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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. US electric vehicle sales bounce back in Q3 2026 The “reset phase” following the expiration of the federal $7,500 tax credit last September is largely behind us, according to Stephanie Valdez Streaty, director of insights at Cox Automotive. A total of 266,630 electric vehicles were sold in the US in Q3, Kelley Blue Book estimates, up 7.7% from the second quarter, and the highest since EV sales peaked in Q3 2025. While EV…
SpaceX has put the largest satellite count it has ever published into writing, and it says that plan only works if every other operator in orbit starts sharing what it knows. In a new Space Safety page highlighted Tuesday morning by Sawyer Merritt on X, SpaceX said it “plans to operate up to 100,000 Starlink satellites and up to 1 million Starmind AI satellites to meet the growing demand for broadband and supercompute.” Starlink has a little over 11,000 satellites in orbit today, so the target alone implies roughly a ninefold expansion of the broadband network. Starmind is SpaceX’s orbital…
Chinese hybrids have boomed in Europe, skirting a high tariff on EVs. Source link
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent over 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. During Tesla’s early years, the company made a deliberate effort to remain largely nonpartisan. It would explain the benefits of its products – lower emissions, energy independence, lower energy costs and so on – but wouldn’t directly involve…
The original Fourgonette helped small businesses carry goods on the cheap. The new one screams “specialty coffee.” Source link
The number of hybrids from China being exported to Europe will be more than halved over the next four years https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ by Brad Anderson 1 hour ago This new trade deal could help the EU reduce its trade deficit by up to €14 billion. Limiting the number of hybrids exported to Europe will help protect local brands. Chinese plug-in hybrids accounted for a quarter of all units sold in the EU this year. Ever since the European Union imposed tariffs on Chinese EVs, impacted carmakers switched their focus to hybrids, exporting them en masse to the EU. Now, the EU…
Electric work trucks are earning their keep at one of Canada’s busiest container terminals, where Peterbilt’s battery-powered box vans are keeping cargo moving without the air pollution of diesel and propane. And now, they’re getting recognized for it. “Sustainability in action. We’re thrilled to congratulate our partners at GCT for winning the BC Hydro Luminaries Project of the Year,” reads the official Peterbilt copy. “Seeing our Peterbilt 520EV fuel tankers and 220EV lubrication trucks powering the largest fleet rollout of any terminal in Canada is a true testament to the hard work of everyone involved.” Port of Vancouver terminal operator…
A new defect petition accuses Tesla’s Robotaxis of speeding through active school zones, and NHTSA has opened a file to decide whether to investigate. The agency puts the affected fleet at about 1,000 vehicles, Model Y and Cybercab. It’s the third federal action aimed at Tesla’s driverless fleet in about five weeks, after an audit query and a Special Order over how the Cybercab was certified. A petition, not an investigation (yet) The Office of Defects Investigation opened the file, DP26010, on Friday, October 9, according to the agency’s opening resume. The request itself reached NHTSA on September 23 and…
No fewer than 15 next-generation hybrids are in the works, and most of them are heading to North America. Source link
Europe has spent years encouraging people to ditch cars and get around on bicycles and e-bikes instead. And in many places, it’s working. But all of those increasingly sophisticated electric bicycles have created an unexpected new problem: there aren’t nearly enough people to fix them. Europe could need to recruit a staggering 105,000 additional bicycle mechanics by 2032, according to a new report on the continent’s cycling industry. The NextGen Mechanics report, presented at the inaugural European Cycling Industries (ECI) summit in Brussels, estimates that Europe currently has around 175,000 bicycle mechanics. But Bike Europe says the industry is already…