FAW’s Hongqi brand claims a battery that charges from 10% to 90% in under 8 minutes, joining an increasingly wild Chinese EV charging race against BYD, CATL, and Geely.
BYD has launched the Racco, its first electric kei car for Japan, offering up to 320 km of range and a starting price below the Nissan Sakura.

Australia just posted its biggest month ever for electric car sales, and for the first time seven different EVs each cleared 1,000 units in a single month.
Every one of them is either Chinese-owned or Chinese-built — and that includes the Tesla Model Y…

BYD Energy Storage has landed a contract to supply 11.275 GWh of battery storage for Masdar’s Round the Clock (RTC) project in Abu Dhabi — one of the single largest energy storage procurements ever signed.
The RTC project pairs a 5.2 GW solar array wit…
From zero-gravity seats to a 26-inch AR display and 1,660 km of PHEV range, BYD launched all of it for under $30,000 in China.

British battery-electric vehicle registrations jumped 38% in June to 64,440 units, pushing EVs to nearly 30% of the new car market — their strongest monthly performance outside seasonal peaks, according to New AutoMotive data released Friday.
The overa…

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, up 25% from the same quarter a year ago and roughly 74,000 vehicles above Wall Street’s consensus estimate.
It’s Tesla’s strongest second quarter ever and its first year-over-year delivery…

BYD delivered 557,090 fully electric vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, according to figures compiled by Bloomberg, putting the Chinese automaker back on top of the global battery-electric race.
Tesla is expected to report around 396,500 deliverie…
BYD may be building its own powerful AI chip, but it’s not abandoning outside partners just yet. That delay could make its next wave of smart driving features cheaper and easier to roll out.

Tesla released its company-compiled delivery consensus for the second quarter of 2026, and Wall Street analysts now expect the automaker to deliver 406,024 vehicles.
That would be just 5.7% growth over the 384,122 vehicles Tesla delivered in Q2 2025 — …