We’ve been tracking Tesla’s talent struggles all year, and this weekend’s announcement flips the script entirely. Yilun Chen, who spent nearly four years building Apple’s robotics and autonomous systems capabilities, has joined Tesla’s Optimus AI team, calling humanoid robots “the…
The founders of Harbinger Motors have watched EV startups collapse from the inside. Now FedEx is betting they learned the right lessons. Harbinger Motors, a medium-duty electric truck chassis maker led by veterans of failed EV companies Faraday Future, Canoo,…
Europe’s embattled carmakers are hoping for regulatory relief when Brussels unveils an auto sector package on December 10, which could water down an effective ban on new combustion engines initially slated for 2035. The continent’s automakers from Volkswagen to Renault…
Plug-in hybrids have officially buried diesel in Europe’s powertrain hierarchy. For the first time in automotive history, PHEVs outsold diesel vehicles across the continent through October 2025, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. The milestone marks another…
NIO just reversed four consecutive quarters of widening losses, posting its smallest quarterly deficit since 2022 as record vehicle deliveries and aggressive cost-cutting show the Chinese EV maker may finally be finding its footing in an industry where most competitors…
New York State officials are frustrated with Tesla after two years of lease renegotiations for the taxpayer-funded Buffalo factory hit another wall when Elon Musk abruptly killed the AI supercomputer project that was central to the pending deal. The state…
Germany’s electric vehicle boom is built on a foundation of corporate accounting tricks, not genuine consumer demand. A German industry association warned Monday that nearly one in four newly registered EVs in 2025 were “self-registered” by manufacturers and dealers rather…
President Donald Trump highlighted a vehicle loan interest tax deduction during a November 19, 2025 speech, specifically mentioning Tesla and claiming the policy helps “middle income people” afford cars—four months after the same legislation eliminated the $7,500 EV tax credit…
Toyota announced a $912 million investment across five U.S. manufacturing plants to expand hybrid vehicle production capacity, creating 252 new jobs and marking the first U.S. production of hybrid-electric Corollas. The investment, revealed Tuesday, comes just six weeks after the…
Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng issued a disappointing fourth-quarter revenue forecast on Monday, signaling that even record-breaking delivery numbers can’t shield automakers from China’s relentless EV price war that continues eroding profitability across the sector. The Guangzhou-based automaker projects Q4…
Chinese automaker BYD is aggressively accelerating its European expansion, confirming plans to double its sales network to 2,000 locations by the end of 2026. The move is part of a broad “localization” strategy to build vehicles inside Europe, effectively neutralizing…
South Korea announced Friday it will increase electric vehicle subsidies by 20% in 2026 as part of a broader support package designed to help the country’s automakers survive the Trump administration’s punishing tariffs. The move signals Seoul’s willingness to fight…
The Detroit News reports that two years after promising an electric vehicle manufacturing revolution, America’s Battery Belt has collapsed into a landscape of stalled construction sites, mass layoffs, and desperate pivots to non-EV products. Despite $28 billion in taxpayer subsidies,…
Chinese automakers are gaming their sales numbers by registering unsold electric vehicles to dealerships, who then dump them as discounted “used” cars that have never been driven. The practice has become so widespread that China’s Communist Party is now trying…
Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory reached a significant manufacturing milestone on November 12, 2025, producing its 5 millionth battery pack since operations began in late 2019. The achievement highlights the factory’s role as Tesla’s highest-volume manufacturing complex, yet it arrives amid the…
Volkswagen has unveiled the ID. Unyx 08, a China-exclusive electric SUV that looks nothing like a traditional Volkswagen—and that’s exactly the point. The five-meter electric SUV, co-developed with Chinese EV maker Xpeng, represents the German automaker’s acknowledgment that it can’t…
Tesla is ramping up hiring for its $200 million Megapack battery factory in Brookshire, Texas, just outside Houston, with 41 positions currently posted and a job fair scheduled for the week of November 10, 2025. The facility represents Tesla’s aggressive…
Tesla lost two of its most critical vehicle program managers on the same day, with Model Y chief Emmanuel Lamacchia and Cybertruck lead Siddhant Awasthi both announcing their departures Sunday. The double exit marks the final collapse of Tesla’s vehicle…
Bentley CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser has publicly acknowledged that electric vehicle acceptance has hit an “all-time low” while announcing the luxury automaker’s next new model will be a petrol-powered Supersports performance car—not the EV the company promised just three years ago.…
U.S. motor vehicle sales plummeted in October 2025 as the elimination of federal EV tax credits sent electric vehicle demand into freefall and broader economic uncertainty kept car shoppers away from dealerships. The data reveals the immediate aftermath of one…
Lucid Motors is scrambling to contain a customer relations crisis after lease-return customers reported receiving excessive wear-and-tear bills reaching thousands of dollars for minor cosmetic damage. One customer’s jaw-dropping $7,600 charge for issues including a nearly $5,000 taillight replacement has…
Volkswagen has secured 2.3 billion reais ($425.62 million) in credit lines from Brazil’s state development bank BNDES to accelerate hybrid vehicle development across South America, according to Reuters. The German automaker announced Friday it will use the financing to offer…
Ford CEO Jim Farley has escalated his warnings about Chinese automotive dominance to existential levels, declaring that China’s manufacturing capacity could single-handedly destroy the entire North American auto industry. In a stark CBS Sunday Morning interview that aired October 26,…
European car sales jumped 10.7% in September 2025, driven by a plug-in hybrid explosion that signals automakers are choosing profitable hybrids over money-losing pure electric vehicles to meet emissions targets. But the real story lies beneath the headline numbers: Tesla’s…
Porsche announced its third U.S. price increase in recent months and confirmed production of the gas-powered Macan SUV will end in mid-2026, yet shares of the German luxury automaker jumped more than 4% Monday as Wall Street reacted positively to…
The European Union announced a comprehensive strategy to slash its dangerous dependence on Chinese rare earth materials just 16 days after Beijing imposed sweeping export restrictions that threaten to choke European electric vehicle production. European Commission President Ursula von der…
Tesla’s Model Y returned to the top of Europe’s sales charts in September 2025, ending a nine-month drought that saw the electric SUV plummet as low as 60th place just two months earlier. But the victory comes with a catch:…
France is pushing the European Union to adopt “flexibility” in implementing stricter CO2 emissions rules for new vehicles, signaling support for its struggling domestic automakers as plant shutdowns and job losses mount. The timing is critical: France’s Finance Ministry announced…
Porsche AG just posted the most humiliating quarter in its 77-year history—a €967 million ($1.1 billion) operating loss that marks the luxury automaker’s first quarterly loss since going public in 2022. According to Bloomberg, the sports car manufacturer is hemorrhaging…
Omoda & Jaecoo, the export brands of Chinese automotive giant Chery Group, unveiled plans for an internal combustion engine achieving 48% thermal efficiency at their International User Summit in October 2025. If realized, this would dramatically outpace the industry standard…
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