PPE-platform e-trons and Ingolstadt’s software reboot — Audi’s electric range, covered.
New research published in The China Journal dismantles the story Washington tells itself about China’s electric vehicle rise. Political scientists Fengming Lu and Xiao Ma argue the boom was never engineered by a Beijing master plan. It grew from alliances between ambitious second-tier city governments and private carmakers that central regulators had locked out of…
Audi revealed the Nuvolari today in Antibes, a 1,001 PS plug-in hybrid two-seater that the company calls the fastest and most powerful production vehicle in its history. The car pairs a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 with three electric motors, will be built in a run of 499 units, and reaches a top speed above 350 km/h…
Mercedes-AMG has priced its first dedicated electric car, the all-electric GT 4-Door Coupe, starting at €154,700 for the GT 55 and €196,350 for the GT 63 in Germany. Order books opened this week in Europe, and U.S. deliveries are expected to begin late this year. The GT 63 is the most powerful road-going Mercedes-AMG yet.…
BMW peeled the covers off the facelifted 7 Series and i7 today, April 22, 2026, at Auto China 2026 in Beijing, and the headline is buried underneath the usual grille-and-screen noise. The electric i7 now runs a jointly developed battery pack from Rimac Technology, using BMW’s Gen6 4695 cylindrical cells inside the outgoing car’s Gen5…
Mercedes-Benz has previewed the interior of the all-electric C-Class with EQ Technology ahead of its world debut on April 20 in South Korea. Carscoops reports the cabin is anchored by the 39.1-inch MBUX Hyperscreen first seen in the GLC EV, a multi-source heat pump Mercedes claims heats the cabin twice as fast as a combustion…
Tesla has officially detailed its Spring 2026 software update, and the feature list is longer than any single-season release in recent memory. Tesla reporter Sawyer Merritt posted the full breakdown on X on April 13, 2026 — the specific post URL was not publicly accessible at time of publication — covering twelve named changes and…
Tesla faces a $43.9 billion shift in free cash flow expectations, yet its stock remains resilient at 178x forward earnings. We break down the Q1 2026 delivery miss, the $20 billion AI capex cycle, and why the valuation disconnect is reaching a breaking point.
Lucid Motors will enter the UK market in 2027, bringing the Lucid Cosmos midsize SUV as its first right-hand drive product, Autocar reported on April 3 following an interview with Lucid European president Lawrence Hamilton. The Cosmos will launch ahead of a second model called the Earth, an off-road-focused derivative planned for 2028. Neither the…
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