Kia announces high-performance EV9 GT with virtual shifting and native Tesla charging The new 2025 Kia EV9 GTKia came to the LA Auto Show with not one but two revamped electric vehicles, a sign that the South Korean automaker is still feeling bullish about its momentum in the plug-in car market. First off, the 2025 Kia EV9 GT is a performance version of its three-row SUV, which we first tested earlier this year. This one promise…

2026 Kia EV9 GT Is A 501-HP Family Hauler With An Electronically Controlled Suspension The next Kia to wear the brand’s GT performance badge might come as an unexpected surprise. Enter the 2026 EV9 GT, which will be the brand’s most powerful and capable version of its three-row electric SUV, and Kia’s first real attempt at a performance crossover. Read more…

Automakers Want Trump to Keep Federal E.V. Regulations in Place Donald J. Trump promised to erase Biden tailpipe rules that are designed to get carmakers to produce E.V.s. But Detroit wants to keep them.

Ford retracts in Europe with layoffs and lower EV production Photo by Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty ImagesFord said it would cut 4,000 jobs from its business in Europe, while also lowering production estimates for its upcoming Explorer and Capri electric vehicles. The planned cuts, which amount to 14 percent of the automaker’s European operations, will primarily affect its workers in German…

A Rope And A Milk Carton Make The Only Fake EV Sound You Need With the pivot to electric power, debates have raged for years around all kinds of aspects of electric vehicle ownership: how much range do you need? How long should it take to charge? How much should it cost? But one argument has raged fiercer than the rest: what should an electric vehicle sound like? Now, the owner… Read more…

Trump Plans To Kill The $7,500 EV Tax Credit Good morning! It’s Friday, November 15, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

2026 Cadillac Vistiq Is A 615-HP EV With A Predicted 300 Miles Of Range Cadillac continues its EV push with the introduction of a new, family sized electric SUV: the 2026 Cadillac Vistiq. The second largest Cadillac EV and the fifth overall electric model for the brand, the SUV comes across as a refreshed, more handsome version of the gas-powered XT6 but there are major design differences… Read more…

Honda Made A Small EV With 81 Miles Of Range Nearly 30 Years Ago Honda has been doing big things with alternative fuels for decades now. While models like the game changing first-gen Insight and theAccord and Civic Hybrids from the early 2000s put Honda’s electrification efforts into the mainstream public’s awareness, few may realize that Honda started down this path right before… Read more…

Suzuki teams up with Toyota on its first EV: the E Vitara Suzuki is finally making an EV. | Image: SuzukiSuzuki and Toyota have been working together on a new 4WD-capable electric SUV, and in Italy yesterday, Suzuki revealed the fruits of the collaboration: a new compact called the E Vitara. It’s the automaker’s first EV, and it’s scheduled for production at Suzuki Motor Gujarat in India starting next …

Kia’s rugged EV concepts are standouts at 2024’s SEMA conference Image: KiaThe Specialty Equipment Market Association, or SEMA, held its annual conference in Las Vegas this week. Billed as one of the biggest car shows in the world, the event typically brings together more than 135,000 attendees in the automotive aftermarket industry to see the newest trends in vehicle repairs and modifications. And while ther…

Hey Cadillac, Put The Hummer EV Motors In A Lyriq, What Are Ya, Chicken? The long and storied tradition of American hot rodding more or less boils down to “put big car motor in smaller car” and for over 70 years it’s been working like a charm. There’s no reason the old-school way of making a muscle car can’t work in the EV era, too. General Motors is finally working its way toward building… Read more…

Cadillac’s first performance EV is the Lyriq-V The 2026 Cadillac Lyriq-V | Image: CadillacCadillac is launching a new performance version of its all-electric Lyriq SUV. The new 2026 Lyriq-V, the luxury automaker’s first EV to get a V-Series badge, will come to North America, Australia, and New Zealand to start, plus other markets later. The specific launch date and pricing have not yet been …

2025 Mercedes-Benz GLC350e Is A Great Plug-In Hybrid That Made Me Wish I Was In An EV It’s now been 15 years since the first plug-in hybrids started coming on the market, and we’re finally getting PHEVs with genuinely usable electric ranges of more than just a few miles. The PHEV with the longest EV range you can buy right now is a bit surprising, partially because it’s just so… normal. Taking the… Read more…

Here’s How Much EV Range You Actually Need Telling people range anxiety isn’t real and can’t hurt you has done little to alleviate the problem. Last week we asked readers to take into account their current life and think: just how much range do they need an EV to have for it to work for their needs? These were their responses. Read more…

At $4,000, Is This 2012 Coda EV The Last Word In Value? The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Coda claims the company that built it went bankrupt because the car was “too nice.” Let’s see if this weird little electric car’s current price (see what I did there?) won’t break the bank. Read more…

Trump Presidency Will Be Bad For Every EV Maker Except Tesla, Says Musk Good morning! It’s Wednesday, July 24, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

EV Sales Are Up In The U.S. For Every Automaker But Tesla Good morning! It’s Thursday, July 18, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Rear-Wheel-Drive Porsche Macan EV Is Porsche’s First Real Hot Hatch Like its larger Cayenne sibling, every version of the Porsche Macan crossover has come with all-wheel drive as standard. That is, until now. Porsche just unveiled the base version of the new Macan Electric, and it’s rear-wheel drive. Quicker and more powerful than the base gas-powered Macan, I think this new RWD model… Read more…

Porsche fills out Macan EV lineup with rear-wheel drive models Image: PorschePorsche announced two new rear-wheel drive versions of the forthcoming Macan electric SUV, including a higher-powered, lighter-weight 4S model. Porsche said deliveries are expected to begin later this year. When it was announced earlier this year, Porsche said the Macan EV would come in two trims: the Macan 4 and the Macan Turbo, …

The EV trade war between China and the West heats up But Elon Musk’s carmaker is somehow escaping the worst of it