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Volvo is taking a page out of Tesla’s book when it comes to car insurance. The Swedish automaker is launching an optional app that monitors how a car is driven. Available on 2020-and-newer Volvos, the Safety Coach app will come up with a safety score, which could be linked to special insurance rates. Volvo is launching a new app that will monitor the driver’s behavior behind the steering wheel and come up with a safety score for the previous two weeks. That score will then be used for usage-based offers from insurance companies that have partnered with Volvo, so people…
The UK government is considering relaxing its landmark electric vehicle rules, even in the face of inflated oil prices, a recordbreaking year for temperatures and wildfires, and EV sales that are already rising fast enough to meet the government’s current target. UK’s electric vehicle targets have gone through a lot of back-and-forth over the years. They were originally set to target 100% new EV sales by 2040, but then that target was pushed forward, then back, then forward again, until eventually landing where it is right now – 80% EVs by 2030 (and the remainder hybrid), and a total ban…
Voltpost’s lamppost-mounted EV chargers are now available in New York. The startup’s pole-mounted dispensers can be found in the Village of Larchmont. More chargers are slated to go online in Yonkers and Rye. Voltpost, the American startup that wants to turn public lampposts into EV chargers, has installed its first dispensers in New York’s Westchester County. The pole-mounted chargers went online today in the Village of Larchmont, with the company claiming that it will expand coverage in Yonkers and Rye soon. The Larchmont project is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s Vehicle to Grid program.…
Photo: Honda After six straight months of year-over-year declines, the average transaction price (ATP) paid for a new EV in the US is rising again. New EVs sold for an average of $56,126 in July, according to the latest pricing report from Kelley Blue Book, a Cox Automotive brand. That’s up 1.2% from June and 1.6% from July 2025 – the first annual increase since December. Shrinking discounts are part of the reason. EV incentives averaged $6,626 in July, down 9.1% in a month and 24.3% from a year earlier. Incentives were equal to 11.8% of the average EV transaction…
With the introduction of the facelifted Porsche Macan Turbo and GTS, Porsche updated its best-selling compact luxury SUV, bringing more performance, new styling, and technology. First unveiled in 2019 (although it was not sold in the USA until 2020), the facelift Macan Turbo returned as the range’s top performance model, while the GTS made its comeback in 2020, offering daily drivability and dynamic handling. By 2022, Porsche streamlined the lineup, discontinuing the Turbo and positioning the GTS as the new flagship.Photo by Car and DriverBeneath the hood, both models received a 2.9-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine. The Macan Turbo produced 440…
A new land speed record was just set, and the vehicle that did it produced almost no harmful emissions. The JCB Hydromax just recorded an average speed of 406.320 mph at the Bonneville Salt flats, making it the fastest hydrogen-powered vehicle of any kind in history. And since it uses a hydrogen internal combustion engine, not even a smidge of CO2 was emitted during its record-breaking runs. In typical land speed record tradition, the 406 mph speed was an average of two separate runs. The first one reached 400.623 mph, while the second one was 412.135 mph, and both were…
Mercedes-Benz C-Class EV (Source: Mercedes-Benz) Global EV sales rose 9% in July, but the growth map couldn’t look more uneven. Around 1.85 million EVs were sold worldwide last month, according to new data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. That brought 2026 sales through July to 11.5 million – up 4% from the same period last year. Benchmark’s figures include battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids. “The global EV market continues to be defined by regional divergence,” said Benchmark senior EV analyst George Whitcombe. Advertisement – scroll for more content That’s putting it mildly. Europe and the Rest of the World delivered…
The Escalade is about to get even fancier. Sure, the Escalade name needs no sprucing up, as it’s one of the most popular luxury vehicles on the planet. But the electric Escalade IQ is about to enter an entirely different realm of luxury, one typically reserved for the most prestigious automakers. Cadillac is now extending the “Curated by Cadillac” program, originally created for the $400,000 Celestiq, to the Escalade IQ. With it, customers can completely tailor their car in a way no Escalade customer has ever been able to before. It’ll cost you, though. To enter the program, you have…
On today’s time-sensitive episode of Quick Charge, we revisit the idea that even a broken clock is right twice a day as we examine US President Donald Trump’s takes on electric vehicles, range anxiety, highway road signs, and why he’s absolutely right. The Donald and I don’t see eye-to-eye too often, but when he called range anxiety a disease at a Las Vegas political rally last week, he hit on something wasn’t just true – but which was at the very root of the range anxiety phenomenon: visibility. If you blinked (blunk?) and missed it, President Trump commented on the fact…
Customers might write off the Subaru Trailseeker as just a Toyota BZ Woodland ripoff. And in many ways, they’re right. It is almost identical to the Woodland in almost every way. However, in this new video from The Car Care Nut Reviews, a mechanic walks you through the Subie’s mechanical bits and finds that it’s a well-made car with a few reasons to buy it over the Toyota. On paper, the two cars are basically identical. They have the same dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrain, making 375 horsepower combined. Their batteries are the same 67 kWh packs, too, with around 280 miles of…