BMW Just Found A New Partner To Boost Its Solid-State Battery Dreams The finish line is still far away, but solid-state battery development is in full swing at BMW. InsideEVs · Nov 5, 2025
Western Journalists Still Don’t Understand BYD There's a reason people all across Western Europe are buying cars like the BYD Seal. They're really good, and in certain ways better than local cars. InsideEVs · Nov 5, 2025
Google Maps Is About To Get Way Easier To Use While Driving Want to find a vegan sushi restaurant along your route with plenty of parking? Google says you can just ask. InsideEVs · Nov 5, 2025
BYD's European Takeover Continues—And Tesla's Feeling The Pain Tesla's top rival continues to advance in Europe. Also: BMW is a bright spot in Europe's EV race, and Rivian's Q3 was a mix of growing pains and good news. InsideEVs · Nov 5, 2025
The Honda Super-One Is A Delightful, Tiny Electric Hot Hatch With a punchy electric motor and simulated gears, the Super One is charming to drive. There's just one catch. InsideEVs · Nov 5, 2025
Mercedes Crashed An Electric Truck On Purpose. Here’s What Happened To The Battery The company simulated a car hitting the side of an eActros 600 truck cab, which has a huge, 621 kWh battery. InsideEVs · Nov 5, 2025
The $45,000 Rivian R2 Will Be Able To Power Your Home Rivian’s make-or-break R2 SUV will be fitted with a newly designed control module that enables bidirectional charging. InsideEVs · Nov 5, 2025
Here's What The Rivian R2 Launch Edition Will Be Like Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe offered new details about the inaugural edition of the upcoming Rivian R2, the EV startup's $45,000 new SUV due out in 2026. InsideEVs · Nov 5, 2025
'Not In Our Product Roadmap': Rivian Won't Make An Extended-Range Hybrid Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe shut down the idea that the EV startup will make a hybrid like the Scout SUV or Ram 1500 REV. InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025
It's Not Just Tesla. Rivian Is Getting Into Robotics. The EV startup created a company called Mind Robotics to venture into InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025
More Than 300,000 Jeep Plug-In Hybrids Could Be A Fire Risk Stellantis has issued a major recall for the Jeep Wrangler 4xe and the Grand Cherokee 4xe due to battery fire risk. InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025
Tesla Model Y Performance First Drive: Fast, But Enough To Keep Up? Faster, more extreme and nicer inside—the new top-spec Model Y is fun, but the competition is moving even more quickly. InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025
Here's Why The Cadillac Optiq Switched To Rear-Wheel-Drive—And Did It Faster With AI GM’s engineers only needed one model year to transform the Cadillac Optiq into a better car dynamically. Here's their secret. InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025
Google Maps Is About to Get A Whole Lot Smarter With 'Live Lane Guidance' The 2026 Polestar 4 will debut a new Google Maps feature that will make getting lost on the road really difficult. InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025
InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025 EV Sales Are Slowing. Now The Auto Industry Is Banking On A Self-Driving Boom Automakers are banking on an AV comeback. Plus: Tesla's door handle mess gets worse, and even Toyota can't escape tariff pain.
InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025 The Polestar 4 Has No Rear Window. Here’s Why That’s Not Crazy Polestar's sleek coupe-SUV loses the rear window for a covered area, with a digital camera as a mirror. Here's what it's like to drive.
InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025 The 2026 Polestar 4 Is Flawed But Charming—And Probably Polestar's Best Yet The electric Polestar 4 SUV-coupe gets up to 310 miles of range, and loses its rear window for a camera system. Here's why it all works.
InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025 I Drifted Mercedes' GLC EV Prototype Across The Desert. It's A Needed Reset—And Better Than Any Gas Crossover Limitless torque and a balanced chassis make the GLC a joy to slide around in the sand. It's a reminder of just how fun a well-resolved EV can be.
InsideEVs · Nov 4, 2025 Ford’s $30,000 Electric Pickup Is Taking Shape–And It’s Coming Fast The American automaker is wasting no time in developing its affordable electric platform, with component sourcing already at 95%.
InsideEVs · Nov 3, 2025 2026 Nissan Leaf: America's Cheapest EV Just Crushed Its EPA-Estimated Range The 2026 Nissan Leaf isn't just a bargain. America's cheapest electric car is shaping up to be a range monster.
InsideEVs · Nov 3, 2025 This Is What Happened To EV Prices When The Tax Credit Went Away With the EV tax credit gone, the average new-car transaction price shot back up in October and leases went down. But there are reasons to be optimistic, too.
InsideEVs · Nov 3, 2025 Waymo Self-Driving Taxis Will Hit 12 U.S. Cities By 2026. Is Yours Next? Waymo is expanding its driverless taxi service way faster than before, with cities like San Diego, Washington, D.C., Detroit and Las Vegas joining next year.
InsideEVs · Nov 3, 2025 This Drop-In Battery Can Add 60 Miles Of Range To Any EV The prototype fits nicely in the deep part of the Tesla Model S’ trunk, but the range extender will be available for other EVs, too.
InsideEVs · Nov 3, 2025 Toyota Says This Hydrogen Tacoma Can Rescue Dead EVs In The Wild It not only has the ability to produce its own electricity, but it can also supply that electricity to charge another EV, appliances or an entire house.
InsideEVs · Nov 3, 2025 Tesla's Future Rides On Elon Musk's $1 Trillion Payday—One Way Or Another Plus, it's a season of mixed results for Chinese automakers like BYD and Xpeng, and the world may get relief from the Nexperia chip shortage.