Patrick George

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@WSJ.com Detroit Bureau Chief. Cars, manufacturing, robots occasionally. Texan in the Motor City. Former: EIC @insideevs.com, Contributing Writer @theatlantic.com, bylines in lots of places.

The Lucid Gravity SUV in green
Honda hybrid system
The 2026 Honda Prelude in blue
Carvana's 10-foot cube. A phone can be used to operate the video board called the cube that displays vehicle details. Photo: Carvana
A Rivian R2 model in blue.
A photo of a Hyundai Ioniq 5 in Palm Springs, California.
A screenshot of used Kia EV6 deals.
A white Kia EV6 in front of a DC fast-charging station.
The “Voltswagen” logo from VW’s failed April fool’s day joke in 2021
The text reads: A Stellantis spokeswoman said preferred parking is reserved for company-branded vehicles. “Employees must adhere to posted signage and communications,” she said. The results can be confusing and, at times, amusing. At least one online user said they were ticketed for parking an Eagle Talon sports car in a Stellantis lot, despite Eagle being a long-defunct nameplate from Chrysler, which too is now owned by Stellantis. “Seems the security needs a little history lesson,” they wrote. The worker didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Honda's 0 Series Saloon in white
A photo of the 2026 Polestar 4, with no rear window.
Car and Driver headline: "New Honda Prelude Is Popular with the AARP Crowd"
Hyundai Ioniq 5 XRT bumper, close-up of camo pattern
A side view of the 1980s Ferrari Testarossa, highlighting its signature side strakes
A market capitalization of $8.5 trillion would be more than double that of Nvidia Corp., currently the world’s most valuable company. Tesla’s value peaked in late 2024 at about $1.5 trillion.
China is dominating the electric vehicle market globally, accounting for more than 70 percent of global manufacturing in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency. Its E.V. makers have pulled ahead of U.S. car companies on both price and technology. Case in point: the five-minute charger. This past spring, two major Chinese companies announced breakthroughs in battery technology that will enable electric vehicles to drive hundreds of miles on a five-minute charge. After traveling to China to test drive new fast-charging cars sold by BYD, Patrick George, the editor in chief of InsideEVs, said Chinese models were “pretty much a generation or two ahead of the rest of the world.”
A BBC Top Gear headline that likens the Tensor car to an ED-209 from Robocop.
A Kia EV6 in Glacier, against a sunset.
A description of problems with the new Volvo EX90: “In just its first 1,000 miles, the EX90 Consumer Reports bought for testing experienced a litany of issues and bugs. The outlet says that the entire center screen has gone blank a number of times, locking users out of the climate control. Sometimes, the car displays “Starting Up: Your Volvo is getting ready. This will take a few minutes" on the instrument cluster upon startup, and prevents the car from starting for 3-5 minutes.”
A Guardian headline: "Musk’s AI firm forced to delete posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot."
A tweet from Elon Musk that reads, "The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country! Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."
A photo of the new Tesla Model Y.
Following text: However, Drake said that LFP batteries will be essential to making affordable EVs quickly. It probably could have taken Ford "a decade" to fully scale up LFP technology on its own, she said, but this deal will hopefully allow them to get a jump-start. "We'll use all three [battery chemistries] because we have a full-line EV plan," Drake said. "We have affordable EVs, entry-level. We have our commercial EVs, which are very important to Ford. And then our next generation pickup built in Tennessee, that will get the NCM [battery] as well," she said.
Newsletter links with the following text: Trump leaves soccer stars speechless with questions on trans issues, Iran See where extreme heat is about to hit more than 200 million people Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand
The "We're all trying to find the guy who did this" Hot Dog Man from "I Think You Should Leave"
News of delays to Ram’s electric and hybrid trucks.
A quoted post from Twitter about what was initially believed to be a new Tesla model. It is not.
A Swift on Security meme of a My Little Pony talking to a little girl while the world burns
Copy of GM's Q1 shareholder letter: "I want to begin this letter by saying how proud I am of our employees, dealers and suppliers for the results they helped deliver in the first quarter of 2025. We are also grateful to President Trump for his support of the U.S. automotive industry."
Nio Firely in green.
The Nio ET5 in cream yellow next to a battery-swap station.
The Nio ET9 in gray. Kind of looks like a sleeker but taller Porsche Panamera with narrower LED headlamps.
Lynk & Co. 900 interior, cream and navy, with a giant panoramic screen.
Zeekr 007 GT in lilac.
The Lynk & Co. Z20, in a shade of a pink.
Text comment: This is NOT like your very own EV6 ownership or Mack Hogan's Blazer EV ownership, it is a car show and in China is a crafted, monitored, display of prowess the CCP proper wants YOU to see. China has it's (CATARC) to define what a Chinese BEV operation mode is. Take these same automobiles on to U.S. soil, hand them off to Tom Mologhney or Kyle Conner in a freeway loop range test and find China, "ain't all that". China pounds their chest and does a Tarzan Yell on battery chemistries, claims and MCS charge capabilities, pivoting off of the CLTC one of the MOST liberal range test models in the World would be a disappointment in other countries on any given day.
An advertisement in Japan for a Chevy Cavalier rebadged as a Toyota.
A BYD Seagull.
Bagged tires and wheels stacked inside a Dodge Charger Daytona EV.
EVs being built inside Hyundai's Georgia Metaplant.
Text from the story: Business leaders are now rapidly reassessing the cheerful assumptions that had guided their thinking since Election Day. Bill Reinsch, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Commerce Department official, said Mr. Trump had been explicit in the campaign about his intentions, and that his tariff proposals this time have been much deeper and broader than in his first term. “I think he was clear,” he said. “I don’t think people paid much attention.”
Close-up of the front of the Porsche 924 Carrera GT, in silver.
The rear of the Lancia Stratos rally car in Alitalia livery.
A screencap of Zelenskyy in his black fatigues being mocked by President Trump.
Promotional art from the Ionnq Rechargery network.
Screen cap from “Snatcher” that reads “This story is dedicated to all those cyberpunks who fight against injustice and corruption every day of their lives”