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Las Vegas Grand Prix: What it really takes to turn Las Vegas into an F1 racetrack

As the Las Vegas Grand Prix returns this weekend, November 21 to 23, few people understand what it takes to host an event of this magnitude better than Jennifer Brisman. She’s the founder and CEO of VOW, an event...

These new McLaren x Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 headphones feel as premium as they look

At a special event located in the Wynn Hotel’s McLaren store ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Bowers & Wilkins and McLaren announced their latest collaboration to celebrate a decade-long partnership – the McLaren Edition Px8 S2 Wireless...

Chery UAE Launches the TIGGO 9 Bold Edition

Chery UAE, represented by AW Rostamani Group, has announced the launch of the TIGGO 9 Bold Edition, a special-edition variant that introduces several exterior and interior design updates to the existing model. The Bold Edition features a series of cosmetic...

This custom Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost is loaded with 8-bit nostalgia

You can walk into a showroom and buy a beautifully handcrafted Rolls-Royce Ghost with relative ease. If you really want, you can add your own touches to a high degree choosing the colors and types of leathers used, the...

Zak Brown’s new book arrives just as McLaren closes in on F1 glory

It’s fitting that Penguin Publishing Group released Zak Brown’s Seven Tenths of a Second this week, just before the F1 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix. Brown is the CEO of McLaren Racing, whose Formula 1 team may wrap up...

Genesis Shows Off Magma GT Concept

Genesis unveiled the Magma GT Concept, a landmark model that defines the direction of the brand’s performance heritage for the next 10 years. Revealed for the first time at the Genesis Magma World Premiere, the concept represents far more...

Heading to the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix? Don’t skip these smart tips

As the 2025 F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix gets closer (it’s from November 20 to 22), you can improve your odds of staying comfortable and having a great time by heeding a short list of core tips from previous...

Tesla accepts charge cards as payment in Europe

Charging cards still cannot be used to charge at Supercharger stations themselves. What is new is that charging cards can now be stored as a payment method in the Tesla app. The cost of charging is then billed to...

Q3 sales boom: Xpeng approaches break-even point

The Chinese electric car manufacturer delivered exactly 116,007 vehicles between July and September, representing an increase of 149.3 per cent compared to the third quarter of 2024. At that time, Xpeng had sold 46,533 vehicles. The company has therefore...

Kempower supplies electric bus chargers to Lippe, Germany

The charging station was built on the premises of the Motzek travel service in Lage, which is east of the German city of Bielefeld. It is a standard Kempower solution consisting of spatially separated power units and charging satellites,...

Arval offers its own Arval Route Planner for fleet vehicles

The system will initially be available in Belgium, France and Austria, with Romania set to follow ‘shortly’. Other markets, including Hungary, Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, will be added by the end of 2025, Arval has announced. Expansion...

China reaches new EV records in October

1.715 million so-called New Energy Vehicles (NEVs – BEV, PHEV, EREV, and FCEV) were sold in October, an increase of 111,000 units compared with the previous record month of September 2025, representing a further rise of 6.9 per cent....

UK electric van uptake drops for first time in over a year

The latest figures show that 2,132 new battery-electric vans were registered in October, marking the first monthly decline in 13 months. The SMMT noted that “declines were recorded across all van sizes during the month.” Even with this drop,...

Lucid reports revenue growth but tightens production guidance

Lucid Group has reported third-quarter revenues of $336.6 million, representing a 68 per cent rise compared to the same period in 2024. The net loss for the quarter narrowed slightly to $978.4 million, compared to $992.5 million a year...

Top executive responsible for the Model Y programme leaves Tesla

The high turnover in Tesla’s top positions continues: Emmanuel Lamacchia, the programme manager responsible for Tesla’s top sellers, is now leaving the company. He had been with Tesla for almost eight years, most recently as head of Model Y....

CAM study shows electric cars to see significant growth in 2025

Internationally, e-mobility has been experiencing a considerable upswing so far this year. This is shown by the latest ‘Electromobility Report’ from the Centre of Automotive Management (CAM) in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. In the world regions most important to the...

Head of Tesla’s Cybertruck programme leaves the company

In a LinkedIn post, Siddhant Awasthi described his departure as “one of the hardest decisions of my life.” He wrote: “Eight years ago, when I started as an intern, I never dreamed I’d one day have the opportunity to...

UK BEV registrations surpass 2024 total

Cumulative BEV registrations for 2025 now total 386,244 units – already exceeding the full-year total for 2024, with two months remaining. BEVs currently represent 22.4% of all new cars sold in the UK in 2025, underpinned by major manufacturer...

Tesla appoints local CEO in India amid renewed market push

According to a Bloomberg report, Tesla has hired Sharad Agarwal as the CEO of its Indian subsidiary, Tesla India Motors and Energy Private Limited. Agarwal joins from Mahindra & Mahindra-owned two-wheeler company Classic Legends, where he was the Chief...

Rivian widens Q3 loss

Rivian’s net loss attributable to common stockholders widened to $1.17 billion in the third quarter, compared to $1.1 billion in the same period last year. Meanwhile, total revenue rose sharply to $1.56 billion, up 78 per cent year-on-year, driven...

Former Polestar CTO Stiegler returns to Volvo

The company did not widely publicise Stiegler’s departure from Polestar – Stiegler himself has not yet changed his employer on his LinkedIn profile and is still listed there as Chief Technical Officer at Polestar. However, Polestar lists a new...

Bosch extends CEO Hartung’s contract

A Bosch spokesperson at the company’s headquarters in Gerlingen near Stuttgart has confirmed that Hartung’s employment contract has already been extended. Unlike other companies of similar size, the conglomerate, with its important automotive supply division, is not a stock...

Slight decline in new EV registrations in Norway

Despite the decline, the Norwegian Road Information Council (OFV) remains optimistic, as 10,852 new electric cars out of 11,138 new passenger vehicles account for a market share of 97.4 per cent. The year-to-date EV share has now reached 95.2...

Tata Motors opens manned public charging stations in India

India’s refuelling network is almost entirely manned, and with its new charging stations co-developed with Voltran, TPEML is aiming to offer customers a seamless transition to EV charging with greater familiarity and the same convenience. To make the charging...

ChargePoint launches next-generation EV charging management platform

The platform incorporates AI-driven optimisation that analyses usage patterns, energy supply conditions, charging-station status and vehicle context. It can adjust charging schedules, forecast maintenance requirements and support dynamic, demand-based pricing strategies. According to the company, a waitlist function manages...
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