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Electric car sales made up 21.6% of sales in first half of 2025, only just below the effective 22% share needed to meet rules

COMMENT: The silly season discourse pinning Jaguar sales figures on a car that didn’t even exist was enough to make the eyes roll, writes Sean O’Grady – they’re simply not making cars, but there’s life in the old cat yet

Hyundai's three-row absolutely blitzes through a 10-80% charge test. It's not as quick as an Ioniq 5, but it's close.

Whether you call it the Dolphin Mini, Dolphin Surf or Seagull, BYD has moved more than a million of them.

The VLE is next year's replacement for the Mercedes EQV, which will have considerably more range than any current electric people carrier.

Subaru is conservative these days. It sticks with technologies it knows well, evolving its cars gradually over the years. Even when it does something new, it’s often long after the rest of the industry. But in the 1990s, Subaru was gloriously weird and experimental. Witness Subaru’s largely forgotten sequentially twin-turbocharged…

We partnered with Polestar to race in the 2025 Mille Miglia Green. Here's what we learned about energy consumption at the race.

The Internet hasn’t exactly been kind to the new CLA, but the World Wide Web isn’t paying Mercedes to keep the lights on. Buyers are, using their hard-earned money. The three-pointed star is happy to report that demand for its electric sedan is strong, with production chief Joerg Burzer describing…

Ferrari had its reasons for abandoning manual gearboxes after the 2012 California. Only two or three convertibles were ever sold with a stick shift, but the low take rate wasn’t the only factor behind the gated shifter’s demise. Back in 2016, former tech boss Michael Leiters explained there’s no manual…

It’s been almost three years since prototypes of the 718 EV were first caught testing. Car paparazzi initially spotted the Boxster, but it didn’t take long before the Cayman appeared in front of the camera. Although prototypes have been around for a long time, the production version remains elusive. That…

Battery electric car sales rose 34.6% in first six months of the year after strongest June for overall car sales since 2019