Electric // Decoded — The cars, batteries and charging of the EV era

// Drivetrain telemetry

The electric layer, live

25 data graphs cycling through range, batteries, charging, chemistry and sales. Auto-advances; hover to pause, click any chart for the detail, tap a dot to jump.

// The fleet

Electric vehicle index

Notable EVs across price and purpose — click any card for the full spec sheet.

// Head to head

Range, battery, charging & price

The numbers that actually decide an EV, side by side. Sorted by range.

Model	Maker	Range (EPA-est)	Battery	0-60 mph	Peak charge	From (USD)

// The whole market

Every EV on sale (& coming)

The full US market by manufacturer, model and starting price. Type to filter.

Maker	Model	From (USD)	Segment

// How EVs get built

Friction stir welding for e-mobility

An EV lives or dies on its battery tray and body-in-white. A solid-state joining process — friction stir welding, run by industrial robots — is quietly becoming the way those aluminium structures are made.

KUKA six-axis robot arm configured for friction stir welding

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Friction stir welding (FSW) joins metal without melting it. A spinning tool is plunged into the seam between two aluminium parts; friction softens the metal to a plastic state and stirs the two sides into a single, forged-grain joint. Because nothing melts, there’s no filler, no shielding gas and none of the porosity or distortion of arc welding — which is exactly what a battery tray or a crash structure needs.

Mounted on a six-axis robot like KUKA’s KR QUANTEC, the process becomes flexible enough for the long, complex seams of an EV floor. That combination — a solid-state weld on a programmable arm — is why FSW has moved from aerospace into the heart of electric-vehicle manufacturing.

KUKA friction stir welding — highest quality — **Highest quality.** Extremely high joint strength with minimal welding distortion — a forged-grain seam rather than a melted one.

KUKA friction stir welding — green technology — **Green technology.** Up to 80% less energy than fusion welding, with no fumes, no arc and no shielding gas.

KUKA friction stir welding — significant savings — **Significant savings.** Material savings through optimised components, no consumables and reduced part preparation.

Five steps to a tailored robot-based friction stir welding solution — Building a robot FSW cell runs through five stages — analysis & feasibility, tool selection, assembly & configuration, in-house training, and final sign-off.

> Process imagery courtesy KUKA. Friction stir welding is increasingly used for EV battery trays and body structures.

// Frontier dispatch · newest in electric mobility

One in five new cars is electric

What's actually changing at the leading edge of the electric transition right now.

THE TIPPING POINT

The EV share of new-car sales crossed roughly 20% globally — an S-curve few forecasts caught.

Electric vehicles have gone from novelty to default faster than almost anyone predicted. Around one in five new cars sold worldwide in 2025 was fully electric, up from under 1% in 2016. Growth is uneven: China leads by a wide margin at roughly 60% of global EV sales, Europe is second, and the United States a distant but rising third.

The engine underneath is battery cost. Pack prices have fallen roughly tenfold since 2010 — from about $1,000 to near $100 per kilowatt-hour — as cheaper, safer LFP chemistry took over the mainstream and nickel-rich cells held the long-range premium end. The competitive centre of gravity has shifted toward China's supply chain, where BYD now outsells Tesla on total volume.

> Sources: IEA Global EV Outlook · BloombergNEF battery survey · manufacturer figures. Ranges are EPA-estimated where available.