The dispute consuming Giga Berlin for weeks just hit pause. Tesla and German union IG Metall reached a truce Thursday in a labor court in Frankfurt (Oder), agreeing to suspend public statements about an alleged secret recording at a February…
The phrase keeps showing up. Musk has described a future of “sustainable abundance” driven by AI and robotics in multiple public appearances over the past year, including at Tesla’s November 2025 shareholder meeting. It’s a large claim from the CEO…
When Tesla reincorporated from Delaware to Texas in June 2024, Musk told shareholders it was about escaping hostile courts. What he didn’t mention: Texas was already the home base for a personal empire of shell companies that blur the lines…
The man who tweeted “Will own no house” in 2020 has quietly assembled more than 90 companies in Texas, used them to buy over 1,000 acres of land, two luxury hotel condos, and multiple houses for the mothers of his…
The dispute that has been consuming Giga Berlin for weeks just hit pause. Tesla and German union IG Metall reached a truce on Thursday in a Frankfurt (Oder) labor court, agreeing to drop the public back-and-forth over the February 10…
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has independently verified that a Donut Lab solid-state cell charged from 0 to 80% in 4.5 minutes at an 11C rate — a result that legitimately puts the Finnish startup ahead of every…
There’s a telling contrast buried in Tesla’s February news cycle. On one front, the company filed a lawsuit on February 13 demanding that a California administrative agency retract its finding that Tesla engaged in false advertising around Autopilot and Full…
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…
The 400-kilometer range threshold that European fleet drivers say they need before switching to electric? BMW’s newest models just happen to clear it. That timing is worth examining. A new survey of 655 Dutch company car drivers, commissioned by BMW…
Six months of covering Tesla’s door handle safety crisis. Six EVXL articles documenting trapped children, fatal crashes, and a design flaw Elon Musk insisted on despite engineer objections. On Tuesday, Congress finally moved, Bloomberg reports. The House Committee on Energy and…
Three months after the federal EV tax credit expired, a collector car fintech CEO told WardsAuto what we’ve been reporting since last summer: legacy automakers bet billions on government subsidies instead of building EVs people would buy without them. The…
The first crack in Europe’s tariff wall against China-made EVs didn’t come from BYDor SAIC. It came from Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest automaker, which just secured an exemption from the 20.7% additional duty on its China-built Cupra Tavascan SUV. The European Commission published the decision Tuesday in the…
