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American Honda’s CEO ‘would like to do’ the Nexera. The concept previews the automaker’s future design language on its upcoming models. The new styling will first show up on the new RDX. When Acura unveiled the Nexera earlier this month, the company said the car was nothing more than a design concept. It previews the brand’s future styling language, with the automaker having no real plans to put the car into production. But Acura isn’t totally opposed to the idea. The Nexera looks like a true sports car, with hidden lighting elements, butterfly doors, carbon fiber, and…
BYD just launched its 10,000th 1.5-megawatt Flash Charging station. This means it managed to double the size of its ultra-fast charging network in just five months. The automaker plans to hit 20,000 stations before the end of 2026. Not too long ago, BYD celebrated the rollout of its 5,000th ultra-fast Flash Charger back in April. Now—just five months later—the EV giant announced that it has doubled its charging network to a whopping 10,000 chargers across more than 300 different cities, according to a report from the Chinese news site IT Home. BYD said that this milestone makes it the Chinese automaker with…
While the doors themselves are very impressive, the engineering could be even more so. When the idea for a door system like this was first being conjured, Luc Donckerwolke, Hyundai Motor Group’s President and Chief Creative Officer, went to the company’s chairman and laid out the idea. During a roundtable with journalists, he described what was a “dark cloud” over the design team’s head, because the chairman said that the idea could only come to fruition if it was “safer than a car with a B-pillar.” I suppose that’s a fair request, but it’s certainly a tough one. “Suddenly we…
Volkswagen unveiled the first electric version of its California camper series. It’s based on the ID. Buzz van and is going on sale in Europe in both short and long wheelbase options. Americans don’t have to wait too long for their own version: the 2027 ID. Buzz Tourer. When InsideEVs Editor-in-Chief Mack Hogan reviewed the Volkswagen ID. Buzz a while back, he came away feeling like the van could’ve been so much more. It didn’t lean into that spirit of adventure that the old-school VW bus was known for, and after years of hype it wound up feeling like a…
BYD posted its first quarterly profit increase in more than a year, with second-quarter net profit rising 29.8% to 8.2 billion yuan ($1.22 billion) as a record surge in exports offset a weak Chinese market. The rebound ends four straight quarters of profit declines and reverses the 55.4% collapse BYD reported just three months earlier. The quarter turned, but the first half is still down Despite the Q2 recovery, BYD’s first-half results remain lower year-over-year. Revenue for the six months through June fell 7.13% to 344.82 billion yuan ($50.9 billion), and net profit attributable to shareholders dropped 20.54% to 12.33…
Rockland Solar. Photo: Origis Energy Including new small-scale solar, renewables’ capacity is likely to surpass natural gas by summer 2027 or sooner, according to new data just released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), and reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign. Renewables and battery storage are projected to add about 82.9 gigawatts (GW) of new generating capacity in the US by June 30, 2027, while total fossil fuel and nuclear power capacity will fall by almost 3.1 GW. Electrical generation by renewables grew 11% in H1 2026 According to the EIA’s latest “Electric Power Monthly” report (with data through…
Tesla holds its Cybercab launch event in Austin on September 3, and it’s being sold as a milestone. Here’s my prediction: it’s going to look a lot like the last time Tesla launched this car, back in October 2024. Expect a big robotaxi fleet number as the headline, a steering wheel and safety monitor finally coming out, and almost nothing that touches the one thing actually holding the program back. Prediction 1: a relaunch of a car we’ve already seen Tesla first unveiled the Cybercab at its “We, Robot” event in October 2024, the two-seater with no steering wheel, no…
Porsche’s Sonderwunsch division has previously used the idea of a Panamera Cabrio as an example of just how far its bespoke program could go. According to Alexander Fabig, the program’s head, Porsche could have considered building such a car if a customer specifically requested it. However, the Panamera Cabriolet is not an active project at Porsche today. “I often used it as an example when asked what were the limits, what we wouldn’t do, or what was possible. And for some time I used the example that we would build a Panamera Cabrio. If you are asking for it, we…
Hyundai has several new electric SUVs coming, including a new global D-segment SUV positioned slightly above the IONIQ 5. Hyundai plans to launch 100 new vehicles by 2030 “It’s a great time to be at Hyundai,” José Muñoz, Hyundai Motor Company president and CEO, said during the company’s 2026 CEO Investor Day this week. In the first half of 2026, Hyundai sold 2 million vehicles and achieved record revenue of 95.2 trillion won (about $69 billion), up 3% from the same period last year. The performance helped propel Hyundai Motor Group, including Kia and Genesis, to become the 2nd most…
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced late Friday that it is ending its partnership with Cursor, cutting off the coding tool’s access to its models on November 12. The move comes two weeks after SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor’s parent company, Anysphere, folding the popular AI coding assistant into Elon Musk’s growing SpaceXAI division. In a post on its website, OpenAI said the decision came down to trust, not technology. “We cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk’s companies violating contracts,” the company…