One of China’s newest EVs is also its fastest-charging, with the ability to fill its battery from 10-70% in 4 minutes and 22 seconds.

But that’s not the only recent announcement of a fast-charging battery that quotes how many seconds it takes to fill up, showing that the race for fast charging has entered a new era which treats seconds as the significant figure, rather than minutes.

Waymo’s autonomous electric taxis crash 68% less than the average human driver, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, with lower-severity crashes on average as well. But there are some important caveats that limit the data.

Honda recently canceled the only EV it sells in the US, and this month started telling Prologue owners to “consider a hybrid.” But here’s the hitch: virtually zero EV owners are interested in switching back to gas after experiencing how much better EVs are.

The Department of Transportation has removed bike lanes from its list of proven safety measure, among other changes which will worsen traffic congestion. The changes seem focused on making roads less safe for bicycles, when cyclist deaths are already near all time highs.

The latest dumb, hypocritical “idea” to come out of the idiot running the US into the ground could actually set the precedent we need to solve climate change. Hear me out for a minute.

For the first time, battery electric vehicles were the most popular powertrain in Germany in June, setting a new sales record as the birthplace of the automobile moves forward into the next stage of its evolution.

Aptera has officially announced a repair network partnership which will give owners of its upcoming solar electric car access to thousands of repair shops nationwide.

China will require automakers to include physical buttons for safety-related functions, pushing back on the proliferation of using screens for everything in modern cars.

California filed a “notice of intent to sue” over the Department of the Interior’s moves to block wind power projects, two of which were planned off the central coast of California.

Xiaomi returned to the Nürburgring to set another lap record, but this time it did it with nobody in the car at all, setting down the first official autonomous time at the world-famous racetrack.

After a tough 2025 race where it won its class but only came in 2nd place overall, Ford brought its Super Mustang Mach-E back for revenge and managed to beat every gas car up the hill at the world’s toughest road race event.

Alongside finally getting a chance to drive the Aptera 3-wheeled solar EV, we got a short tour around the company’s facility. It was illuminating – showing off the progress Aptera has made and the challenges still to come for the company.

The Interior Department has made another illegal agreement with a gas company to drop development of cheap and clean offshore wind and instead focus on dirty, expensive gas, giving that company the better part of a billion dollars worth of taxpayer money while starving Americans of much-needed electricity.

Original post 6/17, Updated 6/30: Interior announced another deal on Monday, this one with Duke Energy to cancel a project in Carolina Long Bay.

Update 8/6: Interior has bribed German wind company RWE $1.22 billion to give up offshore leases in New York, Louisiana and California.

After a very long wait, Aptera’s solar car is finally rolling and ready for journalist drives. So we headed down to San Diego to check out how development is going on this unique solar electric vehicle.

Porsche is updating its four-door electric sportscar for the 2027 model year, with a few consequential updates and one new optional feature that I still cannot fathom why anybody would want.

Every one of the top sixteen cars sold in China was an EV in May according to China Passenger Car Association data, as gasoline-powered cars continue their structural decline in the world’s largest auto market.

The White House is announcing another waste of taxpayer dollars today, spending $700M to try to revive a dead energy source, saddling Americans with more pollution and infrastructure that is destined to go unused in short order.

A new poll of US voters shows that the vast majority of Americans want the Environmental Protection Agency to do its job and keep toxic chemicals out of the air and water. But the EPA’s current mission, under Lee Zeldin, is to poison Americans and raise their health and energy costs. When voters learn about this, they show significant concern.

New York state has announced a lawsuit against the Interior Department’s illegal $1 billion payment to an oil company to stop development of a wind farm off the New York Coast.

The project would have saved New Yorkers $10 billion and created 1,700 jobs, which would have conflicted with the Department of the Interior’s goals of raising your energy costs.

SpaceX has a big IPO coming up, but the next step might be a merger of SpaceX and Tesla. And if so, it could be a backdoor to triggering Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package automatically, without having to meet any of the operational milestones, thus diluting everyone’s shares without delivering on the promises that were made.