ET9, Onvo, Firefly and the Power Swap network — NIO’s three-brand strategy, tracked.
One day after reporting Q4 earnings that beat revenue estimates, Lucid Group filed a WARN notice with California’s Employment Development Department disclosing 319 job eliminations at its Newark headquarters, effective April 21, according to the Mercury News. That’s the third consecutive year Lucid has filed layoff notices at the same address: 123 workers cut in…
Six months of covering Tesla’s door handle safety crisis. Six EVXL articles documenting trapped children, fatal crashes, and a design flaw Elon Musk insisted on despite engineer objections. On Tuesday, Congress finally moved, Bloomberg reports. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce forwarded the Securing Accessible Functional Emergency Exit Act, or SAFE Exit Act, to the…
Tesla’s Grünheide factory manager just escalated the company’s war with Germany’s most powerful industrial union to a new level. André Thierig, the plant director at Giga Berlin, says an external IG Metall representative was caught secretly recording an internal works council meeting today, and Tesla called the police. Thierig calls police, IG Metall calls it…
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 GM on March 1 as deputy chief financial officer and vice president of strategy, corporate…
California’s clean-truck voucher program just handed Tesla roughly $165 million in reserved funding for a truck that has delivered exactly five units to paying customers. A Los Angeles Times investigation published today exposes how the state’s Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) allocated nearly 1,000 vouchers to subsidize the Tesla Semi…
India has protected its auto market with tariffs ranging from 70% to 110% for decades. Today, New Delhi agreed to slash those barriers for American gas-powered cars and motorcycles. Electric vehicles got nothing. For Tesla, which has spent nearly three years failing to gain traction in India’s market, the omission is a direct policy rebuff,…
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, a suspended dividend, and a 28% stock crash that wiped out billions in market value…
The same week Tesla posted its second consecutive year of declining vehicle deliveries, the company started hiring engineers to build something it has never successfully built at scale: solar cells. A job posting on Tesla’s website for a solar manufacturing development engineer states the company’s goal is to “deploy 100GW of solar manufacturing from raw…
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