A genuinely unusual moment has arrived in the used car market: roughly 329,000 EV leases are expected to return in 2026 alone. A part of a broader wave of nearly 3 million total US vehicle leases maturing this year, up from about 2.4 million in 2025. Combined with steep EV depreciation, this is creating some […]
For most of automotive history, a car’s capabilities were locked in the moment it left the factory. Adding a new feature meant installing new physical hardware. In 2026, that’s changing fundamentally, and it’s one of the defining shifts covered in our broader look at 2026 automotive trends. At its core, a software-defined vehicle (SDV) is […]
Roughly one in four new cars sold worldwide in 2025 was electric, and the International Energy Agency expects that global share to climb further in 2026. A genuine, accelerating EV boom by any global measure. Yet in the US specifically, EV sales have been sliding, with some reports showing US EV market share dropping from […]
Choosing between an electric, hybrid, or gas vehicle in 2026 requires unlearning some assumptions that were true just a year ago. The single biggest shift: the federal EV tax credit of up to $7,500 officially expired on September 30, 2025, and is no longer available for any 2026 vehicle purchase. That change alone has meaningfully […]
The automotive industry is navigating a genuinely unusual moment in 2026. One where electrification, software, and geopolitics are all reshaping the business simultaneously, sometimes pulling in opposite directions. New tariffs, shifting emissions regulations, and a cooling US EV market are forcing automakers to revisit plans they’d committed billions of dollars to just a few years […]
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