This is the impact of networked incitement. And now every other “citizen journalist” wannabe Nick Shirley is on the ground in Washington, Ohio, and I assume elsewhere trying to break/make the next viral story. There’s potential for this to spin further out of control, hoping it doesn’t

ok so, the answer is the Xiaomi YU7. insideevs.com/news/783168/...

i meant to rank every car i’ve driven this year but i’m entirely too tired to do that

people mock the excesses of 2010s SJ activism without acknowledging they were basically right about everything

disappointing to see so many people fall for that youtube grifter’s attack on Somali people. terrifying to see that bullshit amplified by Elon Musk

There have been concerns about series hybrid efficiency, yes. Fun fact; I don’t think Geely makes a full series hybrid. It’s “EREV” models they sell are actually a series/parallel hybrid in the front of the car that can engine off driving, but the ”DHT” use the to engine drive the wheels directly.

time to get familiar with this….

will consumers understand that they need to get gas AND recharge? hell, are Chinese consumers even understanding that?

unpopular opinion: I think EV technology is just fine where it is.

I think EREVs can have drivability issues that no US market manufacturer will want to reckon with to maintain customer satisfaction en masse

i genuinely forgot how enjoyable these things are in their own special way

also i hate to sound like an old person, but Toyota needs to put the xB back in production ASAP i forgot how clumsy but likeable these things are

christmas day updates:

Anyways, I liked the EX30 Cross Country and Single Motor a lot They might be the only EVs in the US market that I‘d buy 👀 insideevs.com/reviews/7826...

cars are bout to become the equivalent of a maytag washer

lol. lmao.

China is beating the US and everyone else on vehicle electrification because they took it seriously as a matter of policy, which is precisely what we did not do... this is the entire critique I'm attempting to make here bsky.app/profile/nied...

BYD is basically pulling a walmart with some of its pricing, pressing prices down and bullying suppliers and competitors until they crack first But also it feels like prices in China all around are walking upwards. Some of the super cheap cars Ive talked about before are merely just good deals

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

The Slate's price versus practicality proposition is suspect. Two door pickups have never been desirable, and the effort and cost to make it not a two door pickup seem dubious

When I learned that a Ford Fiesta (before it died) was like $35,000 USD, while an MG MG3 (hybrid!) was about damn near $10k cheaper, I instantly understood why sales numbers looked the way they do. People are poor.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

This vehicle needs another set of doors.

i love deleting comments on LinkedIn, it’s almost more satisfying than blocking people here on bluesky

no one has any fucking money and I try to remember that lens when I am writing about the state of the car industry

"let's do the fucking news" www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

save your money and buy something else. insideevs.com/reviews/7821...

You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

Similarly, BYD's naming conventions are also terrible. There's like six different cars all about the same size (small to midsized) that have the name "Seal" Seal EV Seal 06 DM-i Seal 05 Seal 07 DM-i Seal 07 EV Seal 06 EV (which isn't the same as the Seal EV!) Seal 6 EV (Malaysia only? Idk)

Chery should just use the name "Jetour" for all of its export models. What the hell is a "Jaecoo?" or an "iCaur?" Jetour sounds nice and is easy to say.

miles are low, but no shade this one doesn’t seem to be particularly that nice it feels average bringatrailer.com/listing/2005...

reposting

can’t help but think this similar line of thinking can be used against other nations, like say, China. it’s never just about cars and tech, is it?

a lot of work for this ugly ass, weird looking van that can be seized at any time. The Zeekr 009 clears this thing. www.carscoops.com/2025/12/thes...

Personally, I think there's reason why the Tesla Model Y is still selling so well. It's a hard car to beat, and arguably most American market EVs haven't beaten it yet. But being a hard act to beat doesn't make it an EV breakthrough. Give it a look: @insideevs.com insideevs.com/features/782...

We tested every new EV to find out which ones are true breakthroughs, and which are also-rans. Welcome to the InsideEVs Breakthrough Awards 2: Electric Boogaloo.

they can’t afford the gas one, either

see: china.

i feel like american companies forget that people don’t have to give them money i can keep my damn dollars in my pocket

its just wild that Ford can’t ever seem to make money on anything that isn’t a gas-powered F-150. if we want to go there just kill everything except the F-150 and Bronco

China has achieved first-mover advantage in autonomous, connected, electric (ACE) vehicles. The US response has been tariffs and market isolation. A new CFR paper by @profdavidhart.bsky.social argues this is a trap—we need to compete, not retreat. 1/ www.cfr.org/report/compe...

I had to say it: insideevs.com/news/781900/...

right wing news is gonna have a field day with ford news and I don’t think that'll give them the stock boost or sales and profitability boost ford thinks it will

LOL insideevs.com/news/781883/...

a lot of these on-demand services have pricing models that aren’t transparent for the gig worker or the person who uses the service and I feel like no one gives a fuck anymore

GTA‘s cars were better when they weren’t as inspired from their real world counterparts, and i’ll die on that hill

iOS 26 tells me when my phone will be at 80% and i don’t like it because it reminds me too much of DC fast charging testing and I don’t want to be reminded of work

should i put this in my kitchen