problem.

A 475 litre boot, 271 miles from the big battery, and window switches you can actually press. VW's small electric SUV lands the same week XPENG undercuts it.

A 118 kWh battery, around 542 horsepower, and still a prototype with no price. Electrifying drives it at Goodwood and asks what four years of waiting actually bought.

XPENG needed months, JLR needed four years, and a Rivian needed an aftermarket box to power a siren. The cells were never the holdup.

NHK reports on black mass holding ten times the rare metal of mined ore, and on why roughly 80 percent of Japan's used EVs leave the country anyway.

Out of Spec finds no track mode, a new Panasonic pack, early thermal limiting, and a launch control that made the car slower than simply flooring it.

SMMT figures cited in the video put new battery EVs at 516,490 against 54,110 new petrol cars in the 12 months to May 2026, with petrol hybrids flat.

$25,000 off a $56,400 car takes a 544 horsepower crossover to about $31,000, tied to what the video says is Polestar's planned US exit by 2027.

The Bolt got to $29,000 by design and the Polestar 4 got to $31,000 by retreat. Same price, opposite stories, and only one of them is repeatable.

A 2024 paper modelled off-grid solar against utility rates in 18 US locations. Only four beat the grid, and the deciding number is 25 cents per kilowatt hour.

Bloomberg reports Lucid engaged AlixPartners. Lucid confirms the hire, says it is about strengthening operations, and says bankruptcy has not been put to the board.

Over 30 MWh per unit, 15,000 cycles, no lithium, no cobalt, no nickel. Two Bit da Vinci on CATL's sodium bet, and the awkward part about the price.

Out of Spec BITS drives the 2026 Kia EV4 GT-Line Limited in Canada: 400-volt E-GMP, up to 81.4 kWh, a factory J3400 port, and no US launch on the calendar.

Lucid has the better powertrain and the worse problem, CATL is walking away from its own best chemistry, and a study says home solar only pays where power is expensive.

TFLEV drives the 480 hp Mach-E Rally, a lifted, snow-tire-equipped EV that is fun to drive but charges extra for the frunk and still runs CCS.

A CNBC explainer on how tariffs pushed Chinese automakers to build factories worldwide, citing Atlas Public Policy, Rhodium Group, and other analysts.

Gjeebs charge-tests the 800-volt Ioniq 9, a six-seat electric SUV with native NACS clocked from 10 to 80 percent in about 23 minutes.

NPR reports that salvage yards get stuck with EV batteries nobody wants, why cheaper LFP chemistry makes it worse, and how a new Colorado law responds.

Today's five stories run the whole length of an EV's life, and the ones that will matter next year were about the plant, the plug, and the scrapyard, not the badge.

Everything Electric APAC drives the Astraux AL7 Pro, a two-seat electric microcar bound for Europe with air conditioning, 90 km/h, and range that beats the Citroen Ami.

Vertical Aerospace chief engineer David King explains how better batteries made the Bristol company's Valo electric vertical-takeoff aircraft possible.

NHK reports Shizuoka's governor approved the Chuo Shinkansen maglev's local section, clearing the last hurdle for the 500 km/h Tokyo to Nagoya line.

Out of Spec BITS compares the 2026 Volvo EX30 Cross Country and Subaru Uncharted AWD, two small electric crossovers built for the same buyer, two different ways.

Five stories, two speeds: off-lease used EVs, an $8,000 microcar, and $40k crossovers are moving now, while the maglev and the air taxi keep slipping right.

Electrifying's first look at Ferrari's first fully electric car and first four-door five-seater, with 1,050 hp, a 122 kWh battery, and a design led by Jony Ive.

Onboard from Goodwood shows Dan Ticktum in the four-wheel-drive GEN4, a car the commentary calls more capable than anything the series has built before.

NHK reports on a Niigata pilot where PXP's thin, flexible next-generation cells are tested on walls and roofs in a region long considered too snowy for solar.

Out of Spec Motoring runs one of the first Model S cars built against a current Model Y, and the decade-long gap in efficiency and charging speed is the whole story.

Five stories, one pattern: solar, batteries, and EVs keep getting cheaper and better, while politics, taste, and geography are what actually slow them down.

Tailosive EV's Aptera video is a comedy bit wrapped around a real look at solar charging, a yoke, camera mirrors, and a shape that stops traffic.

Driven+ set a 2026 Ioniq 6 N against a 650 hp Lichfield-tuned GT-R. The EV won by six hundredths, 50.01 to 50.07, and the margin says a lot.

Electrifying's early look at Denza's 1,366 hp coupe pairs a small 76 kWh battery with BYD fast-charging claims the video puts at up to 1,500 kW.

Out of Spec Roaming's in-depth tour of the 646 hp Zeekr 7 GT Privilege AWD covers a 100 kWh pack, 16-minute charging, and where the tech impresses or annoys.

Five stories, from a $25,000 crank-window truck to a 1,366 hp Chinese sports car. The battery is now the least interesting thing they share.

