#electric vehicles

#electric vehicles

A "guidance document" released by the EU on Monday gives instructions for Chinese EV manufacturers on making price offers for battery EVs, including minimum import prices and other details. The EU had imposed tariffs of up to 35.3% on Chinese EV imports in 2024 following an anti-subsidy investigation. The EU said that minimum import prices must be set at a level "appropriate to remove the injurious effects of the subsidization." Chinese EV manufacturers' plans for investments within the EU will also be considered, it said.

Mazda will begin selling a new electric mid-size SUV in Europe this year. It's not coming to the U.S. The CX-6e will compete with models such as the Tesla Model Y, BMW iX3 and Audi Q4 e-tron. It looks sharp and gets a high-tech interior. Mazda has been late to the electric vehicle party, but it's finally picking up the pace in a market that doesn't reward laggards.

Kia America announced a 7% sales increase in 2025 after selling a record 852,155 units in the U.S. last year. It's the third consecutive annual sales record for the South Korean automaker's U.S. division, and the feat was driven by strong sales growth for vehicles like its K4 sedan and its Sportage and Telluride SUVs. Kia's U.S. market share has never been greater.

Lucid Motors built twice as many electric vehicles in 2025 as it did in the prior year, a sign that the company has bounced back from early production struggles with its new Gravity SUV. The company announced Monday that it finished the year having built 18,378 EVs, with 8,412 of those coming in the fourth quarter alone. That's more than Lucid built at its Casa Grande, Arizona factory in the first half of the year.

While investors chased artificial intelligence stocks and cryptocurrency throughout 2025, a commodity fund quietly delivered returns that rivaled the market's biggest winners. The United States Commodity Index Funds Trust ( NYSE:CPER) surged 39% last year, matching NVDA's performance and more than doubling the S&P 500's 16% gain. CPER tracks copper futures contracts, providing exposure to the industrial metal without mining company operational risks.

In a long-vacant industrial building on Mare Island, once a vital cog in the U.S. Navy's shipbuilding machine, a very different kind of manufacturing hum has taken hold. Where trains once rolled inside carrying steel and supplies for submarines and ships, technicians now strip, rebuild and re-engineer classic vehicles, many of them reborn as electric cars designed to meet modern expectations of performance, safety and reliability.

After years of EV optimism, revanchists are pushing back against things like clean energy and fuel economy. Automakers have responded, postponing or canceling new electric vehicles in favor of gasoline-burning ones. It hasn't been all bad, though. Despite the changing winds, EV infrastructure continues to be built out and, anecdotally at least, feels far more reliable. We got to witness a pretty epic Formula 1 season right to the wire,