The EV Maintenance Discount Is Real. It Works Out to About $20 a Month.
AAA's 2026 Your Driving Costs data puts the EV maintenance advantage at about $248 a year. Energy, insurance and depreciation…
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Tesla’s Semi Plant Opens, Rivian Recalls Nearly 99,000 EVs, and What Else Moved
Tesla's Semi factory opens, Rivian recalls 98,828 EVs over backup cameras, Geely hits four-minute charging, and the BYD question hangs…
Used Car Values Just Dipped for the First Time This Year. Used EVs Went the Other Way.
The Manheim index slipped 0.4% from a year ago, but wholesale EV values rose 2.3% as gas hit $4.48 and…
Today in Automotive History: September 23, 2020 — The Order Behind California’s 2035 Gas Car Ban
On Sept. 23, 2020, Newsom signed the order behind the California gas car ban. It never banned a gas car,…
Hyundai Ioniq 9 Recall: 5,360 SUVs Need a Seat Software Fix Six Months After the Palisade
Hyundai is recalling 5,360 2026 Ioniq 9 SUVs because the second-row power seats may keep moving when they contact a…
Ford’s 50-Year-Old Spanish Plant Just Became Geely’s Way Around an 18.8% Tariff
Forget the horsepower number for a second. The most important thing about Geely’s new off-road...
Watch: A Tesla Floated Away in New Haven’s Flash Flood. The Real Warning Comes Weeks Later.
Weight is supposed to be an advantage in bad weather. More mass generally means more...
The Motorcycle Industry Just Found a $3.3 Billion Business That Isn’t Selling Motorcycles
The motorcycle you buy in a few years may have less to tell you about...
Tesla Declared Its Driverless Cybercab Street-Legal. Washington Just Opened the Books to Check.
No federal inspector ever climbed inside Tesla’s Cybercab and signed off on it before it...
Volkswagen’s New Record Car Runs on an ID. Polo Motor. The Real Target Was the Battery.
The most expensive component in an affordable electric car is not the motor, the software...
Tesla Just Set Up Shop in Vietnam. The Country’s Biggest Charging Network Won’t Let It Plug In.
Vietnam has spent the past eighteen months assembling one of the most generous electric-vehicle tax...
Honda’s Rare-Earth-Free Magnet Bet Is Real. It’s Also the Smallest Check on the Table.
Honda did not just invest in a magnet company this month. It joined a line...
Tesla Signed Its Own Permission Slip for the Pedal-Free Cybercab. Regulators Just Asked to See It.
A driverless Tesla Cybercab with no steering wheel and no brake pedal has been picking...
Porsche Blamed Your Charging Habits for Killing the Taycan’s Battery. Ten Months Later, It Blamed a Supplier Instead.
A judge refused to send the Taycan battery case to arbitration. The more revealing record is Porsche’s own recall filings,…