SEPTEMBER 2026 ARCHIVE.

Jacob picked a 2023 Ioniq 5 over a used Lexus on insurance cost, then lived with winter range, home charging and one failed charging unit.

UpsideDownFork looks at 800 W plug-in solar kits and a 4 kWh LFP battery system that, in Britain, still needs an installer for now.

Program director Dan Priestley tells Munro Live how shared thermal, motor and electronics parts underpin a plant built for 50,000 trucks a year.

The 2027 SUV drops to $129,900 before on-road costs and gains standard kit, as Chinese brands take a growing share of the market.

Autoline Daily covers joint battery plants in Europe, Chinese automaker consolidation, a flat US sales outlook and GM's reduced Bolt output.

Autogefühl drives a camouflaged all-wheel-drive successor to the ID.4 and ID.5, with 58 or 77 kWh packs and a rear-drive tip for buyers.

Electrifying walks through the new modular platform, a running mule and a design model, with batteries placed to keep the car low.

A V60 owner finds 130 more litres above the shelf and room for his very tall frame, but questions 200 kW charging on a 100 kWh pack.

Steady speed up a grade, strong regen and a centre driving seat, plus Tesla's program director on range, payload and payback.

Tom Moloughney, 600,000 EV miles in, on idle fees, holstered plugs and why the last 20 percent takes so long at a fast charger.

Tesla staff explain powder coat instead of paint, 1,000-weld battery structures and in-house axles at the Nevada truck plant.

DW Planet A weighs Vulcan's low-water, low-cost claims against a researcher's emissions range and a 2009 tremor linked to the site.

Benchmark's EV sales analyst credits European subsidies and Chinese exports, and expects a weaker US stretch ahead.

Cars Uncovered likes the equipment and the speed-limit cruise, not the road noise or the lane-change assist, then looks up the Chinese sticker.

A 319-mile Equinox, two charging stops that did not work out and a better one an exit away, plus the prep that kept it low stress.

Autogefühl drives a loaded i7 60 with a 112.5 kWh pack and 250 kW charging, then says the base car is enough.

Top Gear Tech finds physical switches, no passenger screen and 400 kW charging chosen over range in Bentley's first EV.

Savagegeese begins a year with a $123,000 Gravity on smaller wheels. The core functions that failed before now work, he says.

Two launch owners compare tire costs, hot-weather charging and sound. The 21-inch wheel has one tire option at about $475.

Andy Slye spends three nights in a $180,000 trailer that hitches itself, moves by remote control and charges an EV at camp.

Out of Spec drives Tesla's production Semi at its Nevada plant, then rides in one at about 65,000 lb. Tesla kept its regen and load figures to itself.

An independent German lab matched BYD's 10 to 70 percent charge in five minutes. The cell is still LFP; shorter cells did the work.

About Energy confirms an anode-free lithium metal cell above 500 Wh/kg. The trade-off is a working life of 100 to 200 cycles.

Slate's demo truck crossed from Texas to its Carson studio through 100-degree heat. The video offers mileage, not efficiency.

An R2 camper logged 10 percent lost overnight with the climate on, the same as his R1S. A power station did the heavy lifting.

Electrifying sees Renault's one-off 8 Gordini concept: two doors, a 270 hp rear motor, six round lamps and a tail light that vanishes when switched off.

Two Bit da Vinci visits Base Power, which installs a 39.2 kWh home battery in Texas for $695, keeps ownership and trades its power on the grid.

carwow adds what earlier Torcal videos did not: a 2,795 kg weight, a Porsche-built structure and hand assembly in a former Merlin engine plant.

CarGurus UK finds 281 hp, a limited-slip diff and a £33,000 post-grant price. The catch is range, which drops to around 120 miles when driven hard.

EV DIY rebuilds a £600 BMW Z3 around a Lexus hybrid motor. The drivetrain came in under £1,000. The paint and body kit cost far more.

Autogefühl gets an early look at Bentley's first EV, built on the Cayenne Electric's platform and battery. From £165,000, with 400 kW charging and no passenger screen.

Everyday Chris spends 24 hours in the Lightship AE1. The battery and solar kept up. The 50-gallon fresh tank fell to 25 percent and the gray tank filled.

TFLEV finds 375 hp, 4.4-second acceleration and 57 cubic feet of cargo space. Range is 260 miles on all-terrains, and the test car came to $50,888.

Slate's own video follows a truck west on a planned 670-mile day, with one-pedal driving and hand-cranked windows. Range and charging figures never appear.

Autotrader details the Bentley Dynamic Symphony, a lit grille tested with pebbles, and 821 to 888 hp. The price is expected to come in under £170,000.

Auto Focus finds a quiet, well-equipped hatchback with 300-plus miles of range, priced about $2,000 above the gas A6. Rear legroom is the catch.

