The numbers from Munich tell a clear story. BMW reported full-year 2025 EBIT of €10.2 billion — its lowest since the Covid pandemic — as China sales fell more than 12% and trade tariffs shaved 1.5 percentage points off its…
The numbers landing on Michael Leiters’ desk for his first annual results press conference as Porsche CEO are brutal by any measure. Full-year 2025 operating profit fell 98% from €5.3 billion to just €90 million after €4.7 billion in writedowns…
The narrative around the electric Porsche 718 Boxster and Cayman has lurched in every direction over the past two years. First it was EV-only. Then reports surfaced that the whole plan was collapsing. Now a senior Porsche executive says he…
Porsche sold just 16,339 Taycans globally in 2025. That’s down from a peak of 41,296 in 2021 — a 60 percent collapse in four years. Those are the numbers sitting on incoming CEO Michael Leiters’ desk as he reportedly weighs…
Ride in the back seat of a quick EV long enough, and there’s a decent chance you’ve felt it: a faint queasiness that comes and goes with every burst of acceleration or pulse of regenerative braking. It’s not imaginary, and…
Range claims from China’s test cycle deserve scrutiny. The CLTC (China Light-duty vehicle Test Cycle) consistently produces numbers well above what real-world driving delivers — typically estimated at 20-30% higher than EPA-rated figures. Keep that in mind when reading what…
The 2026 Porsche Cayenne Electric can handle 97 percent of normal braking without touching its mechanical brakes. That’s not a marketing claim. It’s the direct result of six seasons of Formula E development, and it’s the clearest example yet of…
Six weeks behind schedule, the first Lucid Gravity SUVs are rolling onto European roads. The confirmation came not from a press release, but from a LinkedIn post reported by Electric Vehicles, written by Fati Biljali, a Lucid delivery advisor for…
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…
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…
A $60,000 BYD Sealion 7 caught Julian Scot-Smith’s attention at a London Porsche dealership last December. The British couple had come to browse German luxury SUVs in Mayfair. They left considering a Chinese alternative. That moment, captured in a new…
Renault SA plans to reintegrate its Ampere electric vehicle and software operations back into the parent company, reversing a strategy that never delivered the €10 billion valuation former CEO Luca de Meo once promised investors. The French automaker is meeting…
