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 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. 

A pickup truck is supposed to do it all. From doing the weekly shopping to dropping the kids off at school, and towing a camper across the country–it shouldn’t break a sweat. And gas pickups usually rise to the occasion.

Tesla has finally started accepting Cybertruck trade-ins, a year and a half after deliveries of the controversial electric pickup began in late 2023. However, as some owners who are looking to part ways with their stainless steel EVs discovered, depreciation hit the Cybertruck hard.