THE EV WORLD, CONNECTED.

Same strip, same morning, both packs near full. The Tesla got away first each time, then the Rivian R2 Performance caught it once the cars switched sides.

Electrifying's first drive finds a quiet, composed small Volkswagen with physical controls, a 441 litre boot and prices that reach £31,745 before the grant.

Gjeebs paid for his own robotaxi rides in Austin. The fare gap is the new detail, along with a car he says has no AC charger and a drop-off short of the destination.

He reports a screen too bright at night, a head-up display that never came on and loose trim on a $90,000 press car, and still says he wants one.

Larry is 98, has owned more than a hundred cars, and bought a Model Y for one reason: he no longer wants to check every intersection himself.

Two seats, no steering wheel, and no rear visibility at all. The Straight Pipes ride Tesla's robotaxi across Austin and spend most of the trip realising they have stopped watching the road.

LFP cells sold direct in China from around $63 per kilowatt hour, with a minimum order of three boxes. The order size is the part that changes who can buy.

The company loads a Slate truck and a trailer with an intern's belongings and drives to Indiana. A real load over a real distance, filmed by the people who build it.

Electrifying puts the new A2 at 4.32 metres against the original's 3.83, then catalogues the aerodynamic work behind the 0.24 figure. Up to 397 miles WLTP, from just over £32,000.

carwow's list of likes and dislikes, from a 16 amp household socket in the boot and a 1.6 tonne tow rating to heavy screen bezels and a frunk that will not swallow the charging cables.

Ziroth reads Panthalasa's patents and finds a self-filling pumped hydro plant with no anchor and no cable to shore. Rated at 50 kW, the prototype was shown producing 2.5 kW at about 44 percent conversion efficiency.

Two houses, 48 hours, no grid. The one with 30 kilowatt hours of storage never dropped below 40 percent. The one with 68 hit 16 percent overnight. Two Bit da Vinci says the difference was the heat pump.

Kyle Conner and Andreas ride Tesla's two-seat robotaxi on early access in Austin. The screen and the quiet impress them; the doors, the suspension and the total absence of rear visibility do not.

A steady 75 mph run on 20-inch wheels returned 222 watt hours per mile, which Dirty Tesla calculates as roughly 370 miles on a full pack against an advertised 320. Peak supercharging held at 251 kW.

CBS was given access to a Geely factory building Zeekr cars, where the manufacturing vice president says Chinese-built quality has passed the American-built equivalent. Canada's January deal lets 49,000 Chinese EVs in a year at 6 percent duty.

Travis Ketchum says he is averaging 2.76 miles per kilowatt hour against the 3.48 needed for the rated range, and that an intermittent HVAC rattle came back from service marked as operating as expected.

Autogefühl recorded 3.8 miles per kilowatt hour at 60 mph in the Changan-based CX-6e, for about 290 real miles. The seats and build quality impressed; the lane-keeping assist was switched off within minutes.

carwow measured 3.8 miles per kilowatt hour over 300-plus miles in the Volvo EX60, working out to about 350 real-world miles. Mat Watson calls it the best car in its class, with a list of small irritations.

The Fiat 500e Giorgio Armani is the shortest and lightest new car sold in the US, with a 42 kilowatt hour pack and 149 miles of range. Ever calls the value proposition indefensible and the car charming anyway.

542 brake horsepower, a 118.1 kilowatt hour usable pack and a claimed 330 real-world miles, from £154,070. What Car? says customers asked for a Range Rover that happens to be electric, and got exactly that.

Over an identical 184.4 miles, Gjeebs measured the Model Y at 262 watt hours per mile and the R2 at 356. Then the R2 recharged 10 to 80 percent faster than either of his Model Ys.

CATL's new sodium cell is reported at 175 watt hours per kilogram and about $51 per kilowatt hour at cell level. The argument has shifted from whether sodium works to which jobs it should take.

Rosie Barnes explains why the biggest structures we build are laid up by hand, arrive carrying dozens of repairs, and get fixed dangling from ropes 100 metres in the air. One repair she reports cost $3 million.

The Polestar 4 SUV is the coupé with the rear glass restored, a more upright roof and up to 130 litres more space. Autogefühl rates its build quality above the more expensive Polestar 3.

478 kW on boost, 18 minutes from 10 to 80 percent, and a virtual gear shift that manipulates regen as well as sound. The range, at about 340 real kilometres, is the part that bothers him.

Kim Java flew to Austin for day one of public Cyber Cab rides. Braille on the door latches, Unreal Engine driving the graphics, and a car that called its own support line mid-trip.

The BMW iX3 went furthest at a projected 423 miles, the Mercedes GLC came closest to its official figure, and the Tesla was cheapest to refill by a factor of three.

A Nairobi driver puts it in shillings: 300 for a full charge and 100 kilometres, against 221 a litre for about 60. Local assembly is starting, and Nairobi promises 10,000 charging points by 2030.

Jack Scarlett came back from a sabbatical in Japan having seen one new Leaf and a handful of electric kei cars. His explanation is more sympathetic than the usual verdict on Japanese carmakers.

About 140,000 EVs were registered in Thailand in seven months, and Thai PBS World says over 60 percent were imported, mostly from China at zero duty. Industry leaders want the excise gap widened.

Tom Moloughney ran the new Bolt at a constant 70 mph until it hit 1 percent and covered 243.1 miles, beating its EPA highway rating. He also found a speedometer that reads slow, which he says is a first.

A teaser for a camping kit built around the solar vehicle, published with no specifications, pricing or availability stated on camera. The idea fits the car; the details are not here yet.

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.