The Latest Breaking News from InsideEVs

The Trump administration and its allies say that cars are too expensive. These days, not many people would disagree, but the GOP's underlying target with those claims is often electric vehicles. Now, Trump's U.S. Transportation Department seems to be going after fuel economy rules that were used by the Biden administration…

Profitability. It’s what makes or breaks car startups, and Rivian is no stranger to this concept. The maker of the excellent R1S and R1T EVs turned a gross profit for the second quarter in a row at the beginning of this year, but that’s not enough.

It’s official. Hyundai has done it again.

Japan’s Honda Motor will scale back its investment in the next generation of electric vehicles and car software by 30% due to slowing demand. At the same time, the automaker will expedite the launch of more hybrid models.

Until now, the Lexus RZ has been kind of like a golf cart: often found in fancy California gated communities, and seldom driven far, because it can't drive that far anyway. This didn't exactly endear it to critics or even many Lexus fans, especially as the luxury brand's competitors started…

The show is pretty much over for Nikola Motors. After a tumultuous few years, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this February. It's selling off assets to try to satisfy its creditors, so the business is all but dead. Yet if you want a Nikola hydrogen truck, you aren't…

It seemed like just yesterday when we were celebrating the return of rear-wheel drive to mainstream cars, thanks to the EV revolution. Front-wheel drive was always a compromise that balanced packaging, manufacturing and cost—and that many enthusiasts lamented.

BMW is not having a good time. Like other German automakers, its sales are collapsing in China, and the rest of the world can't make up for that lost profit.

We’ve known about Volkswagen’s plan to make fun-to-drive electric GTI hot hatches, but it seems the manufacturer’s plan extends beyond making hot variants of the ID.2 (Polo equivalent) and next-gen electric Golf. And they should stay mostly front-wheel-drive. 

China's mining industry has slapped the proverbial glove in the face of Western mining companies by deploying what it calls the world’s first fleet of unmanned electric mining trucks. No fewer than 100 driverless battery-powered trucks are already roaming Inner Mongolia’s Yimin open-pit mine, saving thousands of tons of carbon…

Of all the so-called "legacy" automakers, it seems lately as if General Motors is pulling off the electric transition better than most.