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It was standing room only in Mandalay Bay, one of CES’s satellite locations away from the main Las Vegas Convention Center area. I was late, not realizing just how far it was from my hotel, but CES’ takeover of the entire city can make travel daunting. But I should have…

The clock is ticking down on President Biden's tenure in the White House, which leaves little time for the administration to cement its clean energy legacy in American history. The Biden administration is working to make use of every last second—pushing through rules, regulations, and funding requests to minimize the…

Zeekr was founded in China in, 2021 aimed at both local rival Nio and EV juggernaut Tesla. It was conceived as a global brand, and it’s already present outside China, including in Europe. Now, it's opened European order books for its third, and largest, model, the Zeekr 7X.

How the tables have turned. Historically, Chinese cars were nothing to write home about and Chinese car companies relied heavily on know-how shared with them by Western, Japanese and Korean partners. Now, China is the world’s biggest exporter of cars and the rest of the world is scrambling to understand how…

“The average Chinese person and the average American are the same damn person,” one auto industry insider working in China told me recently. He was right, too. 

At the beginning of the year, Lotus said it would replace the Emira with a purely electric sports car before the decade's end. However, the zero-emission “Type 135” is being delayed now that the British marque has realized the transition to EVs will take longer than initially estimated. The Geely-owned…

Earlier this week, Lotus admitted it won’t go purely electric by 2028 as initially planned. The Geely brand has now shared preliminary details about how it intends to keep the gasoline engine alive. During the Q3 2024 earnings conference call, CEO Feng Qingfeng spoke highly of the so-called Hyper Hybrid…

Have you thought about how small the EV segment really is? Today, fewer than one in ten new vehicles sold in the U.S. are BEVs. Now start to think about what kind of buyer each EV attracts—you've got high-ranking execs picking up Porsches, glamping outdoorsy folk looking at Rivian and…

Geely, Zeekr, the EU, and China are all hot-button topics right now, as each entity goes through its own tumultuous re-organization to protect its own interests. Geely has merged Zeekr and Lynk Co back into one entity (sort of), while the EU demands a technology transfer from China if it…