#electric-vehicles

#electric-vehicles

Though the benefit technically ended for solo drivers a few months ago, the Department of Motor Vehicles offered a 60-day grace period that ended Monday. Now, solo drivers face fines of up to $490. With this, most carpool lanes require vehicles with more than two people. Here is what to know: How many people are affected? As of Aug. 14, more than half a million motorists statewide had an active decal on their vehicle to access carpool lanes.

Sometimes in life, you can do everything right and still not come out on top. Take the Kia EV6, for example. It really deserves to be a bigger hit than it's been. Here's a competitively priced electric vehicle with around 300 miles of range, solid performance, striking looks, decent practicality, and some of the best fast-charging performance you can get under $100,000. Yet it hasn't exactly lit up the sales charts.

Running a fleet-based business in the UK was always financially challenging. But with Reeves' budget changes and the risks of operating somewhere like the capital, things have never been more difficult. With so many rules and regulations, it's almost impossible to thrive in an environment like this. Fortunately, strategies for success are still available. Many fleet-based businesses continue to operate in spite of the challenges they face.

No car company wants to admit this now because it's become a marketing turn-off for half the country, but electric vehicles are supposed to be about saving the planet. They're supposed to be about moving transportation past gasoline, toward a future powered by sustainable energy. Cutting back on pollution from one of its biggest sources, which is personal transportation. It's hard to justify any of that in the Cadillac Escalade IQ:

It is good news the electric car grant is getting topped up and that the Treasury realised they had not allocated enough to it in the first place. Having said that, the policy around EVs is really confused. You can't incentivise people to get EVs while also floating the idea of pay-per-mile chargers. Prospective buyers feel like they are being green-lit to buy a new car and then immediately met with a stop sign in the form of a pay-per-mile tax.

The European-American carmaker conglomerate has struggled with declining sales, soaring prices, quality issues, rampant infighting and a culture reportedly so miserable that both labor unions and car dealers high-fived each other when its CEO was ousted last year. Amid a trans-Atlantic blame game over what went wrong, another theme kept coming up: overly aggressive investments in electric vehicles while its Jeep, Dodge and Ram loyalists remained firmly attached to gasoline models.

But one year later, the tax credit is gone, the EV9 GT is postponed indefinitely, and the EV6 is, seemingly, the one EV that didn't set a sales record in the second quarter, even as buyers rushed to claim tax credits. And as a South Korean company, Kia has been vulnerable to new tariffs. The car market is now very different from what it was a year ago. But Kia's competency in all three powertrain types means that it can lean into choice, executives said.

Chancellors of the exchequer have long resisted any form of road pricing as politically toxic. That may be about to change next week: Rachel Reeves, perhaps inured to being pilloried for any money-raising proposal, is expected to introduce a charge explicitly linked to how far EVs drive. The Treasury has all but confirmed some kind of charge will be announced at next week's budget,

A compact Chinese electric hatchback has the highest occupant safety score in Euro NCAP history. It adds to the growing list of very safe Chinese cars available in Europe. All four Chinese cars recently tested by Euro NCAP got the maximum five-star rating, while European cars from BMW or VW got four stars. Chinese cars were once notorious for their terrible safety ratings. But things have changed.

Electric cars are becoming a familiar sight across the UK, as more and more businesses are embracing this new, greener way of transport. And with schemes like salary sacrifice and relief at source, it's become easier than ever to take a step into the future. Rising living costs mean that both employers and employees are likely looking for options that reduce their expenses, while still enjoying comfort and practicality. Many drivers also want to reduce their everyday running costs, since petrol prices continue to fluctuate

Xiaomi has published its Q3 2025 financial report and the numbers are glowing - this is the fourth consecutive quarter with more than CNY 100 billion in revenue. Xiaomi's smartphone business is well established at this point and it continues to perform - the company shipped 43.3 million units globally, which marks the 9th consecutive quarter of growth. Globally, Xiaomi is in the Top 3 and it is #2 in China.

After years of being dogged by a poor stock price, Ford Motor Co. ( NYSE: F) shares are up 32% this year, compared to 14% for the S&P 500. And the stock has a yield of 4.6%. Ford's earnings were fine, neither disappointing nor spectacular. Revenue rose 9% to $50.5 billion. Per share earnings increased from $o.22 to $0.60. Although Ford has set a recall record this year that may never be broken, the talk about warranty damage to the bottom line has quieted down.

You've seen it on social media: "This $15,000 Chinese EV will DESTROY the auto industry!!" In fact, 2025 was to be the year when electric vehicles reached global price parity with gasoline cars in their segments: They'd cost the same, regardless of whether they had an engine or a battery with electric motors. In North America, that didn't happen. As US vehicle prices continue to soar, it begs the question: When will the US get EVs that are more affordable, as cheap as gas cars,

The great EV retreat continues as more and more automakers are pulling investments out of the battery race in favor of classic petroleum. Its latest victim? Subaru. The maker of damn near every car in Vermont plans to scale back its investments in EVs in favor of both hybrids and combustion-powered cars due to shrinking demand and America's brutal automotive tariffs.

very much the champion of the consumer.

The family of Quentin Willson, television presenter and producer, motoring journalist, author, and campaigner, wish to announce that he passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Saturday 8th November, following a short battle with lung cancer. He was 68. A true national treasure, Quentin brought the joy of motoring, from combustion to electric, into our living rooms. He helped shape the original Top Gear as one of its first hosts, working alongside Jeremy Clarkson and the team who took the pioneering show global.

Let's begin with a birds-eye view. Progress has been better than many imagined, but also too slow to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. By the end of 2024, on average about 13.5 percent of all the low-emissions technologies required for 2050 had been deployed. This was a few percentage points more than two years earlier. But it was also roughly half of what is needed to keep warming "well below" 2°C.