Electric cars already have no tailpipe emissions, but even cleaner EVs — built with low-carbon steel, aluminium and batteries, and in a way that minimises harm to people, communities and the environment — are now within reach, according to a new ranking of the world’s largest carmakers. Crucially, this progress … [continued]
Ford is apparently now doing something very weird and yet very normal in the auto industry. One of the benefits of electric vehicles has long been their frunks. Not all EVs have one, but almost all of them do. Not needing to have a huge, clunky engine under the front … [continued]
Steve Hanley, Larry Evans, and I sat down yesterday to talk about some of the hottest stories of the past week. We discussed the Tesla Cybercab (and some of our skepticism about it being the big hit Tesla wants it to be); the slow start to EV sales in China … [continued]
The Ford Motor Company is moving forward with plans to launch an affordable electric pickup truck, pursuing a “bounty” strategy to optimize EV design.
Ford has been all over the place on electric vehicles in the past 15 years or so. Back in February 2013, it released the Ford Fusion Electric, which was basically representative of the technology at the time but was a quite weak attempt at creating an electric vehicle by electrifying … [continued]
This is quite a notable milestone that has gone under the radar! BYD delivered 4.6 million vehicles to customers in 2025. That was actually not a great result for BYD. However, it did mark BYD flying past Tesla in BEV sales, which got a lot of attention. Something that has … [continued]
An article title caught my attention today for a couple of reasons. The title of the article is: “Major Automakers Have Written Off $55 Billion After Overestimating EV Demand.” Hmm…. First of all, the thing that jumped out to me was $55 billion. That’s a lot of freakin’ money! The … [continued]
With 2025 numbers in and the more basic US EV sales reports out, now is the time for one of my favorite topics of exploration — how fast different automakers are electrifying. Yes, it just hit me that we should really do an analysis like this for global sales — … [continued]
It’s taken some time, but we’ve finally crunched the numbers for the US electric vehicle market in terms of auto brands and auto groups. (That’s full battery-electrics, not inclusive of plugin hybrids.) Here’s our report on how different auto brands and auto groups did in the EV market in 2025. … [continued]
After publishing our report on the top selling EV models in the world in December and 2025 as a whole, as well as an overall report on global EV progress, here’s our complementary report on the auto brands and groups leading EV sales around the world. Geely on the Way … [continued]
