Haye Kesteloo is the Editor in Chief and Founder of EVXL.co, where he covers all electric vehicle-related news, covering brands such as Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, Nissan and others. He fulfills a similar role at the drone news site DroneXL.co. Haye can be reached at haye @ evxl.co or @hayekesteloo.
Hyundai Motor Group has officially dethroned Volkswagen as the world’s second-most profitable automaker, CEO José Muñoz declared at a high-performance vehicle launch in France, widening the gap between the surging Korean conglomerate and Europe’s largest automaker now hemorrhaging cash. The announcement came as Volkswagen continues its catastrophic 2025, posting a €1.3 billion quarterly loss while
Plug-in hybrids have officially buried diesel in Europe’s powertrain hierarchy. For the first time in automotive history, PHEVs outsold diesel vehicles across the continent through October 2025, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. The milestone marks another grim chapter in diesel’s decade-long collapse, a downfall that began with Volkswagen’s emissions-cheat
NIO just reversed four consecutive quarters of widening losses, posting its smallest quarterly deficit since 2022 as record vehicle deliveries and aggressive cost-cutting show the Chinese EV maker may finally be finding its footing in an industry where most competitors are hemorrhaging cash. The Shanghai-based automaker reported a Q3 net loss of RMB 3.48 billion…
Tata Motors predicts India will reach EV-gasoline price parity by 2030, but the company is watching its market share get sliced in half as Tesla, VinFast, and Chinese competitors pile into one of the world’s last remaining growth markets, Bloomberg reports. The timing could not be more brutal. As China’s EV market drowns in overcapacity…
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe isn’t backing down from Tesla. He’s coming for its customers. In a wide-ranging interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Scaringe laid out an aggressive vision for his company’s future, declaring that Tesla’s dominant market position proves the EV market remains ripe for disruption. “So having a single player with nearly 50% market…
BMW is weighing the addition of range-extending engines to some of its vehicles in China, including the X5 SUV and 7-Series sedan, according to people familiar with the matter. The move would make BMW the first German automaker to embrace technology popularized by Chinese competitors like BYD and Li Auto. This isn’t innovation. It’s adaptation…
A four-year-old startup with only two vehicles just embarrassed the entire luxury EV establishment. U.S. News & World Report named Lucid Motors the Best Luxury Electric Vehicle Brand for 2025, ranking the American upstart above Tesla, Porsche, BMW, and Rivian. The recognition validates what Lucid has been claiming since its founding: engineering excellence can trump…
Tesla claimed victory on European Full Self-Driving approval. The regulator in charge says that never happened and wants Tesla fans to stop flooding its customer service lines with thank-you messages. The public contradiction exposes an unconventional pressure campaign that one autonomous driving expert called “unheard of” in regulatory history. RDW Disputes Tesla’s February 2026 Promise…
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