Aug 13, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
China sold 1.56 million new energy vehicles in July, up 23.7% on a year earlier — and the home market shrank. Retail sales of NEVs fell 3.9%, the seventh straight month of decline, while exports jumped 145%. The growth everyone quotes is happening on the docks, not in...
Aug 12, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Motorcycles
Battery swapping works. It just works for scooters, not cars. Gogoro swaps a 9 kg, 1.7 kWh scooter battery by hand in under six seconds and has done it more than 650 million times across Asia; a car pack holds forty times the energy and weighs half a tonne. That gap —...
Aug 2, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles
Geely showed the Galaxy Cruiser 700 in China in the last week of July, and in Milan on 26 July: a boxy plug-in hybrid off-roader with 830 kW, or 1,113 horsepower, from a petrol engine and three electric motors. That power figure is real and it is remarkable for the...
Aug 2, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations, Trucks
The European Union registered 4,991 battery-electric heavy trucks in all of 2025. China registered 231,100 new-energy heavy trucks — a category that is about 97% battery-electric, the remainder fuel cell. In the first half of 2026 China added another 126,200, up 85%...
Aug 1, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles
BYD’s Denza Z made its global debut at Goodwood on 9 July, four days before it went on pre-sale in China. The Coupe costs ¥680,000 at home and £142,900 in Britain — about $100,800 against $189,800 at the end of July, an 88% premium. That gap is the most...
Aug 1, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles
Leapmotor’s refreshed B01 saloon and B10 SUV went on sale in China on 16 July from ¥95,800 and ¥99,800 — about $14,100 and $14,700. The long-range versions carry an 800-volt silicon-carbide platform, peak at 210 kW on DC, and claim 670 km and 610 km on the CLTC...
