Every Tesla on the road today has two batteries. The big one moves the car. The small one opens the doors. When that small battery dies in a crash, you’re locked inside. Samuel Tremblett found that out at 1:04 a.m.…
The 5% purchase tax that was supposed to hurt all EV makers equally in China? It hit BYD like a freight train and barely grazed Tesla. That asymmetry tells you everything about what’s really happening in the world’s largest EV…
Six days after announcing the death of the Model S and Model X, Tesla quietly dropped a new Model Y variant into its U.S. configurator that tells you everything about where the company is headed. The Model Y All-Wheel Drive,…
Ford CEO Jim Farley has been driving a Xiaomi SU7 for over a year and openly admits he doesn’t want to give it up. Now the Financial Times reports Ford and Xiaomi held actual talks about building EVs together on…
Less than two weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney opened Canada’s doors to Chinese electric vehicles, General Motors CEO Mary Barra has broken her silence. She doesn’t like what she sees. “I can’t explain why the decision was made in…
Tesla will stop building the Model S and Model X after Q2 2026. The Fremont, California production lines that built the two vehicles for over a decade will be retooled to manufacture Optimus humanoid robots instead. The Model S Helped…
Tesla beat Wall Street expectations on earnings and margins in Q4 2025, even as net income dropped 61% and annual profit fell to less than a third of its 2022 peak. Investors shrugged off the decline and pushed shares higher…
Tesla has quietly updated its support website with the full terms of its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Transfer Program. For owners who paid $8,000 (or more) for FSD on their current vehicle, this is the fine print that determines whether that…
The numbers finally flipped. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) outsold petrol cars in the European Union for the first time ever in December 2025, according to fresh data from ACEA released today. But before you call it a tipping point, look…
A $25,000 Toyota Corolla now offers lane-centering as standard equipment. A $35,000 Tesla Model 3 does not. That sentence captures the absurdity of Tesla’s latest move better than any analysis could. Tesla quietly removed its Basic Autopilot package as a…
Full-year 2025 registration data from the California New Car Dealers Association confirms what quarterly reports suggested all year: Tesla suffered the steepest market share decline of any automaker in America’s largest EV market. The company’s share of all vehicles registered…
A $60,000 BYD Sealion 7 caught Julian Scot-Smith’s attention at a London Porsche dealership last December. The British couple had come to browse German luxury SUVs in Mayfair. They left considering a Chinese alternative. That moment, captured in a new…