BAIC will connect models across multiple brands to CATL’s battery swap network and open its dealer network to support station construction. Read more…
Tesla posts middling Q3 results amidst positive developments
Tesla posted its Q3 2026 earnings report, and going purely by the numbers, it’s neither great nor bad. During the period, Tesla produced 457,387 Model Y and Model 3 units and delivered 478,237. Including other models, Tesla produced 464,391 cars and shipped 486,532. Revenue was $28.05 billion, the same year-over-year, while GAAP operating income was $787 million, down 43% YoY.… Read more…
CATL’s Akin Li: “Whichever battery type the market demands, we’ll have it”
CATL is a near-indispensable supplier to the emerging European e-truck industry, with many model series from local manufacturers running on cells or entire battery packs from the Chinese company. We met with CATL’s top manager Akin Li to explore how CATL plans to further strengthen its partnerships with Europe’s truck manufacturers. Read more…
Bosch bets on electric drives for trucks – while still backing hydrogen
Bosch sees significant growth potential in the commercial vehicle sector and aims to broadly support the technological transformation of trucks. At the IAA Transportation, Jan-Oliver Röhrl, Executive Vice President Commercial Vehicles and Off-Road at Bosch, spoke with electrive about e-axles, the lack of charging infrastructure, hydrogen – and why Europe should not rule out options too early when it comes to new technologies. Read more…
GM announces new efficient EV platform
GM has streamlined its development processes and introduced a new platform in a shorter timeframe, with the first production vehicles set to debut “very soon”. From 2028, vehicles on the platform will also feature significantly more efficient batteries and a faster, centralised computing system. Read more…
Nvidia embraces European automakers
Nvidia is expanding its business with technologies for automated driving in Europe. For example, the ridesharing service Bolt is relying on the Alpamayo stack from the AI company for its planned robotaxis, and VWN is showcasing the ID. Buzz AD with Nvidia Hyperion. At the same time, Volkswagen, Porsche, and other partners are advancing a joint data and simulation platform. Read more…
Redwood and Rivian set to expand their EV battery recycling partnership
Redwood Materials and Rivian are expanding their existing EV battery partnership, adding a fresh battery material recycling effort to the EV startup’s Normal, Illinois, vehicle factory and, potentially, other Rivian-owned sites. Read more…
VW’s Jetta launches first electric sedan M6 in China’s entry-level EV market
The Jetta M6 starts at 79,800 yuan ($11,880) and offers a CLTC range of up to 555 km. Read more…
Tesla Q3 results: full order books, but declining figures
Tesla’s revenue is stagnating, with the US electric car manufacturer witnessing a significant drop in profits during the third quarter. However, the Americans’ car business is not doing poorly – order books are full. The reasons lie elsewhere. Read more…
BEV registrations rose sharply across Europe in September
Registrations of electric cars in the EU rose sharply in September. According to ACEA, 290,117 pure electric cars were newly registered – 72.9 per cent more than in the same month last year. This put their market share at 29.9 per cent in September. Since the beginning of the year, BEVs have achieved a market share of 22.7 per cent. Read more…
BYD shares interior images of third-gen Qin Plus as teaser campaign for key family sedan continues
The third-generation Qin Plus adopts the new-generation design language of BYD’s Dynasty lineup, with lines simplified as much as possible. Read more…
Xpeng GX deliveries top 30,000 as Middle East orders near 4,000
Xpeng says the GX became its fastest model to surpass 10 billion yuan in revenue. Read more…
YES-EU and CATL open a battery service center in Norway
YES-EU and CATL open a new battery service center in Norway to support battery lifecycle management and repairs for European fleets and OEMs. Read more…
Europe loosens its 2035 combustion ban – legacy automakers buy more time
Have you bought a new car in Europe over the last five years? You have probably gone through a showroom experience that felt much like a lecture. Salespeople trying to steer us away from petrol engines and toward battery power, warning that the old ways had an expiry date… For ordinary drivers who do not have a driveway to plug… Read more…
Tesla energy revenue drops 16% as it refunds customers over tariffs
Tesla’s energy business deployed more batteries in Q3 2026 but brought in less money. Energy generation and storage revenue fell 16% year-over-year to $2.88 billion, even though storage deployments rose 10% to 13.7 GWh. Read more…
China advances second batch of Level 3 approvals after Changan and BAIC
An MIIT official said work on the second batch is underway, without disclosing the automakers, models or approval timeline. Read more…
Texas transit agency electrifies two bus lines with Camber Charging EVSE
CapMetro electrifies two bus lines with Camber Charging’s pantograph EVSE, enabling frequent service and extended range for electric buses. Read more…
The second-gen BYD Seagull grows up, but keeps its price under $10,000
There’s an obvious pattern whenever a carmaker releases a second generation of its cheap-n-cheerful city car. The original model hits the streets as a scrappy, compromised runabout with thin door cards, four seats, and just enough power to keep up with urban traffic. Then a rival builds something slightly bigger for the same money, buyers walk across the street, and… Read more…
It’s finally here: Porsche puts wireless charging into production [UPDATE]
Buried in a press release titled, “Even more colours and even greater convenience for the Cayenne Electric” was news that Porsche, for the first time, would be offering electrically wireless inductive charging on its impressively powerful Cayenne Electric SUV. Read more…
Tesla pushes unsupervised FSD to Q2 2027, and only inside Robotaxi zones
Tesla now says unsupervised “Full Self-Driving” in customer-owned cars will arrive in Q2 2027. It’s the latest date on a promise Elon Musk has been making to FSD buyers for the better part of a decade. Read more…
