CATL chief: solid-state batteries at ‘level 4 of 9,’ no leap until 2030
CATL chief: solid-state batteries at ‘level 4 of 9,’ no leap until 2030

Robin Zeng Yuqun, the founder and chairman of CATL, the world’s largest EV battery maker, just poured cold water on the solid-state battery hype, saying the much-anticipated technology is only at “level four” of a nine-step readiness scale.
Speaking at…

Colombia announces 750 mile electric truck corridor linking Bogotá to Cartagena
Colombia announces 750 mile electric truck corridor linking Bogotá to Cartagena

In a major win for Latin American air quality, the new 750 mile Ruta-E electric truck corridor will connect Bogotá and Cartagena with charging infrastructure built to support the more than 1,000 commercial EVs set to hit Colombia’s roads by 2032.

BYD’s Great Tang eSUV offers 10-minute charging and a 590-mile range starting at $40,000

The BYD Great Tang just broke BYD’s own preorder record with 150,000 orders, and the specs explain exactly why.

Rivian CEO signals self-driving prices, like Tesla’s, will fall
Rivian CEO signals self-driving prices, like Tesla’s, will fall

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says the money automakers charge for self-driving software won’t last, comparing autonomy to airbags: a paid option today, baked into the price of every car tomorrow.
The comments, made in a new interview with WIRED, amount to a …

BYD is bringing its 5-min ‘Flash’ electric car charging to Canada
BYD is bringing its 5-min ‘Flash’ electric car charging to Canada

BYD is preparing to bring its megawatt “Flash Charging” network, which can add about 250 miles (400 km) of range in 5 minutes, to Canada – the first confirmed deployment in North America.

The plan was revealed through a new BYD job posting in Toront…

BYD is deploying 2.4x more charging power per month than Tesla
BYD is deploying 2.4x more charging power per month than Tesla

BYD is building a charging network that makes Tesla’s Supercharger look slow — and it’s deploying it at a pace that could see it surpass Tesla’s global network within two to three years.

The Chinese automaker has already deployed over 5,700 Flash Ch…

BYD threatens to sue Trump administration over Pentagon military list
BYD threatens to sue Trump administration over Pentagon military list

BYD is threatening to sue the US government after the Pentagon added the world’s largest EV maker to its list of “Chinese military companies” this week.

Stella Li, BYD’s executive vice-president, said the company will use every legal “weapon” at its…

Pentagon says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and Unitree support China’s military

The Trump administration released the updated version of the list four months ago and then quickly pulled it without explaining why

Watch a BYD electric sedan do a full tank turn in a hilariously tight space
Watch a BYD electric sedan do a full tank turn in a hilariously tight space

A viral video racking up hundreds of thousands of views shows a BYD electric sedan performing a tank turn in an impossibly narrow space between barriers.

It’s a striking demonstration of what independent electric motors and smart torque vectoring ca…

BYD says its cast aluminum frame is lighter, tougher, and safer than steel
BYD says its cast aluminum frame is lighter, tougher, and safer than steel

If you’re from Pittsburgh, you may want to sit down for this one: global EV sales leader BYD claims the aluminum frame that underpins its new Yangwang U8L SUV passes a brutal, 12 ton lift test – despite weighing over 100 lbs. less than a comparable ste…