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Volkswagen's Mission Efficiency EV Is Built to Waste Almost Nothing
Volkswagen's Mission Efficiency ran 794 miles Wolfsburg to Vienna on one charge stop, with a record 0.158 drag coefficient and a 54.9-kWh battery.
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Volkswagen Chased A Flying Car In China For Five Years And Left Its Project Lead Facing A Criminal Case
Reuters obtained hundreds of pages on Volkswagen's failed V.MO flying car. The program died in June 2024, and the Chinese manager VW promoted as the face of its innovation is now the named suspect in a Shanghai trade-secrets investigation.
BYD
BYD Sales Rise 21.8% in July as Exports Hit a Record, but the 5 Million Target No Longer Adds Up
Exports hit a monthly record and drove a third straight month of growth. Run the arithmetic on the full-year guidance, though, and BYD finishes more than a million vehicles short of its own floor.
Earnings
Renault Returns To Profit With One Hard Rule: Every New EV Must Earn Like A Hybrid
Renault posted a €721 million H1 2026 profit as EV sales jumped 47.6% in Europe. The rule behind it: no new EV is approved unless it earns like a full hybrid.
FSD
Tesla Model Y With FSD Is One Dutch Father's Answer to the Blackout Crash That Took His License
After losing his license for a year following a blackout crash, Dutch entrepreneur Wilco de Kreij says a new Tesla Model Y with FSD Supervised is his answer to the fear of another medical emergency at the wheel.
FSD
Tesla FSD Hits 50 Million Kilometers in Europe, 28 Times the Dataset That Won Its Approval
Tesla says European customers have now logged more than 50 million kilometers on FSD Supervised, a figure that is roughly 28 times larger than the 1.8 million kilometer dataset used to help win the system's first type approval in the Netherlands.
Tesla
Tesla Posts Its Best June Ever In The UK As Electric Cars Take 30% Of The Market
Tesla registered 12,173 new cars in the United Kingdom in June, the brand’s best June on record there and a 58% jump over the 7,719 it managed a year earlier, according to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) data published Monday, July 6, 2026. That volume handed Tesla 5.7% of the entire British new…
BYD
BYD Retakes The Global EV Crown From Tesla With Quarterly Sales That Shrank 8%
BYD sold 557,090 fully electric vehicles in the second quarter, enough to take back the global BEV crown from Tesla a full day before Tesla reports its own numbers. Here is the part most coverage will skip: that winning figure is 8.22% lower than what BYD sold in the same quarter last year. Tesla publishes…
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