#electric vehicles

#electric vehicles

The European-American carmaker conglomerate has struggled with declining sales, soaring prices, quality issues, rampant infighting and a culture reportedly so miserable that both labor unions and car dealers high-fived each other when its CEO was ousted last year. Amid a trans-Atlantic blame game over what went wrong, another theme kept coming up: overly aggressive investments in electric vehicles while its Jeep, Dodge and Ram loyalists remained firmly attached to gasoline models.

But one year later, the tax credit is gone, the EV9 GT is postponed indefinitely, and the EV6 is, seemingly, the one EV that didn't set a sales record in the second quarter, even as buyers rushed to claim tax credits. And as a South Korean company, Kia has been vulnerable to new tariffs. The car market is now very different from what it was a year ago. But Kia's competency in all three powertrain types means that it can lean into choice, executives said.

A compact Chinese electric hatchback has the highest occupant safety score in Euro NCAP history. It adds to the growing list of very safe Chinese cars available in Europe. All four Chinese cars recently tested by Euro NCAP got the maximum five-star rating, while European cars from BMW or VW got four stars. Chinese cars were once notorious for their terrible safety ratings. But things have changed.

Xiaomi has published its Q3 2025 financial report and the numbers are glowing - this is the fourth consecutive quarter with more than CNY 100 billion in revenue. Xiaomi's smartphone business is well established at this point and it continues to perform - the company shipped 43.3 million units globally, which marks the 9th consecutive quarter of growth. Globally, Xiaomi is in the Top 3 and it is #2 in China.

After years of being dogged by a poor stock price, Ford Motor Co. ( NYSE: F) shares are up 32% this year, compared to 14% for the S&P 500. And the stock has a yield of 4.6%. Ford's earnings were fine, neither disappointing nor spectacular. Revenue rose 9% to $50.5 billion. Per share earnings increased from $o.22 to $0.60. Although Ford has set a recall record this year that may never be broken, the talk about warranty damage to the bottom line has quieted down.

The great EV retreat continues as more and more automakers are pulling investments out of the battery race in favor of classic petroleum. Its latest victim? Subaru. The maker of damn near every car in Vermont plans to scale back its investments in EVs in favor of both hybrids and combustion-powered cars due to shrinking demand and America's brutal automotive tariffs.

The family of Quentin Willson, television presenter and producer, motoring journalist, author, and campaigner, wish to announce that he passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Saturday 8th November, following a short battle with lung cancer. He was 68. A true national treasure, Quentin brought the joy of motoring, from combustion to electric, into our living rooms. He helped shape the original Top Gear as one of its first hosts, working alongside Jeremy Clarkson and the team who took the pioneering show global.

Let's begin with a birds-eye view. Progress has been better than many imagined, but also too slow to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. By the end of 2024, on average about 13.5 percent of all the low-emissions technologies required for 2050 had been deployed. This was a few percentage points more than two years earlier. But it was also roughly half of what is needed to keep warming "well below" 2°C.

Mazda Motor Corp. rolled out a new, flatter version of its logo at the Japan Mobility Show 2025 in October that did away with the dimensional, beveled silver chrome effect the logomark used to have in favor of a solid black line. The new M mark is more angular, too, evoking a pair of wings that was first introduced in 1997. The company says it designed the flat new logo for improved visibility, especially in digital environments. That also makes it late to the party.

While most details about Ferrari's Elettrica EV, including its appearance and price, remain a mystery ahead of a planned launch in the spring of 2026, the company said it will go from 0 to 62 miles per hour in 2.5 seconds; have a battery with a capacity of 122 kWh to ensure recharging in as little as eight minutes; and boast a range of 323 miles on one charge. In other words, the company is promising the kind of excellence aficionados expect from Ferrari, beloved since 1947 when it started making cars renowned for their beauty, slick engineering and mind-boggling speed, both on streets and racetracks.

Renewable energy has grown faster than every major forecast predicted in 2015. There's now four times as much solar power as the International Energy Agency (IEA) expected 10 years ago. Last year alone, the world installed 553 gigawatts of solar power-roughly as much as 100 million U.S. homes use-which is 1,500% more than the IEA had projected. Investors are now pouring twice as much into renewables as into fossil fuels.