About Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles have gone from curiosities to a central fact of the car business in little more than a decade. Tesla showed that an electric car could be fast, desirable and profitable; China turned EVs into a mass-market product, with BYD rising to rival the world's largest automakers; and nearly every established brand now offers battery-electric models, from small hatchbacks to full-size pickups and luxury SUVs. The question is no longer whether EVs will matter, but how fast and where.
The road has not been smooth. Early EVs struggled with limited range, high prices and sparse charging, and while all three have improved, they remain the main reasons shoppers hesitate. Demand has grown strongly in China and much of Europe but more unevenly in the United States, where incentives and regulations have shifted with politics. Some automakers have scaled back or delayed electric plans, while others have doubled down. Owners praise the instant torque, quiet ride and low running costs; skeptics point to cold-weather range, repair costs and depreciation.
This page follows electric vehicles across the industry: new models and reveals, range and charging performance, prices and incentives, sales figures, recalls and the policy decisions that shape the market. It covers Tesla and BYD, the electric efforts of legacy automakers, startups such as Rivian and Lucid, and the Chinese brands expanding abroad. For anyone weighing an electric car, it is a running view of how quickly the technology and the market are changing.