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Text • Peter Johnson

The new Mercedes GLA EV is bigger, smarter, and has a range of over 400 miles

Mercedes-Benz gave its smallest SUV a glow-up. The new electric GLA offers more space for passengers, ultra-fast charging, and a range of over 400 miles.

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Text • Peter Johnson

The 2027 Cadillac Lyriq gains a key upgrade for $200 more

The 2027 Cadillac Lyriq is now available to order. It’s only $200 more than last year’s model, but one key upgrade may make it worth the extra cost.

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Text • Reinette LeJeune

Yozma IN 10 and IN 10 Pro electric mini dirt bikes get up to $595 exclusive savings, EGO 880 CFM blower + 2x batteries, Hiboy, more

Our headliner today is the latest Summer Sale from Yozma that is offering up to $595 exclusive savings for our readers on its IN 10 and IN 10 Pro Electric Mini Dirt Bikes that start from $1,044. We’ve also got the powerful EGO Power+ 880 CFM Cordless Electric Leaf Blower wi...

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Text • Fred Lambert

Ferrari’s $640K Luce EV sells out 2026 allocation: ~500 units

Ferrari has already sold every Luce it plans to build in 2026. The automaker’s first electric car hit its full-year sales target — just under 500 units — in less than two months, the Financial Times reported.

That’s despite a brutal wave of design criticism and a €550,000 (~$640,000) starting price that lands the EV near the top of Ferrari’s lineup.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Two solid-state EV battery leaders are joining forces to scale the ‘breakthrough’ tech

SK On and Factorial Energy announced a new alliance that will focus on bringing solid-state batteries to the masses.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Waymo adds Google’s Gemini AI assistant and new UI to Ojai robotaxi

Waymo is putting Google’s Gemini AI assistant inside its robotaxis for the first time, alongside the first major redesign of its rider interface in years.

Both features are launching in the Ojai, Waymo’s purpose-built vehicle, as the company gets ready to open the car up to more public riders.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Kia opens EV3 pre-orders in Mexico ahead of US launch

Kia opened pre-orders for the highly anticipated EV3 in Mexico, where the electric SUV will be built and shipped to the US later this year.

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Text • Micah Toll

Huffy’s kids’ e-bike makes a compelling case for pedal-assisted riding

For many parents, the idea of buying an electric bike for their kid might initially seem unnecessary. After all, didn’t we all grow up pedaling regular bikes without a motor?

But the more you look at today’s generation of young riders – and the role that e-bikes can play in getting them outside – the more compelling the argument becomes. Huffy is betting on exactly that with its Quantis Kids eBike, a 24-inch electric bicycle designed for riders aged 12 and up.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Volvo drops lidar for good on EX90 and ES90, pays owner compensation

Volvo has confirmed it’s dropping lidar for good on the EX90 and ES90, and it’s paying owners compensation for a feature they were promised but will never get.

In Norway, that payout is NOK 18,000 (about $1,900) per car, one of several market-by-market checks Volvo is writing after cutting ties with lidar supplier Luminar.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Kia’s vehicles are about to get a smart upgrade, starting in 2027

Starting next year, Kia will begin launching vehicles equipped with Hyundai’s new high-tech infotainment system.

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Text • Michelle Lewis

Vermont’s largest energy source is now a virtual power plant

Green Mountain Power’s virtual power plant (VPP) – the state’s largest energy source – cut an estimated $6 million from all customers’ peak electricity costs during Vermont’s early July heat wave.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla self-driving manager describes scary conditions in robotaxi testing

A former Tesla manager who ran the company’s “Full Self-Driving” test fleet in Houston says the operation was so understaffed that its cars became “rolling hazards on public streets,” according to a lawsuit.

The manager, Javier Medrano, filed the wrongful-termination complaint in Houston federal court, and its contents were reported this week. He oversaw the fleet before Tesla launched its driverless “Robotaxi” in the city.

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Text • Micah Toll

You’ve heard of shared e-bikes. Now check out Veo’s new shared e-trike

If you’ve spent any time in a city with shared micromobility, you’ve probably seen fleets of rental e-bikes and e-scooters waiting on street corners. But one company is betting that the next evolution of shared transportation isn’t just another bike or scooter – it’s an electric trike.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Mercedes’ new GLA EV leaks a day ahead of its official debut

The GLA is the smallest, most affordable SUV Mercedes-Benz offers. Ahead of its debut on July 29, the first image of the all-new GLA EV leaked online.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Saudi Prince Alwaleed takes 5% Lucid (LCID) stake, stock jumps 25%

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has disclosed a 5% stake in Lucid Group, and the market read it as a fresh vote of Saudi confidence in the cash-strapped EV maker.

Lucid (LCID) shares jumped as much as 25% on Tuesday after the filing surfaced, even though the disclosure itself is passive and mostly a technical formality.

