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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…
India has protected its auto market with tariffs ranging from 70% to 110% for decades. Today, New Delhi agreed to slash those barriers for American gas-powered cars and motorcycles. Electric vehicles got nothing. For Tesla, which has spent nearly three years failing to gain traction in India’s market, the omission is a direct policy rebuff,…
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, a suspended dividend, and a 28% stock crash that wiped out billions in market value…
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 Tesla app’s “Share Destination” feature was never designed for medical emergencies. But on November 15, 2025, at 3:50 AM on a dark stretch of I-20 in Georgia, that’s exactly how Jack Brandt’s family used it. His father was behind the wheel of a 2026 Model Y Launch Edition running FSD v14.1.3 when a massive…
The same week Tesla posted its second consecutive year of declining vehicle deliveries, the company started hiring engineers to build something it has never successfully built at scale: solar cells. A job posting on Tesla’s website for a solar manufacturing development engineer states the company’s goal is to “deploy 100GW of solar manufacturing from raw…
The camouflaged sedan sitting on BMW’s Munich assembly line today looks like any other pre-production test mule. But this particular car carries the weight of BMW’s entire electric future on its shoulders. The new BMW i3, built on the Neue Klasse platform’s 800-volt architecture, is the electric successor to the 3 Series, a nameplate that…
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