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A Li i6 electric SUV on display at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2026. Credit: CnEVPost. Li Auto said the adjustment aims to shorten customers’ waits after ordering. Reservations were previously scheduled to open in late September. The updated Li i6 electric SUV will feature an in-house-developed 5C battery and Mach assisted driving chip. Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI) has moved the launch of the 2026 Li i6 to late October while keeping deliveries scheduled for early November, aiming to shorten customers’ waits after placing orders. Li Xinyang, head of product lines at the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker, announced…

The setting affects whether workers can review photos and videos from your glasses. Meta Meta has started to roll out the setting that allows people who use its smart glasses to opt out of allowing the company to use “visual data” collected by the device for AI training. The setting is now available within the Meta AI app. The company has begun notifying glasses owners about the change with a pop-up in the Meta AI app. “Your Al glasses can translate a menu, identify a plant and more,” it says. “You can opt out of providing…

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. You hear it all the time: New cars are complicated. Automakers could make them less complicated, but that’s not really their bag, so instead we can only watch as software sinks its claws ever deeper into every aspect of driving. Long gone are the days when control units were siloed and tied to ancillary features; today, everything from entertainment to safety to propulsion itself runs through code. And when there’s a problem with that…

BYD announced its new flagship electric sedan will launch next month with over 1,000 km (621 mi) of range on a single charge. Pre-orders opened last month, starting at around $37,000. BYD will launch the Great Han EV on October 13 The Great Han, or Da Han as it’s called in China, is BYD’s first D-segment flagship sedan in the Dynasty family. We got a sneak peek of the new full-size sedan in June after it was revealed in the batch of new energy vehicles approved for sale by China’s MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology). Lu Tian, the…

The 2027 Volkswagen Atlas is the most significant Atlas in the model’s history , a ground-up second-generation redesign arriving at Volkswagen dealers this fall with official pricing confirmed directly from Volkswagen of America’s press release. VW confirmed all four 2027 Atlas trim prices including the $1,525 destination charge: SE FWD at $43,135, SE 4Motion AWD at $45,135, SE with Technology FWD at $47,135, SE with Technology AWD at $49,135, SEL R-Line AWD at $53,635, and SEL Premium R-Line AWD at $58,135. The 2027 starts $2,350 above equivalent 2026 trims , but arrives with meaningfully more standard equipment, a…

Finding a 2.0-liter inline-four that’s capable of producing 325 horsepower isn’t all that impressive these days. The increased popularity of turbocharging has made that sort of punch a reality. Customers can even find it in hot hatches such as the Volkswagen Golf R and the Honda Civic Type R. Remove the turbocharger, though, and 325 hp from a tiny engine becomes much more difficult to achieve. That is, unless you’re Boreham Motorworks. The British motorsport company recently unveiled an engine that pumps out 325 hp without a turbocharger, while weighing just 187 pounds. It’s called the TEN-K, and in order…

When almost every other automaker was scrambling to catch up with Tesla, buoyed by the tech industry pushing the narrative that in just a few years the only cars people would be buying are all-electric, Mazda seemed to just shrug its shoulders and toss out a compliance car in the US and appease European legislation, albeit with realistic range this time. Now, Mazda is saying the quiet part out loud – it doesn’t believe the all-electric hype. That doesn’t mean Mazda doesn’t accept the realities of new technologies, though. Mazda’s Reluctance To Dive Headfirst Into Electrification Has Paid Off 2025…

A Nio vehicle’s central touchscreen displays a navigation map in an image released by HERE Technologies, which is expanding its partnership with the automaker across its European lineup. Credit: HERE Technologies. The companies will explore technologies supporting NOA and Nio World Model, laying the groundwork for future assisted driving capabilities in Europe. The partnership expanded from Firefly to Nio’s entire European lineup, bringing continuously updated map data. Nio Inc (NYSE: NIO) expanded its European partnership with mapping and location technology company HERE Technologies, extending continuously updated map services across its entire lineup in the region and supporting future assisted driving…

Roku recently launched its first-ever OLED TVs. The $999 starting price was already impressive for the 55-inch Pro Series model that has a 120Hz refresh rate OLED panel (with four HDMI 2.1 ports and support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10 Plus). The price is even lower right now at Amazon when you enter the code ROKUOLED300 at checkout. It knocks a clean $300 off, as the code indicates, making this the most affordable modern 55-inch OLED you can get right now.If you’re more of a 65-inch TV kind of person, you’re in luck, as there’s a code that knocks…

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. Tim Burton’s Batman Returns is one of the best, if not the best, movies in the Batman franchise. What is a fact, however, is that the Batmobile created for the 1992 film is the most noteworthy of the superhero’s garage—which arguably contains many cool machines. Now, the very creation used in the movie’s driving sequences is going up for auction. The price estimate? Not cheap. Julien’s Auctions will offer the bespoke machine on November…