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Tesla filed suit February 13 to reverse California's "false advertiser" ruling on FSD and Autopilot. Meanwhile, Grok with Navigation Commands rolls out to Europe and Australia on software update 2026.2.6.1.
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 kilowatt-hours total. You’d use more electricity running a space heater for an afternoon. The study,…
The UN just adopted a draft global regulation for self-driving cars. Tesla fans are celebrating. They probably shouldn’t be, at least not yet. The UNECE regulation replaces prescriptive rules with outcome-based validation The new regulation, adopted by the GRVA at its 24th session in Geneva on January 19-23, 2026, establishes uniform safety provisions for vehicles…
Joe Ward started at Tesla as a logistics intern in the UK back in 2010. Fifteen years later, he’s been handed the keys to the entire global sales operation. The timing tells you everything about where Tesla’s automotive business stands right now. Bloomberg reported today that Tesla has tapped Ward, its vice president for Europe,…
Tesla’s Grünheide factory manager just escalated the company’s war with Germany’s most powerful industrial union to a new level. André Thierig, the plant director at Giga Berlin, says an external IG Metall representative was caught secretly recording an internal works council meeting today, and Tesla called the police. Thierig calls police, IG Metall calls it…
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 auto market entirely. The damage extends far beyond the headline numbers. In the countries where…
The internal documents tell one story. Tesla’s press statement tells another. According to works council election records obtained by German business daily Handelsblatt, Giga Berlin’s headcount dropped from 12,415 in 2024 to 10,703 today. That’s 1,712 fewer workers. A 14% decline. Tesla’s response? “Compared to 2024, there has been no significant reduction in the number…
Two months after demanding Brussels weaken the 2035 combustion engine ban, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government is now pledging billions in taxpayer money to boost EV sales. The contradiction reveals Germany’s auto industry isn’t facing a policy problem. It’s facing a competitiveness crisis that no subsidy can fix. The Fact: Germany will offer families with small…
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