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GM Unveils Electric SUV With ‘Eyes-Off’ Driving
As EV demand drop begins, GM is betting on AI to spur sales
By Ece Yildirim
Published October 22, 2025

The auto giant GM announced today that it is reinvigorating its fleet with a series of new artificial intelligence and machine learning features, all expected to be rolled out within the next three years.

From a new centralized computing platform to equip all of its cars to in-vehicle conversational AI chatbots customized to your needs and preferences, GM is preparing for what it believes to be a coming AI-driven auto industry.

https://gizmodo.com/gm-unveils-electric ... 2000675536

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Toyota drops high-performance EV concept at SEMA
By Aaron Turpen
October 31, 2025
https://newatlas.com/automotive/toyota- ... tack-sema/

In an unusual move, at least for Toyota, the company has unveiled a high-performance concept electric car at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas. The Toyota bZ Time Attack Concept is what the Toyota Motorsports Garage team envisions as a BEV race car.

It's a purpose-built performance exploration, based on the 2026 all-wheel drive Toyota bZ (formerly the bZ4X).

Longbow Motors launches stunning two-seat electric sportscar
By Aaron Turpen
October 31, 2025
https://newatlas.com/automotive/longbow ... -roadster/

British startup Longbow Motors has unveiled a new electric sports car in two formats. The open top Speedster version will be limited to 150 units and a coupe-style Roadster will follow.

The people behind Longbow are all former automotive executives from companies like Lucid Motors, McLaren, and Tesla. The company formed in 2023, but didn't introduce its vehicles until this year.

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Hyundai's off-roader concept looks like an exoplanet explorer
By Abhimanyu Ghoshal
November 21, 2025
https://newatlas.com/automotive/hyundai ... ncept-suv/

I love when automakers let their designers go hog wild on concept vehicles, and Hyundai's Irvine, California-based team absolutely cooked with the Crater. It's a compact electric SUV with futuristic styling that looks like the sort of vehicle you'd deploy on a recon mission after touching down on a new planet.

The Crater's proportions, sheer fender design, and angular sculpted bodywork remind me of the Warthog from the Halo game franchise. This is likely meant to end up being smaller than a Tucson, though – and that actually might be good for its range, given its electric powertrain.

In fact, it could share its guts with the Ioniq 5, meaning it'll put out a healthy 320 hp and 446 lb.ft (605 Nm) of torque, albeit in a different state of tune than the beloved crossover for 4-wheel-drive performance. With a similar 84-kWh battery, you could look at a range of about 350 miles (570 km) on a full charge.

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EVs are ascendant — and gas cars are past their prime

Gas cars are sputtering, stuck in the slow lane — and battery-powered vehicles are gaining on them fast.

A massive shift has occurred in less than a decade. At their all-time high, in 2017, global sales of pure internal combustion vehicles hit 79.9 million units, per data from the International Energy Agency. Last year, 54.8 million internal combustion cars were sold, a 31% reduction.

Meanwhile, electric vehicles are ascendant. Nearly 11 million new EVs were sold worldwide in 2024, the vast majority in China, while consumers also bought 6.5 million plug-in hybrids — the ones with both gas engines and rechargeable batteries. Those figures represent enormous growth from just a few years ago. Back in 2017 when gas cars were at their peak, a measly 800,000 EVs and 400,000 plug-in hybrids were sold worldwide.

EVs are already more popular than fossil-fuel-guzzling vehicles in several places. And I’m not just talking about Norway. In China, the world’s largest EV manufacturer and auto sales market, around 60% of new cars sold this year will be electric. By 2030, the IEA expects that number to hit 80%.

One of those bits of news that makes you go "Holy crap we might actually make it"

Not only that but I honestly genuinely think that, outside of the USA which is currently gnawing off its own limbs, in five years we'll look back at 2025 and say "Pfft we thought THIS was impressive?" the same way we currently do to our extreme optimism for EVs, solar, and wind back in 2015
If only nuclear wasn't crippled by emotional-driven hysteria...

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France inaugurates the first section of Europe's highway that charges electric cars and buses while in motion.

Silvia Ferrer brings us all the details.

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https://cnevpost.com/2025/12/02/tesla-c ... wholesale/

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UK: "Battery electric vehicle (BEV) uptake, supported by the Electric Car Grant, rose to reach 26.4% share of the market, just ahead of the 25.1% achieved in November last year. However, with volumes rising just 3.6%, this represented the weakest month for BEV growth in almost two years."

https://www.smmt.co.uk/november-new-car ... on-demand/

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Electric Vehicle Sales are Way Down in the U.S. Here’s Why That Might Not be a Big Deal.
By Tik Root
December 3, 2025

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(Grist) Electric vehicle sales have cratered.

Across the country, dealers sold about 20 percent fewer used electric cars in October than in September and saw a staggering 50 percent drop for new ones, according to the latest data. No one was surprised. Congress voted in July to end the federal tax credits that helped consumers afford them on September 30, years before they were supposed to expire. That led to a rush of purchases before the deadline and a precipitous drop afterward.

The question now is whether this dip is a sign of a prolonged slump or a mere blip in an otherwise upward trajectory. While only time will tell, many analysts believe that electric vehicle adoption in the United States will continue to grow — albeit maybe not at the same pace seen before Congress killed the credits and automakers started second-guessing themselves.

“We’re definitely gonna see a slowdown,” said Stephanie Valdez Streaty, director of industry insights at Cox Automotive. Eliminating the federal credit of $7,500 on new EVs and $4,500 on used ones is certainly taking a toll. But the price of batteries, and thus cars, also continues to come down. Used models are becoming more of a bargain, too. As of this fall, the price gap between used EVs and their gas-powered equivalents had narrowed to just $900. In China, Valdez Streaty said, electric versions of cars often already cost less than their conventional counterparts.

“It’s not going to just stop,” she said of momentum in the United States. “It’s going to be gradual adoption, but I still think we’re going forward.”

Read more here: https://grist.org/solutions/ev-sales-a ... ig- deal/

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EU waters down plans to end new petrol and diesel car sales by 2035

16 December 2025, 17:10 GMT

The European Commission has watered down its plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2035.

Current rules state that new vehicles sold from that date should be "zero emission", but carmakers, particularly in Germany, have lobbied heavily for concessions.

Under the European Commission's new plan, 90% of new cars sold from 2035 would have to be zero-emission, rather than 100%.

According to the European carmakers association, ACEA, market demand for electric cars is currently too low, and without a change to the rules, manufacturers would risk "multi-billion euro" penalties.

The remaining 10% could be made up of conventional petrol or diesel cars, along with hybrids.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk78y7k8ezo