Editorial Standards
These are the rules we hold ourselves to. If we fall short, tell us through the Contact page and we will address it under our Corrections policy.
Independence
Volt Newsroom decides what it covers and how. No company, advertiser, sponsor or investor can pay for coverage, approve our content before publication or remove an article.
Sourcing
- Every factual claim should trace to a named source, an official document or our own reporting.
- For policy and incentives, we rely on the official notification from the relevant ministry or state department, and we state its date.
- We name sources wherever we can. Where we cannot verify something, we say so instead of presenting it as fact.
- Company claims, such as sales or funding figures, are attributed to the company unless we have confirmed them independently.
News, analysis and opinion
We keep reporting and opinion separate. News reports state what happened. Analysis and opinion pieces are labelled, carry the author’s name or the Volt Newsroom Desk, and may take a position. Explainers are written to be neutral and are updated when the facts change.
Data and trackers
Every entry in a tracker links to a public source and shows the date it was last checked. We do not publish figures we cannot source. Operators, companies or readers can request a correction at any time.
Conflicts of interest
Anyone who writes for Volt Newsroom must disclose financial or professional connections to a company they cover. If a connection exists, we either assign the story elsewhere or state the connection in the article. The editor, Deepak Rajula, handles marketing for an electric vehicle OEM and discloses this on our About page. We do not cover his employer or its brands.
Sponsored content and advertising
CONFIRM: We do not currently accept sponsored content or advertising. If we do in future, it will be labelled clearly as sponsored or advertising, kept visually distinct from editorial content, and will not be written or approved by the advertiser as news.
Use of AI tools
[DECIDE: state how AI tools are used. Suggested wording if applicable: We may use AI tools to help with drafting and editing. A named human editor checks every article for accuracy and is responsible for what we publish. We do not publish AI-generated images as photographs, and we label illustrations.]
Images
We use photographs we have rights to use and credit them where required. Illustrations and generated images are labelled as such. We do not place text over news photographs.
Corrections
We correct errors promptly and openly. See our Corrections page for how this works.