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Text • Jo Borrás

DeLorean may have a flying car in the air before Tesla does [video]

Your eyes do not deceive you, dear readers – the iconic, stainless-steel bodied and gullwing-doored sportscar brand DeLorean is not only somehow still alive, but they apparently have enough money to campaign a DeLorean-branded eVTOL in the new Airspeeder racing series.

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Text • Peter Johnson

BMW’s new flagship i7 makes a great chauffeur vehicle [Images]

BMW overhauled its flagship i7 electric sedan. Now, it wants you to use it as a chauffeur vehicle.

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Text • Jo Borrás

Prinoth is getting charged up for winter with a little help from Scania

The winter equipment experts at Prinoth are partnering with Swedish trucking group SCANIA on a pair of new, battery-electric snow groomers that are ready to hit Europe’s ski slopes with up to 624 kWh of battery power all winter long.

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Text • Jo Borrás

Orange is the new green as University of Tennessee electrifies its garbage fleet

Orange is the new green at the University of Tennessee, which deployed a new McNeilus Volterra ZFL electric garbage truck at its Knoxville campus this week, bringing together advanced, battery-electric waste collection technology and Made-in-Tennessee manufacturing.

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Text • Reinette LeJeune

Lectric XPress Lite e-bike $1,099 + XPress2 FREE $336 bundle, EcoFlow 572Wh RIVER 3 Max new $303 low, snow blower lows, more

Our midweek Green Deals edition is being led by Lectric’s newest 46-pound Xpress Lite e-bike that just launched at $1,099, which coincides with the bundle for $336 in FREE gear on the XPress2 Cruiser/Commuter e-bikes at $1,299 continuing over from the Better-Than-Prime sale...

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Text • Peter Johnson

BYD reveals the updated Seagull EV will launch next week

BYD will launch the updated Seagull next week, its popular EV that sells for around $10,000 in China.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Volvo’s new midsize electric SUV is here, but it may be hard to get your hands on one

Volvo is already calling the EX60 a “game changer” as its highest-range, fastest-charging EV to date. After delaying US deliveries, Volvo’s new midsize electric SUV will remain limited, at least for now.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla Powerwalls supply most of record 745 MW California grid dispatch

Tesla Powerwalls did most of the heavy lifting as California’s home batteries set a new grid record last week. On October 6, more than 85,000 Powerwall owners sent over 600 MW to the grid, the bulk of a combined 745 MW dispatch that Sunrun announced today.

That’s 28% more than the 580 MW record the two companies set less than a month ago. And it’s bigger than most gas peaker plants in the state.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Ford opens preorder invites for the $30,000 Fathom EV pickup

Want to be among the first to own Ford’s new EV pickup? You can now sign up for a preorder invite for the upcoming $30,000 Ford Fathom.

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Text • Micah Toll

The world record for the longest electric motorcycle ride has just been obliterated

The world record for the longest journey on an electric motorcycle on a single charge has just been absolutely demolished.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla is unveiling the new Roadster for real this time, promise

Tesla says it will finally stream its next-generation Roadster event this Thursday, October 15, at 7:55 pm Central, two weeks after it was supposed to happen.

It’s the latest date in a long list of them. Tesla first showed the Roadster in November 2017 and promised production in 2020. Nearly nine years later, it hasn’t delivered a single one.

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Text • Michelle Lewis

Electric cars saved $20B in oil – and the US is falling behind

EVs are giving oil-importing countries some breathing room during the Hormuz energy crisis. Between March and August, their EV fleets displaced an estimated $20 billion worth of crude oil, according to new analysis from energy think tank Ember.

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Text • Peter Johnson

The BMW i3 is nearly $80 less a month to lease than the new iX3, but it’s the same price

The 2027 BMW i3 and iX3 start at $61,500, but the electric sedan is nearly $80 less a month to lease.

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Text • Michelle Lewis

EVs cost less than a year ago, but September brought a setback

New EVs still cost less than they did a year ago, but September brought buyers a double hit: higher prices and smaller discounts.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Rivian’s Mind Robotics snags Doug Field, ex-Tesla and Ford EV chief

Doug Field, the engineer who ran Tesla’s Model 3 program and later Ford’s entire EV operation, is now president of Mind Robotics, the industrial robotics startup Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spun out of Rivian last year.

He lands at a company that has now raised more than $1 billion in under a year, and he’ll run product, engineering, and operations alongside Scaringe.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Chevy hikes Blazer EV prices, pushing it over $45,000

Prices for the 2027 Chevy Blazer EV now start at over $45,000 after another price hike.

