The Western auto industry has spent years blaming Chinese state subsidies for BYD’s price advantage over Tesla and other foreign rivals. A new Rhodium Group report published February 19 makes that argument a lot harder to sustain. According to the…
Washington state’s Senate Transportation Committee has scheduled an executive session on SB 6354 for February 27 — a bill that would open the state’s auto market to direct sales by Rivian, Lucid, and other battery electric vehicle manufacturers that have…
The numbers Stellantis published Wednesday, February 26, confirm what the February 6 preliminary announcement already signaled: Stellantis booked a €20.1 billion net loss for the second half of 2025, or roughly $23.8 billion, driven by €25.4 billion in total writedowns across the…
The man who tweeted “Will own no house” in 2020 has quietly assembled more than 90 companies in Texas, used them to buy over 1,000 acres of land, two luxury hotel condos, and multiple houses for the mothers of his…
After spending a decade covering the EV market, one stat in a new 61-page Fraunhofer Institute study stopped me cold: the average Porsche PHEV driver charged their battery to less than 50% capacity exactly once over two years. That’s 7…
The 400-kilometer range threshold that European fleet drivers say they need before switching to electric? BMW’s newest models just happen to clear it. That timing is worth examining. A new survey of 655 Dutch company car drivers, commissioned by BMW…
The same auto industry lobby that represents GM, Stellantis, and Ford in Canada just told Prime Minister Mark Carney his Chinese EV deal is making an already brutal US trade negotiation worse. Brian Kingston, President and CEO of the Canadian…
Three months after the federal EV tax credit expired, a collector car fintech CEO told WardsAuto what we’ve been reporting since last summer: legacy automakers bet billions on government subsidies instead of building EVs people would buy without them. The…
General Motors has a pattern now. When the last EV startup executive didn’t work out, the solution is to hire the next one. Claudia Gast, most recently Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Lucid Motors, will join…
Six months ago, when we first reported on Stellantis shuttering factories to dodge EU emission fines, the company’s Europe chief called electrification targets “unreachable.” On Friday morning, the bill for that failed strategy arrived: €22.2 billion ($26 billion) in charges,…
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…
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,…