In an hour with Fortune, GM's CEO blames regulation and slow charger rollout for the delay, and puts eyes-off Super Cruise on the Escalade IQ in 2028.

Electrifying gets an early look at the Twingo-based city car. It adds Gemini, face recognition and heated seats on both trims. No price yet.

Ever finds two-year-old A-Specs in the low $30,000s, with Lyriq-sized batteries and a long standard kit list. Charging is slow.

EVs & Beyond counts six electric models from Chery, Omoda, Lepas and iCaur at a Sydney show, most confirmed or expected for New Zealand.

Carwow finds a 1,330-litre boot and about 210 miles of motorway range. At £38,000 it undercuts an ID. Buzz, but leases for just £50 a month less.

Autogefühl rates the cabin above most premium cars and measures about 235 miles at motorway pace, but would switch off the lane keeping. From €25,000.

The shop proves both rear brake motors work and frees the wheels. The fault stays, and the host concludes only Rivian's software can clear it.

At 70 mph the Model Y L managed about 311 corrected miles. A year-old Model Y did 289, which the channel puts down to 7 to 8 percent capacity loss.

Autogefühl finds a quick, precise hot hatch on wet Scottish roads, with a stiff ride, cramped driving position and a price well above its rivals.

Autogefühl measured 19 kWh per 100 km at 100 km/h and 23 at 130 in Skoda's seven-seat flagship. The 86 kWh net pack covers 450 or 370 km.

Fortescue's CEO explains replacing nearly a billion litres of diesel a year with solar, batteries, 800 km of power lines and 6 MW truck chargers.

The series quotes 600 kW, 1.8 seconds to 100 km/h and 700 kW of regen, plus Brands Hatch, Zandvoort and a two-format race weekend.

Electrifying's podcast backs the BMW i5 over the plug-in hybrid, and one rapid charger shows how much the place you plug in changes the price.

Sun-Ways has 48 panels between the tracks near Buttes, Switzerland. The open question is cost, weighed against the farmland it could spare.

Top Gear Tech rides the production Semi and tours the Nevada plant: 1.7 kWh per mile, 325 or 500 miles, and an assembly line with no paint shop.

Autogefühl measured 16 kWh per 100 km at 100 km/h and 23 at 130. The 75 kWh pack is good for 470 km or 330 km depending on speed.

J.D. Power puts IONNA first, Mercedes second, Rivian third and Tesla fourth. Failed charging attempts are down to 12 percent.

Everyday Chris weighs his two Powerwalls against an Anker SOLIX E10 setup in a sponsored comparison. The generator that restarts itself is the difference.

CitizenCycle recorded 61 mph on GPS with the limiter removed. Out of the box the Grizzly is a class two bike until you sign a waiver.

carwow drove eight small EVs until they stopped. The Hyundai Inster went furthest at 212 miles, the Microlino last at 115, and the endings differed more than the distances.

Out of Spec ran a Lucid Gravity and a Model Y L down the Outer Banks. The Lucid wins on space, the Tesla stays their pick as a single car, and a ferry timetable stranded them.

Slate Auto films its truck moving a bison herd on an Oklahoma ranch. The chores get done and the video never mentions a price, a range or a payload.

Business Insider flies Beta Technologies' CX-300. The flight is the easy part: certification runs five to nine years and the addressable market is put at 0.2 percent.

In his last Everything Electric show, Dan Caesar ties Australia's EV surge to fuel costs and warns that lobbying already weakened the UK mandate.

Autogefühl's owners report six months with an X3 plug-in hybrid, including a grille replaced under warranty and a tailgate whistle BMW has not yet explained.

Gjeebs drove a petrol X3 2,000 miles to Austin and back, recording 32 mpg and arguing that used examples near $31,000 undercut a new RAV4.

Hagerty's Henry Catchpole calls the 321 horsepower Edition 50 the best GTI in 50 years, and puts the version worth buying near £50,000.

Tesla has set October 1 in Waco for the Roadster it first showed in 2017. Kim Java walks through the invitation, the tent footage and the unanswered price.

Travis Ketchum breaks down what a Rivian Adventure Network stop costs, and argues the awning and the open bathroom matter more than the cents.

Volkswagen moves its GTI badge to the facelifted ID.3, a car the video bills as the first rear-drive GTI. Autogefühl covers the numbers, the new cabin and the unfinished software.

BMW's own video explains how seven 700-bar tanks fit into the same space as BMW's Gen6 battery, and why one production line can build every X5 drivetrain.

Out of Spec Roaming pulled into every fuel station stop on the E6 north of Oslo to see how many had fast chargers. Nearly all of them did.

Just Have a Think tests the claim that India is building on solar the way China built on coal, and finds the power lines falling behind the panels.

Out of Spec Testing drove a Mach-E Rally until it quit. It covered 25.2 miles after its display read zero, but the host warns owners not to count on it.

