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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…
Tesla has filed for a permit to run a paid robotaxi service across Clark County, Nevada, and the number it put on paper is the part worth stopping on. The application, logged as Docket 26-05015 with the Nevada Transportation Authority, asks for authorization to operate up to 5,000 autonomous vehicles in the first 12 months…
Tesla launches a wave of US promotions, including 0% APR financing on the Model Y, a year of free Supercharging for Model 3 buyers, and $99 FSD subscriptions. See the full breakdown of lease deals and tax incentives.
Tesla has settled three individual Fremont factory racism claims days before trial, but California's systemic Civil Rights Department lawsuit still moves to trial on July 20, 2026.
Philadelphia is moving to quadruple its public EV chargers network through a 10-year public-private partnership called ChargePHL, with legislation introduced Thursday by Council
Tesla’s long-promised robotaxi network is far smaller than its rhetoric suggests. State filings made public on May 28 show the company has 42 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas, while a separate third-party tracker counts as few as 20 cars actually carrying passengers without a human safety driver. Both numbers land hard against Elon Musk’s prediction…
Tesla will hold the Signature Edition delivery event for the final Model S and Model X ever built on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at its Fremont, California factory, according to the official invitation shared by Sawyer Merritt on X. The invitation has started going out to the 350 buyers who ordered one of the Plaid-only…
Tesla vehicle registrations in California fell 24.3% in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the same quarter a year earlier, according to the Q1 2026 California Auto Outlook released Tuesday by the California New Car Dealers Association (CNCDA). Tesla’s statewide market share fell from 9.2% to 7.7% over that span, even as the company’s…
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