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Tesla vehicle registrations in California fell 24.3% in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the same quarter a year earlier, according to the Q1 2026 California Auto Outlook released Tuesday by the California New Car Dealers Association (CNCDA). Tesla’s statewide market share fell from 9.2% to 7.7% over that span, even as the company’s…
Honda President and CEO Toshihiro Mibe traveled to China, toured an auto supplier factory in Shanghai, and came back with a verdict that should alarm every Western automaker still treating China as a growth market: “We have no chance against this.” The quote, reported by Nikkei Asia, came during a meeting with Honda’s own suppliers…
Rolls-Royce CEO Chris Brownridge dropped the 2030 all-electric target March 18 as Spectre deliveries fell 47% to 1,002 units in 2025. The V12 stays.
Stellantis brands including Dodge, Jeep, and Ram now have access to 27,500+ Tesla Supercharger stalls in North America. See the full list of 21 compatible automakers and what owners need to know about adapters.
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…
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…
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has independently verified that a Donut Lab solid-state cell charged from 0 to 80% in 4.5 minutes at an 11C rate — a result that legitimately puts the Finnish startup ahead of every other solid-state developer on raw charging speed. Having tracked solid-state battery announcements for years, I’ve…
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 auto market entirely. The damage extends far beyond the headline numbers. In the countries where…
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