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ThursdayOct 15, 2026 10:00 am

China Agrees to Reduce its Exports of Hybrid Vehicles to the EU

The yawning trade gap between China and the European Union has produced its first concrete diplomatic response, with European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic announcing a deal in Beijing on Friday that would reduce projected Chinese hybrid and plug-in hybrid shipments to the bloc by over half during a four-year window. Sefcovic said the agreement would put a meaningful brake on the volume of Chinese hybrid vehicles flowing into European markets, though he offered no specifics on how the curbs would be enforced. He described the outcome as a strong result for both sides, saying it would stop several million vehicles…

TuesdayOct 13, 2026 10:00 am

Europe Sees an Influx of Affordable EV Options

Europe's electric car market is undergoing a rapid democratization, with affordable models flooding showrooms just as surging fuel costs push drivers toward alternatives. Sales of battery-electric vehicles hit 1.64 million across the EU in the first eight months of 2026, marking a 45% jump on the prior year, driven by a wave of sub-$28,000 models that are reshaping who can realistically afford to switch. For the first time ever, electric vehicles pushed past pure gas models across an entire quarter in Q2 2026, capturing 22% of sales. European buyers now have access to over 150 mass-market electric models, a selection…

FridayOct 09, 2026 10:00 am

GM’s EV Sales Nosedive in Q3 2026

General Motors reported a steep slide in electric vehicle demand for the three months ending in September 2026, a slump heavy enough to weigh down the automaker's results for the quarter and for the year so far. Federal buyers lost the federal EV purchase incentive roughly twelve months ago, and the resulting drop-off looks to have landed harder than GM itself was braced for. Cadillac absorbed some of the sharpest hits within GM's lineup, with the Escalade IQL and IQ together moving just 1,604 vehicle units. The Lyriq, on the other hand, lost half its volume outright, tumbling 50.2 percent…

ThursdayOct 08, 2026 10:00 am

EV Subsidy Program in Germany Attracts 100,000 Households

Germany's electric vehicle subsidy program has drawn applications from 100,000 households since its launch, and officials are calling the pace of uptake a surprise. The Federal Ministry for the Environment confirmed the milestone in early October, noting that approvals had roughly doubled in a single month, climbing from about 50,000 in early September to 97,790 just before the threshold was crossed. Officials say the scheme is reaching the buyers it was designed to benefit. Environment Minister Carsten Schneider described the results as exceeding expectations, pointing out that leasing options and support for compact models have opened electric ownership to households…

TuesdayOct 06, 2026 10:00 am

The Prospects of an Electric Vehicle Future in the US Blur Further

A year after Congress eliminated the federal EV tax credit, America's electric vehicle market has become genuinely difficult to characterize in a single sentence. Sales briefly topped 11% of new-car purchases last September as shoppers raced the deadline, then slid hard once the incentive vanished, posting year-over-year declines in the double digits through early 2026. Since then, the market has leveled off at roughly half that pre-deadline peak, settling into the mid-single digits for most of this year. Hybrids have muddied the picture even further as American demand for them has climbed more than a quarter compared with last year. …

FridayOct 02, 2026 10:00 am

How to Optimize the Range of Your Electric Vehicle

If you own an electric car, figuring out how to maximize its efficiency is critical to optimizing the vehicle’s range. You can do this in several ways. For starters, speed does more to drain an electric vehicle's range than almost anything else a driver controls. Sustained highway speeds pull far more from the battery than stop-start city driving, where a car can recover some of that energy every time it slows down. If a long trip leaves you uncertain about reaching a charger, dropping from 100 kilometers per hour to 90 stretches your range noticeably, and cutting back further to…

ThursdayOct 01, 2026 10:00 am

Trump Announces Plans to End Biden’s EV Mandate

President Donald Trump is ending the Biden-era electric vehicle mandates, announcing revised mileage standards that he says will make new cars cheaper to buy. Manufacturers, he contends, will respond by building more vehicles in American factories. Writing online Saturday, Trump promised to "TERMINATE" what he calls a requirement to go electric imposed by his predecessor. He claimed the streamlined rules would cut waste from domestic production and leave households thousands of dollars better off. Figures for the new targets were absent from the post. The mandate label overstates what the policy does, since no federal law compels Americans to buy…

TuesdaySep 29, 2026 10:23 am

Study Finds High-Mileage EVs More Reliable Than Gas Counterparts

Secondhand electric vehicles with high mileage are proving more dependable than comparable gas-powered cars, according to new research examining nearly 50 million UK roadworthiness test results. Looking specifically at cars driven between 90,000 and the 120,000-mile mark, the failure rate for EVs came in at 16.5% against 22.1% for equivalent fossil-fuel models. That puts EVs at roughly a quarter lower risk of failing at that stage. The pattern holds past the 120,000-mile mark, with only 16% of electric vehicles failing compared to nearly a quarter of gas cars. Lower-mileage vehicles of either fuel type showed barely any gap at all.…

MondaySep 28, 2026 10:00 am

Metals Shortage Looms as EV Uptake Accelerates

A supply squeeze on the metals that power electric vehicles could be building just as global EV demand starts picking up speed again, driven in part by an unlikely source: oil price shocks tied to conflict in the Middle East. As gasoline and diesel prices climb, drivers in nations most exposed to Gulf-related supply disruptions are increasingly treating an EV purchase as an economic decision as much as an environmental one. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence data shows worldwide new energy vehicle sales climbing a modest 4% between January and August compared with the same stretch last year, though that flat-looking number…

ThursdaySep 24, 2026 10:00 am

Revenue from Fuel Tax Drops as Germans Switch to EVs

Germany's fast shift toward electric cars is starting to squeeze a revenue stream the government has counted on for decades: the tax collected every time someone fills up. As more drivers plug in instead of pulling into a gas station, officials are having to figure out how to replace billions of euros that used to flow in automatically. EV sales across the EU climbed close to 30% over the opening three months of 2025 compared with a year earlier, according to the International Energy Agency. Norway sits furthest along that curve, with electric models now representing roughly 95% of new…

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