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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.
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 on robotics pursuits and winning shareholder approval for his freshly minted $1 trillion pay package.…
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 price tag through fuel and maintenance savings over four to five years, Reuters reports. The…
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 had high hopes for the electric vehicle shift when they set ambitious targets at the…
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 up to 50% while accelerating timelines by 30%. This marks the first time in Volkswagen’s…
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 technology popularized by Chinese competitors like BYD and Li Auto. This isn’t innovation. It’s adaptation…
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 autonomous driving expert called “unheard of” in regulatory history. RDW Disputes Tesla’s February 2026 Promise…
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 than sold to actual customers. The revelation exposes a troubling gap between official registration statistics…
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