Volkswagen Weighs 100,000 Job Cuts And Four Plant Closures As Its EV Bet Comes Due
Volkswagen is considering cutting as many as 100,000 jobs and closing four German factories, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, June 26, in what would be the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history. The plants…
Polestar Exits US Market As Connected Vehicle Rule Punishes Geely Ownership Over Factory Address
Polestar will stop selling new cars in the United States starting with the 2027 model year after the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security declined to grant it authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The Swedish brand announced the…
Tesla Will Give Nine Drivers Free Supercharging For Life, And It Has Been Counting Your Sessions Since January
Tesla will award nine drivers free Supercharging for life in its 2026 competition. The catch: scoring began January 1 and entry requires sharing your data.
Supercapacitors Charge a Swiss Bus in 15 Seconds. They Will Not Do the Same for Your EV
A headline making the rounds this week promises that supercapacitors could let electric cars charge in 15 seconds. The number is real. The application is not the one the framing implies. That 15-second figure comes from electric transit buses in…
Xiaomi YU7 GT Laps Nürburgring With Nobody Driving, Posting First Autonomous Record
A Xiaomi YU7 GT circled the Nürburgring Nordschleife with an empty driver’s seat and logged 10 minutes, 29.483 seconds, the first officially timed autonomous lap of the German circuit. Xiaomi set the run on June 8 and announced it on…
Lucid Cuts 18% Of US Workforce, Eliminates COO Role In Napoli’s First Major Move
Lucid Group cut roughly 18% of its U.S. workforce on Monday, its second mass layoff in four months, and eliminated the chief operating officer position. The move removes Marc Winterhoff, who ran Lucid as interim chief executive for more than…
Porsche Reverses Its Own Stance, Gives 2027 Taycan The Fake Gears It Once Called a Bad Idea
Porsche has given the 2027 Taycan simulated gear shifting, a feature its own development driver publicly dismissed less than two years ago. The system, called E-Shift, lets drivers row through eight virtual gears using paddles on the GT Sport steering…
Rivian R2 Lease Prices Top $800 a Month, and the Expired Federal Credit Is Why Buyers Are Walking
Rivian began handing the first R2 mid-size SUVs to customers on June 9, and within days the vehicle’s lease quotes, not its driving reviews, became the story. A 36-month lease on the R2 Performance lists at $829 a month on…
Tesla FSD Safety Math Draws Senate Demand for NHTSA Review and a July 7 Deadline
Two U.S. senators want federal regulators to pull apart the statistics Tesla uses to claim its driver-assistance software is far safer than a human behind the wheel. Senators Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter…
Dutch Minister Backs RDW On Tesla FSD As Reuters Data Doubts Reach Parliament
Dutch transport minister Vincent Karremans told parliament on Tuesday, June 16, that the RDW did not lean on Tesla’s own safety figures when it approved Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for Dutch roads. The denial answers a Reuters investigation published the day…
BYD Pays for Crashes Its Driver-Assist Causes, the Bill Tesla Still Hands to Owners
BYD will cover every dollar of an at-fault crash when its urban driver-assist system is steering, with no cap on the payout. The Chinese automaker pledged that guarantee on May 28 at its Intelligence Strategy Launch Event in Shenzhen, the…
Tesla Fed Misleading FSD Safety Numbers to European Regulators, Reuters Finds
Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety stats that 10 of 11 researchers call misleading marketing.
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