Global EV sales climbed 8% in October, with Europe’s battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales jumping 49% and North America posting its first year-over-year increase in 2026. But that North American rebound comes with a big catch.

BYD’s new EV may be about the size of a Toyota Camry, but it’s playing in a whole different league when it comes to technology.

Kia became the first non-European brand to score a hat trick at the 2026 Golden Steering Wheel Awards, Germany’s most prestigious auto awards.

Our midweek Green Deals edition is being led by Segway. The brand just expanded its EV Early Black Friday deal lineup for members, which includes the first discount on the 2026 MUXI Cargo Smart e-bike, while its Navimow Early Black Friday lineup has offers like the i215 LiDAR Robot Lawn Mower down at $1,399, with other deals starting from $899. We also spotted a one-day-only chance to pick up Anker’s eufy SoloCam S340 Solar Security 4-Cam Kit with HomeBase 3 down at $580 (as well as an option to upgrade to 1TB of storage), the Aventon Aventure M Mid-Drive All-Terrain Smart e-bike with a foldable lock at $2,699, some Worx deals on a 2-in-1 cordless chain/polesaw and the Cube portable vaccum, and more. There’s also the deals from the last two days at the bottom of the page below our best EV deals list, including yesterday’s exclusive Anker SOLIX Early Black Friday power station sale lineup, the Velotric Fold 1 Plus e-bike at a new $1,199 low, and others.

Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.

BYD is apologizing after a supplier error left some owners of its new full-size flagship SUV with the wrong wheels.

Elon Musk now says Tesla will keep building the Cybertruck “through the end of summer 2027” to “work through more of the Cybertruck order backlog.” That buys the electric pickup roughly two to three more months, five days after Tesla first announced it was killing it.

The reprieve lands as a growing number of Tesla’s own fans push back on the decision, and on what it says about Tesla’s future as a company that sells cars to people.

Tesla has confirmed a new batch of Tesla Semi deliveries, with its official Semi account saying today that “Chicago’s first 50 Semis” are on their way to the city.

It’s a rare data point. Tesla doesn’t disclose Semi deliveries, and it claims its new Nevada factory can build 50,000 of them a year.

Hyundai’s US electric vehicle lineup will look a bit different in 2027, including the new IONIQ 6 N, a new range-topping IONIQ 9 trim, and a handful of minor updates to the IONIQ 5.

Toyota and Subaru’s new electric SUVs are catching on with buyers, offering various options and prices ranging from about $35,000 to $45,000, or the “sweet spot” of the US market.

Tesla’s “flying” Roadster just took a hit from Porsche. Speaking at a conference in Berlin today, CEO Michael Leiters said Porsche wants “to completely steer clear from any kind of effects and shows,” according to Bloomberg.

Both automakers revealed their next halo cars on the same day, October 15. Tesla made a Roadster flip in mid-air. Porsche showed the Mission S, and Leiters says the two cars aren’t even chasing the same customers.

Genesis opened orders for the ultra-luxury electric SUV in South Korea, with prices starting at over $100,000. If you want coach doors, however, it will cost you a bit more.

QuantumScape (QS) is finally going all-solid-state. Its new Osprey platform swaps the liquid in its cathode for a sulfide solid electrolyte, and the company says the cells have hit 1,000 full cycles to 80% capacity at just one atmosphere of pressure.

That’s a big deal for the sulfide camp, which includes Toyota, Samsung SDI, BYD, and Factorial. Their cells typically need heavy clamping to work. But the white paper behind the announcement shows these are small, early lab cells, and some headline numbers come with important conditions.

Every few years, I apparently feel compelled to remind Honda that it is sitting on what could be one of the easiest home runs in the electric motorcycle industry: just make an electric Super Cub already.

Unplugged Performance, the biggest name in Tesla aftermarket tuning, wants to keep the Cybertruck alive. The company publicly offered on Tuesday to take the Cybertruck line off Tesla’s hands, funded by a consortium of investors.

It comes just four days after Elon Musk said Tesla would wind down Cybertruck production at Giga Texas around mid-2027, with the truck selling at roughly 12% of the 250,000 units a year Tesla planned for.

Kia opened orders for two new PV5 electric van variants, the PV5 Chassis and PV5 Cargo L2/H2, in the UK.

Lucid (LCID) CEO Silvio Napoli admitted on the company’s Q3 earnings call that, as recently as this summer, the automaker “did not even know where cars were.” Buyers placed orders, Lucid took up to two weeks to locate and deliver a car, and some of those buyers walked away.

That’s a rough admission from a company sitting on thousands of unsold vehicles. And it’s a problem Tesla ran into, and fixed, back in 2018 at more than ten times Lucid’s current volume.

New EV prices edged up in October, but buyers still paid less than they did a year ago. The average transaction price for a new EV in the US was $56,220, up 1% from September and down 2.7% from October 2025, according to Kelley Blue Book, a Cox Automotive brand.

BYD’s Flash Charging tech can charge an EV in as little as five minutes. Now, BYD is taking things a step further with integrated solar power and a robotic arm that plugs itself in. See how it all works in action.

BYD and Geely have both approached the FIA about entering Formula 1, the sport’s governing body confirmed. FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem named the two Chinese automakers while speaking at the New Economy Forum in Madrid, as first reported by Grande Prêmio.

But there’s no open process for a 12th team, and neither company has a deal. The FIA is also pushing F1 toward the kind of engine an EV maker has the least reason to build.

Anker is leading our Tuesday Green Deals edition this week, with the brand finally launching its Early SOLIX Black Friday Sale that has up to 54% discounts, our exclusive bonus savings code, and FREE gifts. Alongside the included S5000 station deals, you can find offers like the S2000 2,010Wh Power Station with a 400W solar panel exclusively at $1,140, while other deals start from $530. We also have some spotlight coverage for Velotric’s Fold 1 Plus Folding e-bike at a new $1,199 low, as well as Segway’s Xafari All-Terrain e-bike at a new $1,300 low, the ongoing low for Greenworks’ 40V 12-inch Cordless Snow Shovel, a new Birdfy 4K solar camera, and more. At the bottom of the page is all of yesterday’s hangover deals, like the Yozma IN 10 Pro electric dirt bike at a new $1,614 low, Anker’s eufy early Black Friday security deals, and others.

Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.

Who says long EV road trips mean hours at charging stations? BMW drove the new i3 for over 3 days, covering nearly 3,700 miles, and it took less than 3 hours of charging.

Garmin and Waze are teaming up on an interesting new safety feature that could give cyclists a little extra protection when sharing the road with cars – by making cyclists themselves show up in Waze.

Juiced Bikes is expanding its recently relaunched Scrambler lineup with a new, more affordable model known as the Juiced Scrambler Core. The new bike keeps much of the moto-inspired styling and performance of the existing Scrambler Hardtail, but trims back several components to knock several hundred dollars off the price.

The raid took place at BYD’s offices in the Netherlands, where bailiffs acting for Jaguar Land Rover reportedly seized documents before a court case this week over its “copycat” Defender SUV, the Ti 7.