EVs In The News - NOVEMBER 2025

Igor Orlovich and Ravi Mehta follow the news about Electric Vehicles and have curated items for fans and those thinking about going electric for their next car, SUV, or truck.

News from the Dealers:

The Scottish Munro M280 is not going to be taking over the EV market anytime soon, or ever considering it's $131,750 price tag, but for those who need a serious off-road vehicle, this could be perfect. There's plentiful instant torque, which makes it easy to get over even large obstacles.

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Reflections from Owners:

A homeowner in the Pacific Northwest was able to power her entire house with a GM Sierra EV AT4 for an entire week! GM, Ford, and Honda are including this technology in their EVs. Bidirectional charging turns an EV into a rolling battery that not only draws power from the grid but can also send it back when needed. During a major storm, her neighbors lost power, but the truck battery took over and kept the lights, wifi, and refrigerator running without a hiccup.

It worked so well, we added to the challenge: We flipped the breaker ourselves to see how long we could stay comfortable running entirely from the truck.

We made it a full week completely off-grid. We were careful − no blasting heat, no clothes dryer − but after seven days, the Sierra still had charge to spare. No gas cans. No noise. No stress.

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Charging News:

The former Paralympics champion, Tanni Grey-Thompson and the Electric Vehicle Association England are pushing for the government to introduce standards to ensure chargers are accessible to all drivers.

The number of public chargers across the UK is rising rapidly, with 17,400 – two an hour – installed in the first half of the year. However, the lack of standards means that disabled drivers have often been unable to trust that they can use them.

New research published in Nature Energy found that EV battery life improves when cells experience the power “pulses” you get in real traffic. Compared with perfectly steady charge/discharge cycles, dynamic driving extended usable life by up to 38%. This means roughly 195,000 extra miles before a pack hits its end-of-life threshold, changing purchase math.

The world’s first dynamic induction charging system implemented on a highway with real traffic is now live in France. While still in its infancy, the technology implemented by Electreon on a nearly one-mile stretch of the A10 highway southwest of Paris shows that induction charging while on the move could be a feasible alternative to charging stops.

Three laboratories from Gustave Eiffel University found that the in-road inductive charging system can safely deliver a peak power of over 300 kilowatts and an average power above 200 kilowatts. By comparison, the most popular wired DC fast charger in the United States, the Tesla Supercharger V3, is rated at a maximum output of 250 kW.

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In Other EV News...

E-bike sales are already taking off globally. But a new startup called Also, born within Rivian, hopes to take the space the next level. They plan to take the ground-up, tech-driven approach Tesla and Rivian applied to cars, and do the same thing for smaller electric vehicles.