E-Mobility

Tesla buyers in China can now order the refreshed Model Y. The updated electric SUV might be nearing a US launch as a covered Model Y "Juniper" has been sighted again in public in California.

Microvast's breakthrough True All-Solid-State Battery offers safer, high-voltage operation in a compact form factor. It promises longer range, faster charging, and higher safety for electric vehicles.

The PVY Power is a mountain-style electric bike with 27-inch wheels rated to go for up to 100 kilometers (km, or ~62 miles) per charge. It is also taking part in its brand's 2025 New Year's sale at the greatest discount. The event also offers up to €230 off bikes with the same amount of torque and fatter tires.

It looks like recent Tesla Cybertruck sales woes have started to hit the production team behind the infamous electric pickup truck. A recent report claims that Tesla effectively had some Cybertruck production staff on furlough for a few days last December, subsequently forcing returning employees onto Model Y production instead.

The Model Y Juniper only offers 3% longer range on a charge, and now it has become clear why.

The new Tesla Model Y Juniper refresh that was just announced may be offered with rather unorthodox seating arrangements.

Tesla announced the new Model Y Juniper refresh with two light bars, a quieter ride and vented seats, but with a price higher than the facelift's predecessor, and middling specs that take nothing from the Cybertruck engineering.

The Segway Xyber is a new, electric bike designed like a motorbike and is intended to impress with fast acceleration and full suspension. Smart features are available in tandem with the Segway Mobility App, and its price tag is no higher than that of a well-equipped e-bike.

The Bioweapon Defense Mode in Tesla vehicles with HEPA filter comes in handy for a Model Y owner trying to escape LA's Palisades fire.

The first passenger vehicle that is purpose-built for autonomy from the ground up won't come in the US from Tesla but rather Waymo and Zeekr.

The Model Y Juniper refresh release seems imminent, perhaps as soon as next week, as it has been caught testing in snowy conditions unburdened by its test mule camouflage for the first time.

Despite being primarily known for their lightweight carbon e-bikes, Urtopia has now unveiled a bicycle with a titanium frame. The Titanium Zero weighs a mere 10.8 kg (23.8 lb), largely thanks to its 1.17 kg (2.58 lb) mid-drive motor.

A side-by-side encounter of the Model Y Juniper facelift's Performance version with the current Performance trim has revealed some intriguing new details about Tesla's upcoming Model Y refresh.

Heybike backs its latest model as the best new all-terrain option for beginners thanks to its new Galaxy Perform S eDrive system, custom designed to help ensure that the e-bike adapts to the rider and their pedalling style rather than the other way around. It might also appeal to more seasoned enthusiasts with a torque/cadence sensor, an eight-speed Shimano Altus shifter and a choice of step-through and step-over versions.

The Segway Xafari Electric Bike has been unveiled at CES 2025. The all-terrain model has a powerful motor and a wide range of smart features, including Apple Find My location tracking and keyless locking. Plus, customers in the US who order the e-bike in the next few weeks are offered a discount.

While Elon Musk teases that the Tesla Roadster 2 can 'fly,' BYD already sells one such supercar and has released a video demo of what its suspension can do.

China's lithium reserves have skyrocketed, jumping from 6 percent to an impressive 16.5 percent of the world’s reserves thanks to some major discoveries across the country. These discoveries include a sprawling 2,800-kilometer lithium belt and salt lake deposits.

As part of the quest to strengthen its foothold in the rapidly evolving automotive industry, Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors is moving to acquire Austrian automotive safety software company TTTech Auto for no less than $625 million. This cash deal should now pass regulatory approval.

Codenamed ZA2, the upcoming BMW M4 Electric Coupe is expected to arrive in 2029. Until then, the German brand will launch the BMW M3 Electric (ZA0). However, while the M3 lineup will also get several models with combustion engines, the M4 family is expected to use only electric powertrains.

Nvidia aims to help other automakers catch up to Tesla's FSD not by logging millions of miles, but by providing a complete self-driving solution that combines 1,000 TFLOPS Thor Blackwell car chips with a new Cosmos physical world simulator.

As part of a new deal between the two automakers, XPeng and Volkswagen will install at least 20,000 charging piles in 420 Chinese towns. The two carmakers are also considering the construction of co-branded charging stations, which would obviously be accessible to owners of both brands.

Tesla won't require passing through a service center to collect vehicle repair parts for those who want to do simple fixes themselves.

Royal Enfield has announced that its impending line of Flying Flea motorcycles will be smart as well as electric. The brand has partnered with Qualcomm to power its first-gen vehicles with a new chipset, optimized for two-wheelers and with support for the latest "connected experiences" such as the new Snapdragon Car-to-Cloud Platform.

