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Here are the EVs I’d Get If Gas Prices Kept Going Up As Someone Who Sorta Hates EVs

By Olivia Richman — Sep 16, 2026

Tesla Fans are Mind-Blown About Tesla Insurance’s New FSD Discount, But It’s Not Even That Great Compared to Competitors. And Should We Really Be Promoting 95% FSD Usage?

By Olivia Richman — Sep 15, 2026

The United States Already Can’t Have Any Cool EVs From China, Now We Can’t Get Polestar’s New Lineup. After Seeing the Formula 2030 Concept Car, You May Cry Yourself to Work Inside Your Tesla

By Olivia Richman — Sep 9, 2026

The Internet Says Cybertruck Owners Are Being Told Their Trucks Are Worthless. Two of the Videos Look Like Dealership Skits, and the Real Number Is Ordinary

By Olivia Richman — Sep 7, 2026

The Electric Range Rover Reacts to a Slipping Wheel in 50 Milliseconds. That’s 100 Times Quicker Than the Gas One, and It’s Why This Might Be the Better Off-Roader

By Olivia Richman — Sep 2, 2026

27,185 Lucid Air sedans got recalled on Friday because a headlight circuit can pull too much current and cook its own wiring, 33 owners have already reported damaged harnesses, and the software fix went out over the air before the recall did

By Olivia Richman — Aug 29, 2026

A man whose own bio calls him a Tesla ambassador ordered a robotaxi for a 2.3-mile trip, got quoted an hour and six minutes, watched the estimate drop to 16 and jump back to 57, was told support could not reroute the car, and got out and called an Uber

By Olivia Richman — Aug 24, 2026

Geely is not selling Detroit a Chinese EV. It is selling China Speed: 800 engineers, AI and modular factories that cut development time and costs in half — Ford’s CEO called the cars devastating, and Ford is already using the kit in Spain

By Olivia Richman — Aug 21, 2026

I just built a Ford Fathom (sort of). Here’s what it taught me about the upcoming electric truck

By Dave McQuilling — Aug 19, 2026

Most electric SUVs stop pulling right after 60 mph, and this 4,900-pound one kept going all the way to a 128.1 mph trap speed at the quarter mile, six clear of a Model Y Performance and level with a Porsche 911 GTS

By Olivia Richman — Aug 8, 2026

Lucid just showed the first real images of the Cosmos, a $50,000 electric SUV that pulls about 300 miles from a 69 kWh pack, and the pictures arrived inside the same update that quietly moved it a full year further away

By Olivia Richman — Aug 6, 2026

While one American company runs half a million driverless rides a week using cameras, lidar and radar together, the other has logged 14 crashes in about 800,000 miles of robotaxi service with a paid human sitting in the front seat

By Olivia Richman — Aug 5, 2026

US regulators just opened the process to force an obvious emergency door release into every new car, warning that a hidden handle can mean severe injury or death, while clearing Tesla of the probe that helped start it all

By Olivia Richman — Jul 26, 2026

California just launched an instant $3,500 discount for first-time EV buyers, no application, no income cap, off the price before you drive away — and the $50,000 vehicle cap is waived entirely for automakers headquartered in the state, which hands Rivian and Lucid a golden ticket

By Olivia Richman — Jul 14, 2026

America yearns for small, cute, affordable EVs and the MG GO! is exactly that — a friendly electric hatch previewing a 2027 production car that will fight the Renault 5 everywhere except the one market starving for it

By Olivia Richman — Jul 13, 2026

The Fiat Topolino is finally in the United States, but there’s a catch: You can’t drive it

By Olivia Richman — Jul 8, 2026

The Slate Truck starts at $24,950 with no crank windows and barely anything else, but check every box and it hits $46,294, so I built the cheapest version you could actually live with and commute in

By Olivia Richman — Jul 8, 2026

The US government just showed Polestar the door, so a 544-horsepower Swedish luxury crossover now sells for $39,300 and the single-motor version for less than a mid-trim Camry, cash discounts up to $25,000 that vanish July 31

By Olivia Richman — Jul 6, 2026

Everyone calls the Ferrari Luce an ugly Nissan Leaf knockoff, one collector emailed Ferrari back to call it an “abomination” he’d be caught dead driving, and yet all 88 units for China just sold out before the Beijing launch, even though BYD’s supercar costs half as much and is faster

By Olivia Richman — Jun 30, 2026

Slate reveals JUST how bare bones its trucks will be in order to be under $25K, including crank windows and no paint. At least Americans can finally afford an EV pickup

By Olivia Richman — Jun 27, 2026

Polestar has just been essentially kicked from the United States car market, but it doesn’t really care. Only 6% of its sales in 2026 were in the U.S.

By Olivia Richman — Jun 25, 2026

Lucid sold 55% more cars in 2025 and still lost $2.7 billion, so the American EV maker is cutting 18% of its U.S. workforce for the second time this year and betting its survival on a cheaper $50,000 SUV

By Olivia Richman — Jun 23, 2026

Ford finally showed off its $30,000 electric pickup after months of dribbling out tiny details, and the big reveal is that it looks like a plain, boxy truck, which is exactly what Americans have been asking for

By Olivia Richman — Jun 20, 2026

Nissan just built a peppy little hybrid crossover that gets more torque than the US version and costs just $18,700, and American buyers desperate for a cheap car can’t have it, because it’s only sold in Japan

By Olivia Richman — Jun 20, 2026

Rivian’s own CEO says the threat to its make-or-break R2 isn’t price or sales, it’s service: owners have waited up to 50 days for an appointment, and one says he’s been stuck over a year waiting for a key fob