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Text • Reinette LeJeune

Greenworks 80V CrossoverT riding mower with 600W turbo charger $1,200 off, Camplux 3.5kW to 27kW water heaters, more

Our Tuesday Green Deals this week are all about home maintenance and improvements, led by the $1,200 savings on Greenworks’ 80V CrossoverT 30-inch Cordless Electric Riding Mower that comes with 4x 6.0Ah batteries and a 600W turbo wall charger at a new $2,500 low. Next, we h...

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Text • Fred Lambert

Baidu’s Apollo Go begins London robotaxi testing with Uber and Lyft

Baidu’s Apollo Go started robotaxi road testing in London today, and it’s doing it with both of ride-hailing’s biggest names at once — Uber and Freenow by Lyft.

The launch lands days after Apollo Go ran the first fully driverless trial in any right-hand-drive market, in Hong Kong. Two milestones in one week, on opposite ends of the world.

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Text • Peter Johnson

BMW ramps up iX3 output as orders near 100,000

The new BMW iX3 has already received nearly 100,000 orders. Now, BMW is ramping up production at a record pace to meet the strong demand.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla buys 90% of a 509 MW Arizona solar and storage project

Tesla has signed a long-term deal to buy 90% of the output of Project Sterling, a big solar and battery plant going up in Arizona.

The project pairs 509 MW of solar with a 360 MW battery, and it’s being built by ContourGlobal, the power producer owned by private equity firm KKR. It’s expected online in 2028.

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Text • Peter Johnson

BYD launches the ‘world’s first’ SDV kei EV, starting at just $13,000

The Racco went on sale as the “world’s first SDV-based” light EV, BYD said, with a low starting price of around $13,000.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Mitsubishi’s ‘all-new’ Eclipse Sportback EV is a rebadged Nissan Leaf

Mitsubishi is bringing a fully electric vehicle back to North America for the first time in over a decade, and it’s calling the 2027 Eclipse Sportback EV “all-new.”

It isn’t. The Eclipse Sportback is a rebadged next-generation Nissan Leaf, sourced from Mitsubishi’s Alliance partner and reskinned with new bumpers and lights.

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Text • Micah Toll

Yamaha is preparing to launch another electric scooter, design filings show

Yamaha may not have found runaway success with its previous electric scooters, but new design filings suggest the company isn’t giving up on battery-powered two-wheelers just yet.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla buys the entire output of a new 140 MW Texas solar farm

Tesla has signed a long-term power purchase agreement to buy the entire output of a 140-MWac solar farm being built in northeast Texas.

The plant, called Lumen Farm, is being developed by Zelestra, an EQT-backed renewable developer. Construction is expected to start in 2027, with the farm going online in 2029.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla sues Cybertruck supplier amid standoff keeping production hostage

Tesla is asking a federal judge for emergency access to a supplier’s plant in Troy, Texas, so it can haul out the tooling it needs to keep building the Cybertruck.

The supplier, Angstrom Automotive Group, is closing the plant and won’t let Tesla in. Tesla says that without those dies, several thousand Cybertrucks already committed to customers don’t get built.

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Text • Jo Borrás

E-quipment highlight: SANY SKT145Ei cabless, autonomous haul truck [video]

It’s not just capable of driverless operation, the SANY SKT145Ei doesn’t even have a place for the driver to sit! The company’s latest all-electric heavy haul truck ditches the driver’s cab in favor of a millimeter-wave radar-guided sensor suite on a purpose-built architecture that hints at the future of zero emission mining.

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Text • Jo Borrás

Forget what you read on Facebook: 94% of EV drivers won’t go back to gas

On today’s episode of Quick Charge, the audio is sketchy but the math is absolutely rock solid with 94% of current EV owners saying they’ll NEVER go back to driving an antiquated gas guzzler. CDK’s David Thomas walks us through the findings.

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Text • Fred Lambert

BMW is finally making the electric convertible we’ve been waiting for

BMW is planning an all-electric i4 Convertible for 2028, according to a new report from BMWBLOG citing sources close to the automaker.

That would make it one of a small handful of electric convertibles anywhere in the world. Right now, you can buy exactly one new EV convertible in the US, and it starts at $206,095.

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Text • Michelle Lewis

Now Bojangles wants EV drivers to fast charge while they eat

Southern fast-food chain Bojangles is getting into EV charging, debuting its first DC fast-charging station in Savannah, Georgia – and dozens more are following.

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Text • Michelle Lewis

Meta is backing 10 gas plants to power data centers – and just quit a global renewables pledge

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has quit RE100, the global corporate initiative whose members commit to using 100% renewable electricity. That’s because Meta is bankrolling a fleet of new gas-fired power plants to fuel its expanding AI data centers.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Kia’s next electric van is hard to miss on the road [Video]

The PV5 has turned into a bigger hit than even Kia expected. Now Kia’s next electric van, the PV7, is almost ready to make its “big” debut.