Garmin's automotive division has just unveiled its new Unified Cabin, a next-gen way to get the same generative AI-powered UI and UX on all the screen in a car via a single module. It is powered by Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon Cockpit Elite, the first digital in-car platform to have the same Oryon cores as some of the latest PCs and smartphones.

Xiaomi is set to debut the Electric Scooter 5 series soon. The Electric Scooter 5, 5 Pro, and 5 Max have now been spotted on a Finnish retail website alongside what appears to be an all-new Electric Scooter Elite model.

Early Cybertruck adopters are having a hard time getting rid of their electric pickups after the IRS included it in its EV tax credit eligibility list.

Tesla has seemingly started production of the 2025 Model Y Juniper facelift on three continents, as the refresh has been sighted on multiple occasions, with some of the most detailed close-up pictures yet.

The Strutt ev¹ personal mobility vehicle is designed for all types of users who want to travel across their neighborhoods faster and more conveniently. Built-in 3D sensors allow the Strutt ev¹ to automatically navigate around obstacles like a self-driving car.

High energy density meets increased risk of explosion. This applies to many batteries with a solid polymer electrolyte, namely solid-state batteries. A new development aims to change this without compromising on the advantages.

Electric car pioneer Tesla is struggling with sales problems. For the first time in the company's history, the US group suffered a decline in sales in 2024, while BYD took off. The Chinese car manufacturer is benefiting from innovation and subsidies.

The newly developed battery is designed to be lighter, have a longer lifespan, and offer higher performance. Additionally, two new components could reduce the costs of energy storage and even enhance its safety.

More than a decade of research into cheap sodium-ion batteries that don't need expensive lithium is slowly bearing fruit.

The Cybertruck whose truck bed was loaded with explosive materials and detonated in front of the Trump Hotel may have been the worst choice for the attacker, police photos suggest.

Xiaomi has announced a new special color for the Xiaomi SU7 EV to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The new color brings the available color options for the manufacturer's first EV to ten.

Xiaomi's first-gen electric vehicle (EV) has now officially reached the end of its first year on the market far ahead of its original estimated delivery volume, adding nearly 20,000 more units to the total in December 2024 alone. Now, the OEM has unveiled a new target for the car that is over 2x the milestones it has already passed.

The upcoming Tesla Model Y Juniper refresh has been caught in the act, testing its wiper performance in a pouring rain while driving on the highway.

Cariad, the software side of Volkswagen, has suffered a self-inflicted data leak. Due to a what seems to be a configuration error, the company left sensitive data about a number of its customers and their vehicles available online for months.

The holiday seasons involve a lot of traveling, which for EV users means more stops to charge the battery. Tesla is making public charging easier during this festive period by deploying battery-powered portable Supercharger stations called MegapackChargers.

After resurrecting the free lifetime Supercharging offer for its fastest vehicle with the longest range, Tesla is now bringing gratis charging to the Cybertruck Foundation Series.

The Juniper facelift has been caught in spy shots and video again, hinting at a much softer suspension than the current Model Y crop.

Tesla's new free FSD trial offer spills the holiday bonuses into the first quarter of next year as well, hinting at a sales push beyond the year-end shipment numbers.

Tesla's driverless Robotaxi/Cybercab car is not all that driverless, after all, as the lack of steering wheel can be compensated when stuck with something akin to a gaming console controller.

Tesla has found a way to deal with the disadvantages that LFP batteries in its RWD Model Y and Model 3 bring when charging in cold weather.

The referral credit bonuses of up to $2,000 per vehicle purchase that Tesla is currently dishing out can finally be used towards the purchase of an FSD subscription.

Christmas is coming early for current owners of Hyundai electric vehicle in the US, as the automaker will compensate them for the fact that they don't have a built-in NACS port like its 2025 Ioniq 5.

Tesla already uses a higher resolution display on the Cybertruck, and its QHD pixel count will reportedly bless the new screen of the upcoming Model Y Juniper facelift, too.

Not just the Tesla Model S, but premium electric sedans like the Porsche Taycan or the Lucid Air line have little on the new NIO ET9, and its price shows it.

Tesla's Cybercab features a plethora of controversial design choices, all the way from its wheels, to its dihedral door mechanism. The company's chief designer has now shed light on the reasoning behind one such aspect of the car — its color.

Tesla is preparing to launch the Cybercab ride-share service next year when its unsupervised FSD gets approved by regulators, and has started with training first responders.