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Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing

Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Global’s figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and nobody selling software-defined vehicles will say they last that long. Sam Fiorani forecasts vehicles for AutoForecastSolutions, and he gave the […]

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EV prices rose for the first time in 2026, and the discounts are why

The average US electric vehicle sold for $56,126 in July, up 1.6% on a year earlier and the first rise of 2026, according to Kelley Blue Book. Automakers cut EV incentives by 24.3% year on year after pulling models and shrinking supply. The average electric car in the United States sold for $56,126 in July. […]

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Pony.ai and Uber to put more than 2,000 Chinese robotaxis on European streets

Pony.ai and Uber have expanded their partnership to put more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, a deal that hands one of China’s autonomous-driving champions a route onto the continent’s streets through an American app and a scattering of local fleet owners. The arrangement is divided as Pony.ai supplies the Level 4 self-driving technology and […]

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GM and LG restart Ohio battery production after seven idle months

Ultium Cells, the GM and LG Energy Solution joint venture, restarts EV battery cell production in Warren, Ohio next week after a seven-month shutdown, with about 1,400 workers. US EV sales rose 14.2% in the second quarter but remain 20.5% below a year earlier. The battery plant that GM and LG idled in January is […]

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Volkswagen can build a $17,175 car. Just not in Europe

Start with the Volkswagen, because it is the one that should give Europe pause. SAIC Volkswagen, the joint venture with China’s state-owned SAIC Motor, opened preorders for the ID. Era 5S saloon this week. The introductory price is 115,900 yuan, which Digital Trends converts to about $17,175. The car goes on sale in China on […]

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Jaguar gives the first look inside its all-electric Type 01

Jaguar has published the first interior images of the Type 01, the electric grand tourer that will end a two-year gap in which it stopped selling new cars in the UK. The car is revealed in New York on October 6, after a delay from late 2025 and an expected price of around £100,000. Jaguar […]

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Electric cars just hit a record share of China’s market. Their sales still fell

New energy vehicles took a record 65.1% of Chinese passenger car sales in July, but NEV volumes fell about 2% year on year, a seventh straight monthly decline, while the total market dropped 18%. Geely’s Xingyuan was the bestseller and BYD’s best performer managed only fifth over six months. Electric and hybrid cars took 65.1% […]

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Tesla recalls 20,349 cars after NHTSA rejects its headlight defence

Tesla is recalling 20,349 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles whose low beams exceed the federal photometric limit, after NHTSA rejected its argument that the defect was inconsequential. Tesla says a remedy is still under development, and owners are due to be notified by September 15. Tesla is recalling 20,349 cars because their headlights are […]

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Joby is buying a stealth-technology firm for $500m, and rebuilding its defence arm around it

Joby Aviation has agreed to buy Resonant Sciences, a Dayton, Ohio radar and low-observability specialist, for about $500m, in the largest acquisition the electric air taxi company has made and the clearest signal yet of where it expects its near-term revenue to come from. The structure is $450m in cash and roughly $50m in Joby […]

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Tesla emptied its share of California’s new EV rebate in five days

Tesla exhausted its share of California’s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of California’s new first-time buyer rebate in five days. The MyFirstEV scheme opened this month, and Tesla started […]

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