F-150 Lightning, Mustang Mach-E, and the Skunkworks platform — Dearborn’s electric bet, tracked.
The numbers coming out of Windsor, Ontario right now are striking. Jahn Engineering, a tool and die shop that has served automakers on both sides of the border for years, has seen its sales fall nearly 70% since U.S. policy changes kicked in. The company has already made layoffs. It is not alone. Windsor’s Supply…
The vacant lot next to Fred Ippolito’s Volkswagen dealership in West Islip, New York, says more about the current state of auto retail than any industry report. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ippolito bought it four years ago, convinced Scout Motors would need dealer partners to move its American-built trucks and SUVs. Today it’s…
The vote Tuesday night wasn’t close enough to stop anything, and everyone in the chamber knew it. Nashville’s Metro Council passed a resolution expressing concerns about The Boring Company‘s Music City Loop tunnel project 20 to 15, with 2 abstaining. The resolution has no legal force. It cannot delay tunneling or alter the route. It…
The single most telling number from Scout Motors’ reservation update isn’t 160,000. It’s 87%. That’s the share of reservation holders who chose the 500-mile extended-range version of the Scout Traveler SUV and Scout Terra pickup over the pure battery-electric option. For a brand launching in 2027 with the explicit goal of winning over American truck…
February registration numbers from across Europe show Tesla posting some of its best year-on-year gains in months. Norway was up 75.6%, France up 55%, Spain up 74%, according to registration data published by Automotive World. On paper, that reads like a genuine recovery. The problem is the floor those numbers are measured against: January 2026…
Tesla’s European CO₂ pool just got smaller. Both Toyota and Stellantis are withdrawing from the pooling arrangement for 2026, according to automotive analyst Matthias Schmidt and a newly published EU document listing the pool’s remaining members. That leaves Tesla, Ford, Honda, Mazda, and Suzuki as the active participants. The departures remove what have likely been…
February is always a short month in China, and Lunar New Year makes it shorter still. Factory shutdowns, travel, and disrupted logistics routinely cut monthly delivery figures by 30 to 50 percent for every Chinese automaker. So when Xiaomi posted February deliveries of more than 20,000 vehicles on its official Weibo account on Sunday, the…
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 New York-based independent research firm, Chinese government support accounts for just $235 of BYD’s roughly…
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