Patrick George

6 days ago | insideevs.com | Patrick George

This is not your father's Audi. You won't find a four-ring badge on the grille. There's barely a grille at all, just thin LED lighting and a familiar name with an unfamiliar logo. It's long, sleek and purple. It's a wagon, but one with a silhouette unlike almost any Audi that's come before it. Inside, a screen sweeps from one door to another. Buttons are few and far between.

6 days ago | insideevs.com | Patrick George

For the longest time, most people working in, or covering, the automotive industry thought of Chinese-made cars as cheap and subpar—something you wouldn't want your worst enemy to drive. I'm certainly guilty of this, too. When Chinese cars would occasionally make it to Western auto shows, we'd joke that many of them looked like "communism Corollas."Well, nobody's laughing now.

1 week ago | insideevs.com | Patrick George

For the biggest Tesla boosters, the most prominent counter-argument to sagging sales worldwide has been "Just wait." Specifically, wait for the new Tesla Model Y to hit the road. It's the world's best-selling electric vehicle, the best-selling car by some metrics, and Tesla's most important vehicle, bar none. So the going theory has been that many fans were simply waiting for that car to arrive, and then Tesla sales would see a long-awaited revival. But new sales data suggests that isn't the case.

1 week ago | insideevs.com | Patrick George

Photo by: Patrick George It's been said that the Xiaomi SU7 is China's Apple Car—a super high-tech electric vehicle that's deeply connected to a popular ecosystem of personal gadgets. If you take that idea to its logical conclusion, and if Apple had actually pulled it off, then you would've been able to buy a car at the Apple Store. In the end, Apple couldn't make that dream a reality. But Chinese tech giant Xiaomi certainly did.

1 week ago | insideevs.com | BYD Seagull |Patrick George

I'm overdue in giving you, InsideEVs reader, my review of the new Audi SQ6 E-Tron. But the top-level takeaway is that I like it a lot. And I think it further proves my theory that every new Volkswagen Group electric vehicle I drive feels like a quantum leap over the last one. The German conglomerate does seem to be figuring this stuff out. Unfortunately, even rapid technical advancement can't save the VW Group from its current headaches.