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An electric air taxi just hauled a single pilot across a major U.S. city center for the first time — a battery-powered aircraft built to leapfrog rush-hour gridlock

Tesla just pulled past BYD on quarterly pure-EV deliveries by 47,000 cars — reclaiming the global BEV crown in Q1 even as its European sales slumped

Ford just opened early talks with BYD to source batteries for its next hybrid lineup — the U.S. automaker quietly knocking on the door of its biggest Chinese rival

An electric air taxi just completed its first piloted flight across a major city — a battery-powered aircraft built to leapfrog rush-hour gridlock above the streets

China’s Ganfeng Lithium just began producing the world’s first 10-amp-hour solid-state battery — hitting 500 watt-hours per kilogram, roughly double today’s best EV packs

China’s FAW Group just installed a 142 kWh semi-solid-state battery in a production car — unlocking more than 620 miles of range on a single charge

A new cargo ship just crossed the Atlantic with towering wing-sails doing most of the work — slashing fuel burn 40% and pointing the way past bunker-oil engines

Toyota just topped Consumer Reports’ reliability rankings for the fifth year running — and Lexus locked in second as Detroit’s Big Three slid down the table

Ford’s Maverick just took the top spot in Consumer Reports’ small pickup rankings — and the F-150 cracked the full-size truck list for the first time in years

The 2026 Lexus GX just locked in the highest predicted reliability rating in its class — a body-on-frame beast built to outlast almost every midsize SUV on the road

Tesla’s unsupervised robotaxi fleet just shrank to 20 vehicles across Texas — Musk himself telling investors safety validation is what’s slowing the rollout

Ford’s Maverick just took the top spot in Consumer Reports’ small pickup rankings — and the F-150 cracked the full-size truck list for the first time in years

Tesla’s unsupervised robotaxi fleet just shrank to 20 vehicles across Texas — Musk himself telling investors safety validation is what’s slowing the rollout

An electric air taxi just completed its first piloted flight across a major city — a battery-powered aircraft built to leapfrog rush-hour gridlock above the streets

Tesla just began Cybercab production in Texas — the company targeting hundreds of driverless robotaxis a week as its existing fleet suddenly shrinks

MG just started mass-producing semi-solid-state EV batteries — the first carmaker to push the next-generation chemistry past the lab and into showrooms

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