Reservation holders are fixated on a lidar sensor. Travis Ketchum argues the autonomy computer nobody can see is the part that decides how the car ages.

Fernando Barrichello took Jaguar TCS Racing's Gen4 challenger up the Goodwood hill on Thursday, the first proper public look at the car that reshapes Formula E.

Out of Spec walks a 2026 Macan GTS window sticker line by line. Wheels at $3,010, stitching at $3,710, and a headrest crest at $390. The math is the review.

A June 28 crash near Reno is the first fatal incident involving a Tesla Semi. The podcast reports two deaths, a seized truck, and no answers on what was active.

Five stories, one thread: a $24,950 truck with no screen, a $3,710 stitching option, and a chip nobody can point at. What buyers pay for keeps moving out of sight.

Car and Driver reports the tiny Fiat is now on sale at $14,985, with 8 horsepower and 46 miles of range. It cannot legally use a public road until a free kit ships this fall.

An R1T and R1S owner drives the performance R2 and answers what buyers keep asking. Great packaging, sharper handling, a flimsy charge port door and laggy steering wheel dials.

Germany has had it for years, Australia bans it, and the UK is about to legalize it with an 800 watt cap. Artisan Electrics asks four countries what happens after the rules change.

Three sessions, two chargers, one 460 amp ceiling. The advertised 450 kW peak never arrived, but 10 to 80 percent came in under 12 minutes against a claimed 13.

Five stories, one thread: an 8-horsepower Fiat, a 450 kW charging claim that never arrives, and an 800 watt solar cap. The headline spec keeps losing to the lived one.

Google built-in navigation and one-pedal driving age well. The battery-hump rear seat and scratch-prone piano black do not. A used buyer's look.

The new CLA claims a 484-mile WLTP figure and a European Car of the Year win. The hardware convinces. Whether the cabin feels like a Merc is the open question.

At a former coal plant near Nantes, Tesla's Autobidder software bids Megapack capacity into wholesale and grid-service markets. A look at the trading layer.

A Flux Marine-powered Scout goes full throttle from full to empty on one lake. The thermal system holds. The range and charging math is the honest catch.

Five stories, one thread: a turbine, a used EV, a new Merc, a grid battery, and a boat all get judged on the system around them, not the headline number.

State Of Charge runs what it calls the first independent 10 to 80 percent test on the R2 and beats Rivian's own claim by two minutes.

A walk through Aptera's California line, from Italian-molded body panels to the marriage station, on a solar EV built entirely around efficiency.

Two reports say solar outgrew every other power source in 2025, and renewables met all the new electricity demand, led by China and India.

The Electric Viking argues GM's swollen 2027 Bolt inventory is not a flop but a deliberate bridge before the automaker retools for its next EVs.

Five stories, one thread: from a 12k Dacia to a Ferrari that only sold out once it got cheaper, today's EV news turns on price, not the spec sheet.

US orders open for the three-row Model Y L, Tesla reports its best-ever second quarter, and decompiled code hints at facial verification for Full Self-Driving.

Everyday Chris lives with the Model Y Performance and weighs the 8,000 dollar premium over a standard Model Y on driving, tire wear, and running costs.

Gjeebs drives the new Bolt, an entry EV with a native NACS port and a 262 mile LFP battery, then runs a Supercharger charge test to see where it lands.

A new Chinese standard adds a two-hour no-ignition window after thermal runaway, and Chery answers with a lifetime battery guarantee across its brands.

Five stories, one thread: from a 28,000 dollar hatch to a six-figure boat, today's EVs win or lose on whether they fit your life, not the spec sheet.

A Core Memory Podcast tour of Tesla's Semi plant near Reno shows a factory built for 50,000 electric trucks a year, with the lines being switched on.

Andy Didorosi is building a twin-motor, Tesla-powered Kei truck as the halo for Mutiny, his new Detroit company, with a cheap open-source truck meant to follow.

EddieX gets up close with the Scout Traveler Spirit of 26, and the range-extending Harvester keeps stealing the show from the pure electric version.

The Electric Viking reports Polestar will stop selling new cars in the US after the current model year, citing a rule on Chinese-linked connected-vehicle tech.

Five stories, one question: in 2026, where an EV is built and who owns the maker are starting to matter as much as how good the car is.

Engineering Explained walks through the Rivian R2's range, 29-minute charging, battery cells, and door handles, and where Rivian cut to reach about 60,000 dollars.

Pascal Wehrlein beats championship leader Mitch Evans to pole for Round 12 in Shanghai, cutting his title deficit to 24 points.

Ever names four used EVs worth buying under $25,000: the Mustang Mach-E, Ioniq 5, Tesla Model 3, and Polestar 2, with the reliability catch for each.

Edmunds compares a RAV4 plug-in and a Toyota bZ EV of similar size and price, and finds the right answer depends on your driveway, not the cars.

The day's stories split between spectacle at the top of the market and arithmetic at the bottom. The cars that win headlines and the cars people buy are drifting apart.

