Two Dealership EV Fires in Three Days: One Hospitalized Two Workers, the Other Held Firefighters for 17 Hours
A Wallingford, Conn., dealer garage fire hurt two workers, and a Fort Worth Cadillac lot fire lasted 17 hours, 33…
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RCMP Searches Lion Electric’s Quebec Site in an Investment Fraud Probe; No One Has Been Charged
The RCMP searched Lion Electric’s Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, facility on Oct. 21, 2026. No suspects or charges have been named.
Volkswagen CFO Says ‘We Cannot Afford to Lose Any Time’ After a €5.86 Billion Q3 Operating Loss, Then Cites Tariffs and EV Margins
Volkswagen Group posted a third-quarter operating loss of €5.86 billion, against a loss of €1.3...
GM Earned $3.3 Billion Last Quarter. Its Lending Arm Set Aside 39% More for Car Loans Going Bad
Ford, GM and Stellantis have mostly finished booking their EV write-downs. The strain now shows up at their finance arms,…
GM Is Ditching the Rented Building Where It Built the First Chevy Volt Battery, the Same Week It Approved a $20 Billion Buyback
GM is closing the leased Brownstown, Mich., plant that built the first Chevy Volt battery pack, the same week it…
Tesla Tried to Blame Vandals for a Model X Fire. A Quebec Judge Handed It a C$161,700 Bill Instead
Tesla Canada owes Intact Insurance C$161,700 for a 2020 Model X that burned on a...
Norway’s Biggest Home Guard Drill of the Year Rode in Rental EVs. Some of Them Were Rolling Tape
Norway’s Home Guard spent a week in September rehearsing how to defend its capital. Some...
Under-Torqued Bolts Trigger Blue Bird Electric School Bus Battery Recall
A battery pack holds hundreds of kilowatt-hours of stored energy and weighs as much as...
Bigger Hubs, Higher Tesla Prices: Decoding America’s Q3 Fast-Charging Data
America’s public DC fast-charging network crossed 80,000 ports this summer. That sounds like a victory...
An Oviedo 11-Year-Old Pleaded Not Guilty Over a 4,500-Watt Electric Dirt Bike. Florida Law Calls It a Motorcycle
An Oviedo sixth-grader pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor registration charge after police classified his pedal-less 4,500-watt electric dirt bike…
AAA Ran EVs, Hybrids and Gas Cars Through the Same Math. Hybrids Won Every Class.
AAA's 2026 Your Driving Costs study found hybrids cheapest to own in all four classes it compared. EVs saved $1,500…
One Burning EV at a Fort Worth Cadillac Dealer Spread to at Least Seven More, Then Kept Firefighters There for 17 Hours, 33 Minutes
Fort Worth firefighters were sent to Frank Kent Cadillac, in the 3500 block of West...
BMW’s EVs Are Up 37.5% in Europe and Down About 35% Everywhere Else. Neue Klasse Hasn’t Left Europe Yet
BMW Group delivered 81,941 electric vehicles in Europe in the third quarter, up 37.5%. Outside Europe, its battery-electric deliveries fell…
Families Say Two Kids Survived a Chevy Bolt Crash, Then Died in the Battery Fire. California Let Those Damages Expire on Jan. 1
Families say a rented 2023 Chevy Bolt's battery fire killed two children and two adults after a 2024 head-on crash…
VW Has No Fix Yet, So 22,524 ID.4 Owners Have to Stop at 80%. It Chose Who’s Included Partly by Reading Their Charging Data
Volkswagen is telling 22,524 ID.4 owners to stop charging at 80% under a fire-risk recall with no known cause and…