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Dutch transport minister Vincent Karremans told parliament on Tuesday, June 16, that the RDW did not lean on Tesla’s own safety figures when it approved Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for Dutch roads. The denial answers a Reuters investigation published the day before, which reported that Tesla handed regulators in the Netherlands and Sweden self-published statistics that…
Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety stats that 10 of 11 researchers call misleading marketing.
Belgium approved Tesla‘s FSD Supervised on June 10, 2026, one day after Denmark cleared the same software. That makes Belgium the fifth European country and Denmark the fourth to authorize the driver assistance system. When EVXL covered the Dutch approval on April 10, the open question was whether other member states would recognize it quickly…
Ford’s $30,000 electric pickup has been photographed on public streets for the first time, and the sighting happened in Long Beach, California, roughly 2,300 road miles from the metro Detroit area where the company said camouflaged prototypes would soon appear. The Autopian published exclusive spy photos on June 9, 2026, showing a camouflaged four-door pickup…
Chinese electric vehicles are closer to American driveways than the 125% cumulative tariff wall suggests, and the question driving industry analysis this week is no longer whether they arrive but through which door. One door already exists: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group owns the Volvo plant near Charleston, South Carolina, where Volvo and Polestar models roll…
Audi revealed the Nuvolari today in Antibes, a 1,001 PS plug-in hybrid two-seater that the company calls the fastest and most powerful production vehicle in its history. The car pairs a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 with three electric motors, will be built in a run of 499 units, and reaches a top speed above 350 km/h…
Slate Auto's electric pickup ships with no embedded modem, so it physically can't transmit your location. Why that hardware choice beats any privacy policy.
The new Rolls Royce Spectre Series II brings a 308-mile range, NACS charging, and a 680 hp Black Badge variant to fight off a massive global sales decline.
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