#electric-vehicles

#electric-vehicles

Car-buying website Edmunds predicts a huge flood of lease turn-ins in 2026. That will include electric vehicles, many of which were leased during the tax credit era. Coupled with depreciation, this means that a giant supply of low-mileage EVs are hitting dealer lots, many with excellent range and outstanding features. Some people say that given recent trends, the auto industry bet wrong on electric vehicles. I see things differently. I think it bet wrong on high prices.

EV sales in North America fell 1% this year compared to 2024, according to data from supply chain data firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. The dip comes as the US has faced a combination of policy changes, tariffs, and supply chain upheavals this year. There were 1.7 million EVs sold in North America between January and November - far behind the 11.6 million sold in China and below the 3.8 million sold in Europe.

The EU's outright ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035 is poised to be watered down, a senior European parliament politician has said. The decision, expected to be unveiled by the European Commission on Tuesday in Strasbourg, would be a divisive move, angering environmental campaigners who argue it would amount to the gutting of the EU's flagship green deal.

It means "improvement"often the continuous, gradual, methodical kind. And Toyota's first electric vehicles, including the Subaru Solterra, badly needed some of it. On paper, those EVs should've capitalized on the uber-popularity of cars like the Toyota RAV4 and the Subaru Forester. Instead, the original Solterra offered middling range figures, delivered abysmal fast-charging times and lacked key EV software features, like automatic route-planning. Its Toyota twin, the bZ4X, had all of the same problems.

Four years ago, Ford and South Korean battery maker SK On struck a deal to form a joint venture and spend $11.4 billion to build factories in Tennessee and Kentucky that would produce batteries for the next generation of electric F-Series trucks. The factories live on; the joint venture will not. SK On, a subsidiary of SK Innovation, said Thursday it reached an agreement with Ford to end the joint venture.

The world's biggest automotive markets are in fight-or-flight mode right now. While China is pushing forward with EVs, the U.S. has all but pulled federal support for them. And then there's Europe, which is caught in the center of a global tug-of-war between outright banning gas cars and admitting defeat to the Chinese EV market and silently letting it take hold. It's all coming to a headvery soon.

"consistent with the theory that E-HE vehicles are less audible to pedestrians in urban areas where background ambient noise levels are higher."

Donald Trump's trade tariffs have failed to hold back China's export dominance, which scaled new heights in November. China's trade surplus the difference between the value of goods it imports and exports has hit $1 trillion for the first time, a significant yardstick in the country's role as factory of the world, making everything from socks and curtains to electric cars.

The "win" for Ford and GM is that they are fossil-fuel kings in a fossil-fuel nation. The EV market has died, thanks mostly to the end of the federal $7,500 EV tax credit. iSeeCars research says that EV sales as a percentage of total U.S. new car sales dropped from 8% in the third quarter to 4% in the fourth quarter. It will stay at that level through 2026, the research firm forecasts.

When Hertz emerged from bankruptcy and went public in 2021, the rental car company made a multi-billion-dollar bet that the future of mobility pointed toward mass electrification and that the time to pivot was immediate. Hertz, the second-largest rental car company in the US, made a bulk purchase of 100,000 Teslas that year - estimated to cost around $4.2 billion and deemed the largest single purchase of EVs ever.

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On Wednesday, president Trump announced plans to drastically lower fuel efficiency standards for new cars and pick-up trucks, the New York Times reports, claiming the move will save over $100 billion over the next five years and lower the average price tag of new vehicles by $1,000. But both symbolically and in actual effect, the move would be firmly putting Biden era environmental policy in the rear view mirror, ditching regulations and consumer incentives to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles.

On Dec. 1, TikToker Julia Rose (@julia.whiteeee7) posted a video, which amassed over 128,600 views as of Tuesday, expressing that being a passenger in electric vehicles causes motion sickness. Riding in the back of an electric vehicle is a different type of car sickness omfg, reads the text overlay in a video of her in which she appears nauseous in the back of a moving vehicle. Are Self-Driving Vehicles More Likely To Cause Motion Sickness? The comments were quick to validate her statement, with many comments claiming that they also get particularly motion sick from self-driving vehicles such as Teslas.

Though the benefit technically ended for solo drivers a few months ago, the Department of Motor Vehicles offered a 60-day grace period that ended Monday. Now, solo drivers face fines of up to $490. With this, most carpool lanes require vehicles with more than two people. Here is what to know: How many people are affected? As of Aug. 14, more than half a million motorists statewide had an active decal on their vehicle to access carpool lanes.

Sometimes in life, you can do everything right and still not come out on top. Take the Kia EV6, for example. It really deserves to be a bigger hit than it's been. Here's a competitively priced electric vehicle with around 300 miles of range, solid performance, striking looks, decent practicality, and some of the best fast-charging performance you can get under $100,000. Yet it hasn't exactly lit up the sales charts.

Running a fleet-based business in the UK was always financially challenging. But with Reeves' budget changes and the risks of operating somewhere like the capital, things have never been more difficult. With so many rules and regulations, it's almost impossible to thrive in an environment like this. Fortunately, strategies for success are still available. Many fleet-based businesses continue to operate in spite of the challenges they face.

No car company wants to admit this now because it's become a marketing turn-off for half the country, but electric vehicles are supposed to be about saving the planet. They're supposed to be about moving transportation past gasoline, toward a future powered by sustainable energy. Cutting back on pollution from one of its biggest sources, which is personal transportation. It's hard to justify any of that in the Cadillac Escalade IQ:

It is good news the electric car grant is getting topped up and that the Treasury realised they had not allocated enough to it in the first place. Having said that, the policy around EVs is really confused. You can't incentivise people to get EVs while also floating the idea of pay-per-mile chargers. Prospective buyers feel like they are being green-lit to buy a new car and then immediately met with a stop sign in the form of a pay-per-mile tax.

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.

Chancellors of the exchequer have long resisted any form of road pricing as politically toxic. That may be about to change next week: Rachel Reeves, perhaps inured to being pilloried for any money-raising proposal, is expected to introduce a charge explicitly linked to how far EVs drive. The Treasury has all but confirmed some kind of charge will be announced at next week's budget,

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.

Electric cars are becoming a familiar sight across the UK, as more and more businesses are embracing this new, greener way of transport. And with schemes like salary sacrifice and relief at source, it's become easier than ever to take a step into the future. Rising living costs mean that both employers and employees are likely looking for options that reduce their expenses, while still enjoying comfort and practicality. Many drivers also want to reduce their everyday running costs, since petrol prices continue to fluctuate