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Tesla’s European CO₂ pool just got smaller. Both Toyota and Stellantis are withdrawing from the pooling arrangement for 2026, according to automotive analyst Matthias Schmidt and a newly published EU document listing the pool’s remaining members. That leaves Tesla, Ford, Honda, Mazda, and Suzuki as the active participants. The departures remove what have likely been…
There is no dipstick to pull, no cam belt to squint at, no oily fingerprints on a used paper service record. Buying a used EV or second-hand electric car strips away half the checklist that ICE buyers have relied on for decades.
Six consecutive months of year-on-year sales declines. That is the streak BYD is now on, and February made it the worst single month since the pandemic shut down China’s economy in early 2020. According to a stock market filing released Sunday, BYD’s global sales fell 41.1% from February 2025, with domestic sales collapsing 65% to…
The Dutch vehicle authority RDW has apparently told Tesla that March 20 is the target date for regulatory approval of FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands. That came straight from Elon Musk, who mentioned it during an interview at Giga Berlin. If it holds, the Netherlands would become the first European market to greenlight Tesla’s latest…
A door that won’t open in a crash isn’t a design quirk. It’s a death trap. China’s government just codified that reality into law, and the ripple effects will hit EV design studios from Munich to Fremont. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published rules banning concealed, electrically operated door handles on vehicles sold…
There is a specific kind of pressure that only works if the audience believes the threat is real. Elon Musk applied it this week at Giga Berlin, where workers vote March 2–4 on whether IG Metall takes control of the factory’s works council. The message, screened for employees on Wednesday, February 25, and published as…
The updated Denza Z9GT will offer two battery pack options -- 102.326 kWh and 122.496 kWh -- delivering CLTC ranges of 820 km and 1,036 km respectively
Six weeks behind schedule, the first Lucid Gravity SUVs are rolling onto European roads. The confirmation came not from a press release, but from a LinkedIn post reported by Electric Vehicles, written by Fati Biljali, a Lucid delivery advisor for the Swiss market, who confirmed that “the Lucid Gravity has officially landed” and that “this…
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