Tesla vs. Waymo: Zero California Test Miles in Six Years Exposes the Robotaxi Gap
A Reuters investigation published today — based on previously unreported California DMV records and a state spokesperson — reveals that Tesla logged zero miles of autonomous test driving on California public roads in 2025. That makes it six years in…
Lucid Motors Cuts 319 Newark Jobs As Layoff Count Hits Third Year Running
One day after reporting Q4 earnings that beat revenue estimates, Lucid Group filed a WARN notice with California’s Employment Development Department disclosing 319 job eliminations at its Newark headquarters, effective April 21, according to the Mercury News. That’s the third…
The Boring Company’s Nashville Music City Loop Gets Final Green Light, Tunneling Already Underway
The Boring Company has been sitting in Nashville with its Prufrock-MB1 tunnel boring machine since January, engine ready, waiting on permits. Today, the last major regulatory hurdle cleared. By tonight, the company announced it was already 2.5 feet into the…
Tesla’s Cybercab Program Manager Quit the Day After the First Unit Rolled Off the Line
The man who led the development of Tesla’s Cybercab from concept to first production unit just walked out the door. Victor Nechita, who held the title of Vehicle Program Manager for the Cybercab, announced on LinkedIn that he’s leaving Tesla…
Donut Lab’s Solid-State Battery Passes Its First Independent Test — But the Hardest Claims Are Still Unproven
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has independently verified that a Donut Lab solid-state cell charged from 0 to 80% in 4.5 minutes at an 11C rate — a result that legitimately puts the Finnish startup ahead of every…
Tesla Sues California DMV Over FSD Branding While Grok Expands to Europe and Australia
There’s a telling contrast buried in Tesla’s February news cycle. On one front, the company filed a lawsuit on February 13 demanding that a California administrative agency retract its finding that Tesla engaged in false advertising around Autopilot and Full…
Lucid Q4 2025: Revenue and Production Guidance Both Beat Analyst Expectations — So Why Did the Stock Drop 6%?
Three beats, one brutal miss, and a stock that fell anyway. Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) reported Q4 2025 results today that cleared the bar on revenue, beat FactSet’s production guidance consensus for 2026, and delivered its eighth consecutive quarter of…
Ford’s PHEV Bet Hits a Wall: Fraunhofer Study Proves Plug-In Hybrids Burn 3x More Fuel Than Claimed
After spending a decade covering the EV market, one stat in a new 61-page Fraunhofer Institute study stopped me cold: the average Porsche PHEV driver charged their battery to less than 50% capacity exactly once over two years. That’s 7…
BMW Paid for a Study That Proves Its Own EVs Are Good Enough. Here’s What It Actually Found
The 400-kilometer range threshold that European fleet drivers say they need before switching to electric? BMW’s newest models just happen to clear it. That timing is worth examining. A new survey of 655 Dutch company car drivers, commissioned by BMW…
Tesla’s Austin Robotaxis Crash Every 57,000 Miles, and Musk Just Removed the Safety Monitors
The first Tesla robotaxi crash in Austin happened just weeks after the service launched. The most recent batch of five happened in a single month. In between, the pattern stayed consistent: federal data shows Tesla’s autonomous fleet is hitting things…
Canada’s Chinese EV Gamble Puts Detroit’s Canadian Plants on the Chopping Block
The same auto industry lobby that represents GM, Stellantis, and Ford in Canada just told Prime Minister Mark Carney his Chinese EV deal is making an already brutal US trade negotiation worse. Brian Kingston, President and CEO of the Canadian…
Rivian Q4 Earnings Beat Wall Street As R2 Delivery Guidance Stuns Analysts
The last time Rivian beat earnings expectations, in November 2025, October EV sales were already in freefall. The stock popped, the headlines cheered, and then reality showed up in the form of a 31% Q4 delivery plunge. Today’s Q4 report…
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