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The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. It’s getting tougher and tougher to identify “new” cars and trucks in the present era of slowly evolving, highly modular platforms. Take the 2027 Ford F-150, for instance. The 14th-generation was “new” in 2021 and has received incremental upgrades since. Now, Ford’s half-ton pickup is getting another round of updates for the upcoming model year. Don’t worry; you won’t get whiplash. While there are some big changes for 2027, they aren’t particularly far-reaching. The…

Share of top EV battery makers in China (Aug 2026) Share of Top EV Battery Makers in China (Aug 2026) Company Installations (GWh) Market share (%) Share vs prev month CATL 32.54 41.45% -0.89 BYD 16.47 20.98% +1.75 CALB 5.11 6.51% -0.45 Eve Energy 4.67 5.95% -0.10 Gotion High-tech 4.61 5.87% -0.42 Rept Battero Energy 2.72 3.47% -0.45 Sunwoda 2.71 3.46% -0.13 Zenergy 1.87 2.39% -0.05 Energee 1.80 2.30% +0.07 Svolt Energy 1.80 2.29% +0.46 LG Energy Solution 1.60 2.03% +1.05 Deeiot Energy 0.53 0.67% +0.36 Cornex 0.51 0.65% -0.25 Yinpai Battery 0.44 0.56% -0.41 CNET 0.31 0.39% +0.03 CATL…

The 2026 Lexus GX 550 is one of the most distinctive luxury SUVs available right now: a body-on-frame ladder-frame platform shared with the Toyota Tundra, 349 horsepower and 479 lb-ft of torque from a twin-turbocharged V6, genuine off-road capability across every trim, and six configurations organized into three purpose-built families. Edmunds confirms the base GX 550 starts at approximately $66,785 including the $1,450 destination charge, with the full lineup spanning to $84,800 for the Luxury+ per Temecula Valley Lexus’s current price guide. KBB listings confirm active inventory at $74,044 to $88,281 MSRP across multiple configurations. Edmunds recommends the…

BYD calls it the industry’s first AI-powered smart luxury SUV. The new Denza N8L EV is an all-electric version of the current plug-in hybrid (PHEV), starting at 299,800 yuan, or about $45,000. BYD launches the all-electric Denza N8L EV A few weeks ago, BYD’s luxury sub-brand Denza claimed the new all-electric N8 boasted “a world-leading 1,003 km pure electric range,” equipped with its latest batteries and other breakthrough technology. The Denza N8L EV is an extended version, offering more interior space and seating for six compared to five in the standard version. Denza first launched the N8L almost a year…

The most obvious upgrade for the Palma 3 is the hardware itself. It still features the same 6.13-inch, 300ppi E Ink Carta screen as its predecessor (which is now quite a few years old), but it’s wrapped in a new anodized aluminum frame with a paperlike fiberglass backplate. The Palma 3 looks like a significant upgrade to the Palma line, even if under the hood you’ll find more of the same. The pocketable e-reader is powered by a Qualcomm Q-6690 octa-core processor with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage expandable with a microSD card. It also includes a 3950mAh…

The idea of a weekend car is a coveted one. The vehicle you keep stowed away for when the mood strikes, knowing it disconnects you from the complications of your daily car and is focused on one thing: driving. Even basic cars today, such as the Toyota Corolla, have so much tech on board that they’re great for getting you to work and back, but you won’t feel your blood pumping when you drive them hard. Toyota’s third-generation mid-engined sports car, the MR2 Spyder, brings driving back to basics. Plus, its small size and low power mean you can have…

Though preoccupied with vlogging lately, Canon hasn’t forgotten its photography market. The company just unveiled the 24-megapixel EOS R8 II, an entry-level full-frame camera with all new styling that’s strikingly different from the previous R8 model. In fact, the new camera reaches back much further, borrowing design cues from its classic EOS 650 SLR film camera, adding a touch of retro chic to a previously dull design. A few things you may notice about it are the much more squared-off design compared to the rounded, swoopy R8. With the optional battery grip installed, it has an angled right corner like the…

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The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. General Motors won the hearts of truck people when it announced that the 2027 Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra will come with not one but two new V8 engines: a 5.7-liter and a 6.6-liter. Traditionalists lauded it as a step in the right direction as other manufacturers push for turbo six-cylinders in their full-size pickups. However, I don’t suspect GM will get many pats on the back for this one: Chevrolet and GMC’s V8-powered…

Supercharged V8s are a lot of fun, of course, but that hasn’t saved them from slowly going the way of the dodo. While Americans can largely ignore emissions regulations for a couple more years, the rest of the world isn’t doing the same. Foreign automakers have figured out that a modern turbocharged V8 gives you the same great boost without the parasitic loss and extra fuel burn of constantly turning a supercharger. Jaguar and Land Rover were the last two to let them go in the Defender and F-Pace SVR, leaving only four American brands that offer a blower in…