Another Chip Shortage Could Disrupt The Auto Industry We also discuss why BYD’s profits are shrinking and how Volvo turned back on its EV promises. InsideEVs · Oct 31, 2025
The Self-Driving Race Is Fully Back On This week on the Plugged-In Podcast: news from Slate Auto, Lucid, and Nvidia. Plus an electric Toyota Corolla is coming. InsideEVs · Oct 31, 2025
This Toyota bZ Is Anything But Boring It’s six inches lower than the standard electric crossover, and the power output has been upped by a fair bit. InsideEVs · Oct 31, 2025
The Tesla Cybertruck’s Glued-On Lightbars Are Falling Off, So Here Comes Another Recall Tesla is recalling over 6,000 trucks after it received more than 600 warranty claims about detaching off-road lightbars. InsideEVs · Oct 31, 2025
Ford Owners: Your Phone App Just Got A Lot Better The redesigned app makes it easier to access the climate settings, and there’s an upgraded charging screen. InsideEVs · Oct 31, 2025
Affordable Kia EV4 Sedan 'Delayed Until Further Notice' In The U.S. What could have been Kia's Tesla Model 3 fighter is no longer coming to America—at least for now. And tariffs may be to blame. InsideEVs · Oct 30, 2025
Elon Musk Mocked The AWS Outage. Then My Tesla App Stopped Working The Tesla Supercharger network, America’s most reliable EV charging system, ran into some headaches when Amazon Web Services went down. InsideEVs · Oct 30, 2025
The Lexus LS Is Dead. It Could Return As An Electric Crossover Lexus just revealed a large, coupe-like electric SUV concept wearing an LS badge that may show the way forward for the flagship nameplate. InsideEVs · Oct 30, 2025
The Layoffs Are Coming To The EV Sector. Here's What It Means Today on Critical Materials: General Motors lays off 3,300 EV workers, South Korea strikes a tariff deal, and Stellantis gets into robotaxis. InsideEVs · Oct 30, 2025
‘Everything's On A Screen’: Here’s Why Scout’s New Cars Will Have Good-Old Buttons Scout Motors’ CEO hates that “everything’s eight layers down.” Here’s how he plans to change that. InsideEVs · Oct 30, 2025
Scout Motors Has 130,000 Reservations. Nearly All Want The Gas Engine However, the reborn automaker’s CEO is adamant that the future is still electric. InsideEVs · Oct 30, 2025
Tesla Cybertruck Police Cars Are Here, And Of Course They're Going To Vegas First Is it a sign of a dystopian future or just an angular police car packed with extra tech? You be the judge. InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025
Japan Just Showed Off The Future Of Cars—Minus One Crucial Detail Two years after an EV tour de force, 2025's Tokyo Motor Show has a certain vibe: the future of cars is coming, but what powers it will be a mystery. InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025
Kia's Funky PV5 Electric Van Blew Past Its Official Range—With A Full Load The Volkswagen ID. Buzz’s arch nemesis set a new range record while carrying the maximum payload. InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025
InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025 Toyota Bet Right On Hybrids. Its Timing On EVs May Pay Off Next Plus, China's getting ready to pull the plug on EV subsidies, and Rivian says it's not ready to tap a U.S. government loan yet.
InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025 The Subaru STI Enters The Electric Age Subaru's new STI concept from the Japan Mobility Show exudes aggression from every angle—and looks as good as you think an electric STI should.
InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025 Honda’s Tiny EV Hot Hatch Pretends It Has A Gas Engine Honda has revealed the Super One Prototype, which previews a production electric hot hatch based around a kei car, but with a widebody kit and more power.
InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025 The Mitsubishi Elevance Concept Has Four Motors And Can Power A Camping Trailer It has two in-wheel motors at the front and two regular rear drive motors that can help minimize motion sickness.
InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025 This Is Honda’s More Affordable Electric SUV The Honda 0 α is a prototype previewing a new EV coming in 2027, but it won’t reach to the United States. It's mainly for Japan and India.
InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025 Mazda’s X-Coupe Concept Looks Like A Modern RX-8 With A Plug-In Hybrid Rotary Mazda said the striking four-door show car can drive up to 99 miles on battery power alone.
InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025 The Toyota Corolla Goes Electric—And Then Some The Corolla Concept debuting at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show is a futuristic remake for the world's best-selling car with electric, hybrid or gasoline power.
InsideEVs · Oct 29, 2025 'If We Have To': Tesla Cybercab Might Come With A Steering Wheel After All Tesla board chairwoman Robyn Denholm suggested Tesla may need to equip the Cybercab with a steering wheel to appease federal regulators.
InsideEVs · Oct 28, 2025 Lucid Plans To Beat Tesla At Self-Driving Cars—With Nvidia's Help Lucid says its upcoming midsize vehicles will eventually be capable of Level 4 autonomous driving, thanks to Nvidia chips and tech.
InsideEVs · Oct 28, 2025 Lucid's New Tesla Model Y-Fighter: Here's Our Best Look Yet Lucid's new, electric midsize crossover is expected to be around $50,000 when it goes on sale next year.
InsideEVs · Oct 28, 2025 The Nissan Sakura Extending Solar Roof Could Add A Surprising Amount Of EV Range Nissan has revealed a solar-charging roof for its best-selling Sakura EV, which promises to add up to 1,860 miles of free range per year.