BYD just announced its third major recall of 2025, and the pattern is becoming impossible to ignore. China’s market regulator confirmed Friday that BYD will immediately recall 88,981 Qin PLUS DM-i plug-in hybrids over battery pack quality issues. The affected…
BMW’s all-electric coupe-SUV future just came into focus. Prototypes of the new iX4 have been spotted testing for the first time, revealing a sleek, range-topping electric crossover that could deliver more than 500 miles on a single charge, according to…
We’ve been warning for months that China’s EV “miracle” was built on unsustainable foundations. This week, Bloomberg delivered the receipts. Chinese EV stocks are in freefall after a brutal Q3 earnings season exposed what we’ve been documenting all year: the…
Germany just made it official. Chancellor Friedrich Merz confirmed today that he’s sending a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demanding that Brussels allow plug-in hybrids and “highly efficient” combustion engines to be sold beyond the 2035…
Tesla’s top China executive publicly defended the company’s deep ties to Chinese suppliers on Wednesday, directly contradicting reports that the automaker is systematically removing China-made components from its American factories. Grace Tao, Tesla’s vice president of external affairs in China,…
Tesla faces sales pressure in all three of the world’s biggest car markets simultaneously, with European registrations plunging 48.5% in October while industry-wide EV sales jumped 26%. The collapse comes as CEO Elon Musk has spent much of 2025 focused…
Tesla’s India launch is off to a dismal start. The company has sold just over 100 Model Y units since deliveries began in September, and its new pitch to Indian buyers is that they can recover one-third of the $67,000…
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…
Volkswagen just admitted what we’ve been reporting for years: German engineering can’t keep up with China’s EV pace. The automaker completed its €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion) test center in Hefei on Tuesday, claiming it can now slash development costs by…
BMW is weighing the addition of range-extending engines to some of its vehicles in China, including the X5 SUV and 7-Series sedan, according to people familiar with the matter. The move would make BMW the first German automaker to embrace…
Tesla claimed victory on European Full Self-Driving approval. The regulator in charge says that never happened and wants Tesla fans to stop flooding its customer service lines with thank-you messages. The public contradiction exposes an unconventional pressure campaign that one…
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…
China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) will manufacture its AION V electric SUV at Magna International’s Austria facility, the companies announced Thursday, marking the second Chinese EV brand in two months to use European contract manufacturing as a workaround for steep…
Vietnamese EV maker VinFast reported staggering third-quarter losses of $910.85 million, nearly double the $503 million lost in the same period last year, as the company’s premium pricing strategy crumbles under pressure from cost-efficient Chinese competitors. Despite achieving 47% revenue…
Foxconn Chairman Young Liu is placing a massive bet on artificial intelligence while stepping back from electric vehicles, predicting that China’s brutally competitive EV market will soon experience a devastating consolidation that forces unprofitable startups to disappear. The world’s largest…
Ford’s UK managing director is pushing back against proposed electric vehicle taxation just weeks after the U.S. federal tax credit expiration triggered the exact market collapse she’s warning about—exposing how legacy automakers built EV strategies dependent on perpetual government subsidies…
Swedish battery-electric truck startup Einride has sued Danish logistics giant Maersk over a collapsed deployment deal that was supposed to put 300 zero-emission trucks on American roads but instead became the latest casualty of the post-subsidy EV market collapse. The…
The UK Ministry of Defence is considering a blanket prohibition on Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles for military personnel, citing concerns that built-in cameras and microphones could enable espionage. The move follows months of restrictions at sensitive military sites and mirrors security…
Xiaomi’s EV division posts a $98 million profit in Q3 2025, validating a “ruthlessly efficient” consumer tech strategy that puts Apple’s failed car project to shame. Xiaomi has achieved the holy grail of the electric vehicle industry—profitability—in record time, reports…
BMW just proved its new iX3 electric SUV can travel farther on a single charge than most drivers will ever attempt in one day. A BMW team drove the 2026 iX3 over 1,000 kilometers (626 miles) from the automaker’s Debrecen,…
Porsche unveiled the 2026 Cayenne Electric today, crowning it the most powerful production vehicle in the German automaker’s 77-year history with a staggering 1,139 horsepower. The launch comes just weeks after Porsche posted a $1.1 billion quarterly loss and declared…
The Lotus Emeya has set a new benchmark for production electric vehicle charging performance, reaching a peak rate of 443 kW during independent testing conducted by Lotus Al Ghanim in Kuwait. Using Lotus’s proprietary 450 kW DC ultra-fast charger, 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…
Volkswagen and Rivian are exploring opportunities to license their jointly-developed electric vehicle platform to competing automakers, marking a strategic shift that could transform the $5.8 billion partnership from an exclusive collaboration into an industry-wide technology provider. The announcement came during…
Tesla is internally testing Apple CarPlay integration after years of CEO Elon Musk dismissing the feature as unnecessary, Bloomberg reported today. The stunning reversal comes as the electric vehicle maker faces collapsing sales across global markets and increased pressure following…
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…
Tesla’s China sales collapsed to 26,006 vehicles in October 2024, marking a three-year low as the electric vehicle maker struggles with tepid demand in the world’s most competitive EV market. The 35.8% year-over-year decline represents a stunning reversal from September’s…
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