Yes, it is a plug-in hybrid with a 1.4 kWh battery. There is an electric motor though, so we are counting it. Auto Focus drives McLaren's 1,200 horsepower W1.

State of Charge runs what Tom Moloughney calls the first independent R2 highway range test: 259 miles on all-terrain tires over a rough Colorado loop.

KUTV 2 News reports Utah was first to legalize plug-in solar as a plug-and-play appliance, but a missing UL safety standard is keeping products off shelves.

Out of Spec digs through Tesla's spec sheet for the stretched three-row Model Y L: six seats, 325 miles, and a launch price near 63,000 dollars.

The day's stories split along one line: the peak numbers that make headlines, and the quieter economics and scale that actually decide what wins.

Everything Electric APAC walks around XPENG's coupe styled electric SUV, expected under 25,000 dollars and aimed at buyers well beyond China.

Artisan Electrics tours Munich's big solar show, where Aiko showed a 500 watt standard size panel and rivals are chasing the same mark.

Everything Electric CARS drives XPENG's range extender MPV, which pairs a 63 kWh battery with a small petrol generator for long trips.

On The Vergecast, editor Andy Hawkins and host David Pierce weigh whether Rivian's cheaper R2 can carry the company into the mainstream.

Today's stories split over one question: is fast charging finally solved, or are the smartest bets still built to route around it?

Out of Spec Reviews gets an early look at the electric iX5, which BMW says pairs a 144 kWh battery with 460 kW charging and a starting price of $79,800.

The Waveform crew digs into Slate's stripped-down electric pickup, a roughly $25,000 truck that charges extra for basics like speakers, as the company says production is close.

Gjeebs reviews a $65,485 Mach-E California Special and logs a slow 10 to 80 percent charge in extreme heat, a result the host suspects was not typical.

Reuters covers Shell's Triple 10 concept, which the company says charges 10 to 80 percent in under 10 minutes using an immersion-cooled battery and a single cooling circuit.

Today's stories split between making the battery bigger and making it work harder, with the premium set caught in between.

The autonomy debate is all horse race. But for millions of people who cannot drive, a car that drives itself is the keys, handed back. Why Rivian's road to Level 4 matters more than the spec sheet, and the one thing it still has to get right.

Reviewers drive everything and rarely want to own what they test. With the Rivian R2, several of them said they would, and a few put their own money down. Why that is the signal that matters more than any spec sheet.

People were reading website source code to find out when their Rivian was coming. Forum signatures listed Guide contact dates like military service records. We are not doing that again for the R2. The Rivian R2 Delivery Tracker is live.

RJ Scaringe earned $403 million in 2025 while Rivian lost $3.6 billion. That contradiction deserves to be looked at honestly. So does the case for why the board wrote the check anyway.

Everyone knows EVs cost less to maintain. Almost no one has run the full ledger. Oil changes, brake jobs, transmission flushes, spark plugs. Line by line, over 100,000 miles, with real prices from Kelley Blue Book, AAA, Consumer Reports, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The result is not what most people expect.

The founder of nexusEVnews on why he reads 30+ sources every morning, how he decides what makes the cut, and the channels and creators actually worth your time in 2026.

Every gas car comes with a decades-long CO₂ commitment that never appears on a window sticker. A full cradle-to-scrapyard accounting for both vehicles, and where one permanently outpaces the other.

The Lightship AE1 carries its own 69 kWh battery and 80 kW motor to neutralize trailer drag on the tow vehicle. Paired with a Rivian, the real-world efficiency numbers are hard to argue with. This is what all-electric glamping looks like when the hardware actually works.

Rivian is building a 300,000-unit plant outside Atlanta. Their spinoff ALSO makes electric cargo quads. Uber has a deal for autonomous R2s. A hypothetical about what it would look like if someone connected the pieces.

Before Rivian's IPO in 2021, RJ Scaringe set aside one percent of the company's equity and told a room full of investors that the natural world would be a stakeholder in their success. Not a charity. A stakeholder. Here is what that has actually come to mean.

About 80 percent of the fuel you put in your gas tank never actually moves the car. It turns into heat. This piece walks through exactly where that energy goes, what it costs you over a full year, and why the "but EVs run on coal" argument is shakier than people think. The same principle the featured video unpacks at a global scale, playing out in your driveway.

The viral videos are real. The math behind them is not. A data-driven comparison of EV vs. ICE vehicle fire rates across the U.S., Sweden, Norway, Poland, and Australia, plus the legitimate counterarguments every honest analysis has to include.

Everyone says EVs take too long to charge. Almost no one has done the annual math. Run the numbers yourself and the objection gets a lot less convincing.

A former R1T owner makes the case that the Rivian R2 is the most compelling new EV in three years and the moment Rivian has been building toward since day one.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that roughly 80% of EV charging happens at home, yet 44 million American households are renters. Jacob Hunka on why this is one of the most solvable problems in the energy transition, and the states already proving it.