#electric-vehicles

#electric-vehicles

Just seven new petrol cars were sold in Norway last month, data shows. The country, which is the frontrunner in the uptake of electric vehicles, shifted a record low number of new fossil-fuel cars in January, information from the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council (OFV) reveals. Only seven petrol, 29 hybrid and 98 diesel cars were registered, while more than 2,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold.

The charges announced today largely reflect the cost of overestimating the pace of the energy transition that distanced us from many car buyers' real-world needs, means and desires. They also reflect the impact of previous poor operational execution, the effects of which are being progressively addressed by our new team. The company said that the charges include cash payments of 6.5bn, to be paid out over the next four years.

Tesla can console itself with the fact that the Model Y remains Europe's most-registered car, though that task is much easier when you essentially give consumers only two models to choose from. 149,805 Models Y found European homes in 2025, 28 percent fewer than last year. The Model 3 also proved unpopular, falling by 24 percent to 85,393 units sold.

Chinese state-owned carmaker Chery is pressing ahead with its rapid UK expansion by launching a fourth brand in the British market, underlining its ambition to become a long-term player in one of Europe's most competitive automotive landscapes. The group confirmed it will introduce vehicles under the Lepas brand, a new line focused on battery-electric and hybrid SUVs aimed at younger families. While Lepas is being developed primarily with Europe in mind, the UK will be one of its early launch markets.

As we look toward 2026 and beyond, manufacturers are reinventing everything from compact city EVs and high-performance electric sports cars to luxury SUVs with advanced driver interfaces and even autonomous vehicles that blur the line between car and tech device. Just as we keep a watchful eye on the most anticipated hotel openings each year, discerning drivers and enthusiasts now watch the calendar for the next wave of future cars - vehicles that promise to redefine performance, design, and how we think about personal mobility.

China is banning Tesla-style concealed door handles on electric vehicles to address safety concerns regarding people getting trapped inside their cars. The ban will take effect on January 1st next year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's announcement, and will require all vehicles sold in China to have mechanical release door handles on the inside and outside.

Last year, almost every new car sold in Norway, the nature-loving country flush with oil wealth, was fully electric. In prosperous Denmark, which was all-in on petrol and diesel cars until just before Covid, sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) reached a share of 68%. In California, the share of zero-emissions vehicles hit 20%. And at least every third new car now bought by the Dutch, Finns, Belgians and Swedes burns no fuel.

Even as auto industry executives, analysts and policy experts warn of an electric-vehicle slowdown in the United States, one crucial part of the EV transition didn't slow down at all in 2025: the nation's fast-charging network. America's EV public fast-charging network grew at a staggering pace last year, the charging analytics firm Paren reported Wednesday. The record-breaking year saw more than 18,000 new fast-charging ports installed nationwide.

Almost certainly, your EV's range will drop when temperatures do. Some cars, like my own 2024 Kia EV6 pictured here, will adjust their range estimates to compensate for colder weather. I see, at most, around 220 to 240 miles of indicated range on a full charge when temperatures are between 0 and 30 degrees F. In temperate weather, the EV6 will deliver between 280 and 300 miles of range when the battery is at 100%.

Life as a startup carmaker is hard-just ask Lucid Motors. When we met the brand and its prototype Lucid Air sedan in 2017, the company planned to put the first cars in customers' hands within a couple of years. But you know what they say about plans. A lack of funding paused everything until late 2018, when Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund bought itself a stake. A billion dollars meant Lucid could build a factory-at the cost of alienating some former fans

If you're a typical American, you get home from work and start flipping switches and turning knobs-doing laundry, cooking dinner, watching TV. With so many other folks doing the same, the strain on the electrical grid in residential areas is highest at this time. That demand will only grow as the world moves away from fossil fuels, with more people buying induction stoves, heat pumps, and electric vehicles.

As someone who has driven a 2001 Isuzu Trooper for most of her life, getting the keys to an electric car made me feel like I was trading in a BlackBerry for an iPhone. With electric cars exploding in popularity, I traveled to sunny California last summer for a weeklong trip in Palm Springs, where I rented an Audi E-Tron Sportback and took it all the way to Joshua Tree National Park.

the government is now looking to demands for batteries of a different sort to sustain it. Ford and the federal government negotiated to bring three electric vehicle battery plants to Ontario investments worth billions of dollars and had hoped to not only to see those batteries go into EVs made in the province but also to have them made with parts produced in Ontario and with minerals mined and refined in the province.

Ford beat earnings estimates in three straight quarters through Q3 2025, with a stunning 367% surprise in Q1. The stock responded by going... nowhere. Up 47% over the past year but still trading at $13.60, barely above where it sat in 2016. That's the Ford pattern in a nutshell: promise without payoff, execution without escape velocity.

The all-electric Volvo EX60 is being described as "a car you can have a natural conversation with", and just days before its global reveal, the manufacturer has announced that the car is its first to be designed to launch with the Google Gemini AI assistant and continuous and "ultra-responsive" connectivity delivered by the Snapdragon Auto Connectivity Platform from Qualcomm Technologies.

Being an entry-level electric car, the EV2 will apparently retail somewhere around $32,000, but don't be fooled by the price or small size (it's barely more than 13 feet long)-the top-spec version will have a 61-kWh battery that should be good for just shy of 280  miles. Meanwhile, the 400-volt e‑GMP platform lets you recharge in 30 minutes from 10 to 80 percent.