No more listening to the public radio station that Elon helped defund during your commute!

It's Friday, and on this week's Route Zero, I'm digging into the looming hands-free driving revolution. And no, the leader in that field isn't Tesla. Great chat with @sam.abuelsamid.com about what's next in consumer autonomy: www.routezeromedia.com/p/the-surpri...

If you want our great, in-depth coverage of subjects like China, batteries, software and autonomy, from a real staff of reporters and not a click-farm network, this helps us do that. IEVs is doing well amid a challenging time for digital media and I intend to keep it that way!

Two things: 1. I've been called a lot of things in my life, but "Tesla-biased" is a first! We cover them 100x less than when I started here...

2. The Trending stuff is a company-wide initiative that brings in new readers via Google Discover. Changes are coming on the UX side that you'll see soon.

I love shooting Hyundai's Ioniq models. So many great design details to highlight, even for a clueless amateur like me. This is the Ioniq 5 XRT and it's not the trim I'd buy, but it's a super interesting and visually striking one.

Not if the seatbelts and airbags work as intended! 🙏

I'm on Team Buttons as much as anyone, but this looks rad as hell

Great report from @cablenews.bsky.social about how Volvo flubbed its software-driven reset by being married to legacy automaker tactics: “If you want to really fill the car with a lot of attractive software, it cannot be done by buying boxes from suppliers."

The artist is me, coloring a handout pic from Nuro (and I don't think that CMS lets you add photo credits? Weird.)

In retrospect, the modern EV tax credits were effective but flawed. As they come to an end, they reveal that an industry hammered by tariffs and no longer facing fuel economy rules will be slow to change course.

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“Consumer opinion has changed a little bit on BEVs. And consumer choice is dominant.” Which is easy to say when you tried making BEVs for exactly five minutes, and they weren't good.

A dive into Stellantis' gas-car comeback:

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We're all about to see who was ever serious about the future

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It's Friday, which means another edition of Route Zero. I'm digging into the hype around extended-range electric vehicles, or EREVs. Are they the answer to America's EV slowdown, or a dead-end? Subscribe for free to see who's making moves in the EREV space:

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“It’s like riding a bicycle: As long as you keep pedaling, you might feel exhausted, but the bike stays upright." Fascinating look at the Chinese auto industry's oversupply crisis from @reuters.com:

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That's cool Andrei, I'll be here in America, writing about tariff policy. Again

Turns out this thing might be... pretty good, actually?
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4/ New study from my @nzpolicylab.bsky.social lab: @davidfickling.bsky.social covers our report on Chinese overseas green manufacturing FDI. We spent the summer painstakingly coding every single chinese green factory across the world. The results are striking:
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South Korea adjusting their "Invest-in-America" playbook.

At Europe’s biggest auto show, one thing stood out: the future of the continent’s car industry will be decided by Beijing and Brussels.

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As someone born in the '80s: If you don't have side strakes, I refuse to recognize your authority

More like Meh-starossa, am I right folks

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“.. It doesn’t take a full-time data archivist to go online and see Europeans are souring on the U.S.”

@insideevs.com
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Caught up with the VW Group's CEO at IAA Munich. OUT: making the same cars everywhere in the world. IN: the U.S., Europe and China doing different things, with tariffs making everything "TBD" for us in the meantime

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How did America and Europe end up so far apart on the electric vehicle transition? That's the subject of today's edition of my newsletter, Route Zero. Sign up to read—it's free!

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