Sky News watched three robots lift cars by their tyres and pack them into Gatwick's long-stay car park, tracking return flights so each car is waiting when its owner lands.

Autogefühl says the facelifted XC60 plug-in jumps from 15 to about 38 kWh net, adds roughly 360 kg, and costs around 10,000 euros more than the mild hybrid.

State of Charge ran two 0 to 100 percent sessions, one preconditioned and one not, and got near-identical results: 50 percent in 15 minutes, 80 in 28.

Engineer Rosie Barnes rode China's electric taxis, trucks and trains and argues the country's lead came from building infrastructure before demand existed.

PBS SoCal visits the San Gorgonio Pass and the Port of Long Beach, where a proposed yard would assemble floating turbines for California's deep coastal waters.

Autogefühl toured a prototype Kia PV7 with two battery sizes, 800 volt DC charging Kia says takes 20-plus minutes for a 10 to 80 percent top-up, and seating for up to eleven in Korean spec.

The Mission Efficiency concept reused ID Polo hardware to post a 0.158 drag coefficient Volkswagen calls a world record, then beat its own efficiency target on a drive from Wolfsburg to Vienna.

carwow found quicker acceleration and shorter braking than Volvo claims, alongside a touchscreen that locks out the mirrors in reverse and a key that needs its own charge.

Electrifying says the £24,950 Epiq beats the VW ID Polo and Renault 4 on cargo room, with bidirectional charging available on the range-topping trim.

UNSW's Sunswift Racing holds a Guinness World Record for 1,000 km on one charge and posts a 0.095 drag coefficient. A road-legal successor is due next year.

What Car? measured 132.9 miles of real range in the Twingo and 127.2 in the Honda Super-N, then declined to pick a winner until Renault confirms UK pricing.

Mazda's Changan-partnered CX-6e drops every physical control but the window switches. Electrifying rates the 200 kW charging above the 300 mile range claim.

MotorWeek clocked 4.5 seconds to 60 mph and 297 miles of range on its loop. Pricing opens at $39,840, with the federal credit no longer in the equation.

Everything Electric drove the production ID Polo and found physical climate buttons, two trim levels, and a group under pressure from Chinese competition.

Electrifying's podcast debates joint ventures and assembly lines, drives three Kia GT models in Norway, and picks an EV for a 25,000 mile commute.

carwow ran the new electric Cayenne Turbo against a Ferrari 296 GTS over the quarter mile. Ten seconds flat against 10.2, with a tonne of weight between them.

Modules keep getting cheaper while American installed prices sit near $3 a watt. Two Bit da Vinci traces where the rest of the money actually goes.

A 27.5 kWh battery, 82 horsepower and a promise of under £20,000. The measured range came in well short of the brochure figure.

The Energy Department is funding seven battery companies. CNBC asks whether American demand is steady enough for any of them to reach scale.

Six seats either way. Everyday Chris measures seven inches of access in one and 13 in the other, then asks which is the better used buy.

Edmunds put the longest-range car last and the Ioniq 5 first, with the Model Y and the R2 tied until a staff vote separated them.

A 53 kWh LFP pack rated at 237 miles WLTP, everything else standard, and a presenter who argues the smaller battery is the point.

LG and Seoul National University report 92.2 percent capacity after 883 cycles in a car-sized cell, with GM production targeted for 2028.

A 317 millivolt imbalance in one module ended this F-150 Lightning's original battery, and matching a single replacement module proved harder than buying a whole pack.

EVs & Beyond covered 431 km in a day in BYD's kei-class Racco at 11.1 kWh per 100 km, and found the limits were charging speed and the alarm.

Mike the Car Geek rides in a century-old EV with fourteen 6 volt batteries, rear-only brakes and a voltmeter for a fuel gauge, and traces the Detroit company that built it.

At MOVE 2026 the Rivian CEO expects R2 buyers to average about $50,000, targets Level 4 by 2028 and explains the software deal with Volkswagen.

Amber Electric says its Australian trial has 1,000 BYD battery warranties behind it, a waitlist above 8,500, and one owner reporting bills down by a third to a half.

Out of Spec BITS takes a Model Y L on a long coffee run. The car stopped at both windows by itself, then pulled away after the first drink.

Slate's Chicago tour stop hands the truck to people still deciding. One tests full-lock circles and a tight alley, another uses it to haul oversized coffee bags.

Autogefühl measured the big battery ID. Polo at 100 and 130 km/h, matched its Cupra Raval results, and found the seat wanting on long stints at 189 cm.

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.

The city runs about 2,500 municipal AC plugs and prices them so six hours attached to a charger costs less than six hours in an ordinary bay. The mechanism is the parking tariff, not the subsidy.

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.

Autogefühl walks the production A2 e-tron and confirms the MEB underpinnings shared with the VW ID.3, three battery sizes, a 0.24 drag coefficient and pricing from €38,000. The two LFP packs are the same physical battery.

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.