The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has denied a 2023 petition that demanded a recall of every Tesla built since 2013, concluding there is no evidence of a safety defect tied to the company’s use of regenerative braking and…
China’s January-February sales window is always distorted by Lunar New Year. Factories go quiet, showrooms empty, and delivery figures swing 30 to 50 percent on calendar timing alone. Strip out the noise and the picture for Tesla is actually decent:…
The cancellation notices have been arriving faster than the vehicles they were meant to replace. Automotive News published a tracker this week cataloging the EVs canceled or delayed in 2026 as legacy automakers continue pulling back from all-electric commitments made…
The numbers coming out of Windsor, Ontario right now are striking. Jahn Engineering, a tool and die shop that has served automakers on both sides of the border for years, has seen its sales fall nearly 70% since U.S. policy…
The vacant lot next to Fred Ippolito’s Volkswagen dealership in West Islip, New York, says more about the current state of auto retail than any industry report. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ippolito bought it four years ago, convinced…
Tesla’s Canadian Model 3 inventory has gone to zero. A check of Tesla’s Canadian storefront shows no Model 3 units available for order, and the timing lines up directly with Canada’s new 6.1% tariff on Chinese-built EVs, which replaced the…
The Western auto industry has spent years blaming Chinese state subsidies for BYD’s price advantage over Tesla and other foreign rivals. A new Rhodium Group report published February 19 makes that argument a lot harder to sustain. According to the…
The numbers Stellantis published Wednesday, February 26, confirm what the February 6 preliminary announcement already signaled: Stellantis booked a €20.1 billion net loss for the second half of 2025, or roughly $23.8 billion, driven by €25.4 billion in total writedowns across the…
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…
Six months ago, when we first reported on Stellantis shuttering factories to dodge EU emission fines, the company’s Europe chief called electrification targets “unreachable.” On Friday morning, the bill for that failed strategy arrived: €22.2 billion ($26 billion) in charges,…
The final 2025 scorecard is brutal for Tesla. BYD sold 2.26 million battery-electric vehicles last year. Tesla delivered 1.64 million. That’s a 620,000-unit gap that grew every quarter, and it happened while BYD was locked out of the world’s second-largest…
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,…
