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Tesla filed suit February 13 to reverse California's "false advertiser" ruling on FSD and Autopilot. Meanwhile, Grok with Navigation Commands rolls out to Europe and Australia on software update 2026.2.6.1.
The first Tesla robotaxi crash in Austin happened just weeks after the service launched. The most recent batch of five happened in a single month. In between, the pattern stayed consistent: federal data shows Tesla’s autonomous fleet is hitting things at a rate that would get a teenage driver’s insurance canceled. Bloomberg’s Kara Carlson reported…
China’s largest automaker just filed the first tariff lawsuit by a Chinese car company against the United States government. The legal argument is about import duties on bus parts and batteries. The strategic play is about something bigger. BYD’s four American subsidiaries filed suit at the US Court of International Trade on January 26, arguing…
California’s clean-truck voucher program just handed Tesla roughly $165 million in reserved funding for a truck that has delivered exactly five units to paying customers. A Los Angeles Times investigation published today exposes how the state’s Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) allocated nearly 1,000 vouchers to subsidize the Tesla Semi…
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 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…
Every Tesla on the road today has two batteries. The big one moves the car. The small one opens the doors. When that small battery dies in a crash, you’re locked inside. Samuel Tremblett found that out at 1:04 a.m. on October 29, on a dark stretch of Route 138 in Easton, Massachusetts. The 20-year-old’s…
Six days after announcing the death of the Model S and Model X, Tesla quietly dropped a new Model Y variant into its U.S. configurator that tells you everything about where the company is headed. The Model Y All-Wheel Drive, priced at $41,990, fills a $7,000 hole that existed in Tesla’s lineup since the stripped-down…
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