By Olivia Richman — Jun 16, 2026

The biggest fear about going electric is the day the battery dies and you’re staring at a $16,000 bill. Run the 20-year numbers against what you’d burn in gas, and that fear looks very different

By Dave McQuilling — Jun 16, 2026

BMW just revealed its electric M3 concept and the whole car press loves it. To me it looks like Lightning McQueen with the personality removed, the same blank-slate styling every automaker now calls “the future”

By Olivia Richman — Jun 15, 2026

Drivers in China are using plastic doll heads to trick Tesla’s cabin camera into thinking someone’s watching the road, one of them a tiny Dwayne Johnson, so Full Self-Driving runs while nobody pays attention

By Olivia Richman — Jun 15, 2026

I took a Rivian R2 up a Utah mountain to see if the cheap electric SUV could actually off-road. It got to the summit, but the open diff made me back up and rethink more than once

By Dave McQuilling — Jun 14, 2026

While Ford and Slate load up cheap electric pickups, Rivian’s CEO just shrugged and invited them in: “I so deeply believe we need more choice,” and the mid-$30,000 R3 comes before anything else

By Olivia Richman — Jun 11, 2026

Rivian killed almost every button in the R2 and replaced them with two metal dials on the steering wheel. We drove it, and there’s not going to be a middle ground on this one

By Dave McQuilling — Jun 10, 2026

Everyone assumes solid-state batteries will land in your car first. A Chinese flying-car maker just started production betting the opposite — the chemistry reaches the sky before the road

By Luis Reyes — Jun 8, 2026

Your parked EV holds enough power to run your home for days. A US program testing whether you can sell that back found the real wall isn’t the grid — it’s a $30,000 charger and a solar rule that fights it

By Luis Reyes — Jun 6, 2026

The biggest electric vehicle ever built isn’t a Tesla and has no wheels — it’s a 130-meter ferry with 5,016 batteries, and a giant heavy-lift ship is hauling it from Tasmania to South America

By Luis Reyes — Jun 6, 2026

Instead of Building More Chargers, Detroit Buried One Under the Street — a Quarter-Mile of Copper Coils That Push Power Into a Moving Car With No Plug, No Cable, and No Stopping

By Luis Reyes — Jun 4, 2026

Mercedes-AMG Killed the V8 in Its Muscle Car and Watched Buyers Walk. Our Exclusive Shots of the Final CLE Prototypes Show the Fix: the 63 Gets Its V8 Back, and the 53 Keeps Its Six

By Luis Reyes — Jun 4, 2026

While the Whole Industry Keeps Swearing Solid-State Batteries Are Just Around the Corner, the World’s Biggest Battery Maker Quietly Bet on Something Sitting in Your Kitchen Salt Shaker Instead

By Luis Reyes — Jun 2, 2026

The CEO of Lotus Bet the Brand’s Future on Electric Sports Cars and Couldn’t Understand Why His Customers Hated the Idea. Then He Got in a Racecar for the First Time and Finally Felt What They Meant

By Olivia Richman — May 30, 2026

For Decades the Royal Air Force Ran Its Bases on Diesel Generators. It Just Signed a Contract to Replace Them With Transportable Hydrogen Microgrids That Charge Electric Cars Anywhere, Off the Grid

By Luis Reyes — May 29, 2026

A Chinese Lab Just Claimed a Lithium-Metal Battery With Double the Energy Density and a 3-Minute Charge. If the Numbers Hold, the Lithium-Ion Era Is Over

By Luis Reyes — May 29, 2026

Rivian’s $45,000 Tesla Model Y Killer Finally Has a Launch Date. But the Only Version You Can Buy on June 9th Costs a Lot More — and the Affordable One Is Still Two Years Away

By Olivia Richman — May 29, 2026

A Lamborghini Can’t Sound Like a Lamborghini Without an Engine. That’s the Whole Reason It Killed Its Electric Supercar — and the Reason Ferrari’s Just Flopped

By Olivia Richman — May 28, 2026

An Australian Mining Company With a Lithium Project in Ontario Just Matched a Battery Chemistry Toyota and Samsung Spent Years On — Without the Toxic Gas

By Luis Reyes — May 28, 2026

Never Thought I’d Say This, But the Tesla Model S Plaid is a Good Choice (Against the Ferrari Luce, Specifically)

By Olivia Richman — May 28, 2026

Ferrari Stock Dropped 5 Percent in One Morning After Critics Compared the New $650,000 Luce EV to a Nissan Leaf. The Former Chairman Said It’s the One Car China Won’t Copy

By Olivia Richman — May 27, 2026

The U.S. Government Wants EV Owners to Pay $250 a Year for Road Damage. A British Trial Just Found a Graphene Asphalt That Lasts 165 Percent Longer Than Conventional Pavement

By Luis Reyes — May 27, 2026

Until This Year, Almost Every Gram of the Heavy Rare Earth That Keeps a Cadillac Lyriq’s Motor From Demagnetizing Was Processed in China. A Canadian Mining Company Just Started Producing It in Virginia

By Luis Reyes — May 27, 2026

Tesla Just Made Its First Concrete Statement About the Second-Generation Roadster in Nine Years. The Statement Is That They’ve Started Planning the Production Layout

By Olivia Richman — May 26, 2026

The Toyota Mirai Is Stuck in the Driveway. The U.S. Army’s Hydrogen Chevy Colorado Has Bulletproof Tanks, a JP8 Reformer, and a Generator in the Bed

By Olivia Richman — May 26, 2026

Lucid Says the Gravity Grand Touring Goes 450 Miles on a Charge. The Real Working Range Is 360 Miles. And It Costs $55 to Get 250 of Them at a Fast Charger

By Olivia Richman — May 25, 2026
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