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Text • Reinette LeJeune

EcoFlow early-bird TITAN series whole-home backup system deal, Mars 3.0 e-bike at new $1,099 low, Anker solar wall light cam, more

EcoFlow is dominating our Tuesday Green Deals edition this week, as the brand is offering an early-bird $50 “lock in” deposit for its latest TITAN Series Whole-Home Backup System that will be officially launched in November. Right behind that is the latest 48-hour flash sal...

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Text • Peter Johnson

BMW’s new iX1 looks like a baby iX3 [Images]

BMW’s entry-level EV was spotted testing with a Neue Klasse design that looks more like the new iX3, just smaller.

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Text • Peter Johnson

BYD launches luxury Han EV with more than 1,000 km of range, starting at $35,000

BYD’s latest flagship EV, the Great Han, is now on sale in China, starting at about $35,000 with a CLTC range of over 1,000 km (621 miles).

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla’s China business is flipping: sales down 12%, exports double

Tesla sold 381,088 cars to Chinese buyers through the first nine months of 2026, down 11.9% from last year, according to CPCA data. Over the same period, Giga Shanghai’s exports more than doubled to 361,972 vehicles.

Nearly half of what Tesla builds in China now leaves China. And Beijing just announced it will cut the tax rebate on EV exports next year.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Volkswagen’s new ID. Buzz will be more affordable, and it’s bringing ‘lots of secret sauce’

The electric minibus is getting an overhaul. Volkswagen said a new ID. Buzz is in the works, bringing much more than just a lower price tag.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla pauses Model 3 orders in Canada amid China EV quota

Tesla has stopped taking orders for the Model 3 Premium in Canada, the Shanghai-built trim that brought the electric sedan down to $39,490 CAD. The automaker says it has used up its import quota for Chinese-made EVs and doesn’t expect to reopen orders until March 2027.

But the Canadian government’s own tracker tells a different story: 33,069 of the 49,000 permits for China-made EVs in the current quota year are still available.

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Text • Michelle Lewis

Tesla still leads US fast-charger growth – but it’s raised its prices

The US has passed 80,000 public EV fast-charging ports, and new charging stops are getting bigger and packing more power. That’s good news for drivers looking for an open stall. The price story is more mixed: Most networks are holding steady, but Tesla Supercharger costs have gone up.

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Text • Micah Toll

Lectric launches lighter, lower-cost version of its bestselling urban e-bike: Lectric XPress Lite

Lectric eBikes has spent the last several years steadily expanding from its original folding fat-tire e-bikes into just about every corner of the affordable electric bicycle market. Now the company is returning its attention to the commuter category with the new Lectric XPress Lite, a lighter and more affordable version of its popular XPress2 urban e-bike.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Ford’s electric pickup is suddenly selling like hotcakes at 50% off used

Once America’s most popular electric pickup, Ford’s F-150 Lightning is finding a second life on the used market.

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Text • Peter Johnson

These are the top 10 best-selling EVs in the US through Q3

The US electric vehicle market delivered its strongest performance in a year in the third quarter. Here are the top 10 most popular so far this year.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla ordered to pay $162,000 for Model X fire after failed ‘vandalism’ defense

Tesla told a Quebec court that car fires are “generally” caused by misuse or vandalism. The judge didn’t buy it, and Tesla Canada now has to cover the C$161,700 an insurer paid out for a Model X that burned in Montreal.

An expert report traced the fire to an electrical failure in the dashboard of the 2020 Model X, which was still under Tesla’s warranty. Tesla offered no data to support its theory, and the court called it out for that.

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Text • Reinette LeJeune

Segway GT3 superscooter $1,400 low, Anker 6,144Wh expanded F3000 power station bundle $2,118, Autel, Greenworks, GoTrax, more

We’re kicking off this week’s Green Deals with a bunch of ongoing savings from last week’s big event alongside some newer deals. Leading the group is Segway’s GT3 Electric SuperScooter down at its $1,400 low for the rest of the week, not to mention the other models in the s...

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Text • Peter Johnson

VW’s new low-cost EVs have already secured nearly 150,000 orders, but is that enough?

Shortly after launching, Volkswagen said its new Electric Urban Car Family is proving “highly popular,” with nearly 150,000 orders to date.

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Text • Jameson Dow

No single person has spent more money to harm EVs than Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent at least half a billion dollars on anti-EV political campaigns so far, with $276 million spent in just the last 3 months.

Even Tesla acknowledges that these campaigns have harmed its business, costing it billions, and has taken the extraordinary measure of asking its CEO to stop – yet he’s only accelerated his anti-EV influence in response.

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