The Best EVs We Drove In 2025: How We Picked The Winners On this week's podcast: We recap the 2026 Breakthrough Awards and chat about our favorite cars of the year. By Patrick George Dec 19 2025 -
Rivian’s New Autonomy Tech Arrives: Is This the Breakthrough It Needs? On this week's Plugged-In Podcast, we recap Rivian's Autonomy and AI Day event, and interview its AI chief, James Philbin. By Patrick George Dec 12 2025 -
Why The BMW iX3 Is Exactly The Kind Of EV We've Been Waiting For Plus, we talk about Trump's war on fuel economy, and Harbinger Motors wants to rewrite the book on EV trucks. By Patrick George Dec 5 2025 -
Is The Jeep Recon The Electric Wrangler We Wanted—Or Another Dud? On the Plugged-In Podcast: The Jeep Recon and Porsche Cayenne Electric debut. One of them is promising. Plus, how long do EV batteries last? By Patrick George Nov 21 2025 -
Everything We Know About The Rivian-Volkswagen Joint Venture On this week's Plugged-In Podcast: RV Tech makes progress, Tesla loses key execs and batteries are oversupplied. By Tim Levin Nov 14 2025 -
Can The Rivian R2 Be The Game-Changer The EV World Needs Right Now? On this week’s Plugged-In Podcast: the EV tax credit party ended in September. So what did October’s hangover month look like? By Patrick George Nov 7 2025 -
The Self-Driving Race Is Fully Back On This week on the Plugged-In Podcast: news from Slate Auto, Lucid, and Nvidia. Plus an electric Toyota Corolla is coming. By Tim Levin Oct 31 2025 -
Can Rivian's Also Hit Reset On The E-Bike World? Also on this week's Plugged-In Podcast: We speak to the CEO of Horse Powertrain, who wants to get gas engines ready for an EV future. By Patrick George Oct 24 2025 -
The BMW iX3 Is Made Of 1/3 Recycled Materials. Here's How BMW Did It BMW is betting that using more recycled parts will help with its sustainability goals. It's good for business too. By Tim Levin Oct 22 2025 -
'Absolutely': GM President Says It's Preparing For Chinese Competition In America On this week's Plugged-In Podcast: General Motors President Mark Reuss explains what's next for the Chevy Bolt, affordable EVs, and competing with China. By Patrick George Oct 17 2025 -
Why The BMW iX3's Kidney Grille Is Such A Big Deal No, it's not the design. It goes deeper than that. We speak to BMW executives about why the new iX3 grille is a sea change for the carmaker. By Patrick George Oct 15 2025 -
Tesla’s New ‘Standard’ Model Y And Model 3: Bargain, Or Bare-Bones? But are they solid deals? We discuss on this week's Plugged-In Podcast. Plus, ZETA's Albert Gore III on the future of the EV market. By Patrick George Oct 10 2025 -
Why BMW Is Still Betting Big On Hydrogen BMW's first hydrogen EV is coming soon. We sit down with the executive responsible to learn why BMW is still bullish on fuel-cell tech. By Tim Levin Oct 8 2025 -
The Surprising Limits Of America’s EV Tax Credits America's EV tax credits helped millions of people to break up with gas. But on this week's Plugged-In Podcast, we discuss how they fell short. By Patrick George Oct 3 2025 -
Is America In Its 'Back To Gas' Era? On this week's Plugged-In Podcast, we discuss the automakers' hasty retreat from big EV promises. Where does the space go next? By Patrick George Sep 26 2025 -
Tesla's Door-Handle Disaster, Explained The electric automaker tried to reimagine how door handles work. Years later, it's facing investigations and a potential industry shift. By Patrick George Sep 19 2025 -
BMW, Mercedes And Volkswagen EVs Have Leveled Up. Will They Be Enough? At IAA Munich, Europe's biggest auto show, the home team car companies had a showcase of impressive EVs. But BYD and the Chinese have bigger plans. By Patrick George Sep 12 2025 -
Tesla's 'Master Plan IV': A Path To 'Abundance', Or AI Slop? We examine Elon Musk's latest plan for Tesla, such as it is. Plus: hear from an InsideEVs reporter how the Slate Truck is progressing. By Patrick George Sep 5 2025 -
How To Score A Great Deal On EV Before Time Runs Out On Tax Credits We speak to the head of consumer insights at CarGurus, who has a ton of interesting insights on how to get a great deal on an EV. By Patrick George Aug 29 2025 -
Rivian R4 And R5 Will Be Lower-Cost ‘Siblings’ Than R2 And R3, CEO Says The Rivian R2, R3 and R3X are the brand’s biggest moves yet. Now, CEO RJ Scaringe gives some thoughts on what could come next. By Patrick George Aug 22 2025 -
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe On Why The R2 Launch 'Must Go Well' We chat with Rivian's founder about what the startup is cooking up next, the China threat and why America needs more EV competition. By Tim Levin Aug 22 2025 -
How Ford's $30,000 Electric Truck Hits Reset On How Cars Are Made On this week's Plugged-In Podcast, our reporter on the ground recaps Ford's most ambitious EV plan ever. Can it succeed? By Patrick George Aug 15 2025 -
For Rivian And Lucid, The 'Valley Of Death' Just Got Even Steeper Tariffs, the death of EV tax credits, no more regulatory credits, supply chain crunches... what's an EV startup to do? By Patrick George Aug 8 2025 -
EV Chargers Keep Spreading Across America. These Numbers Prove It On this week's Plugged-In Podcast: More good news for EV charging. Plus, more and more drivers want to go hands-free. By Patrick George Aug 1 2025 -
