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Tesla Loses Biggest Market Share In California As Toyota Climbs To No. 2
Tesla's California market share fell to 9.9% in 2025 as Toyota rose to No. 2. Discover why registrations dropped 11% despite Model Y’s segment dominance.
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Tesla vs. Handelsblatt: Giga Berlin’s 1,700 “Missing” Workers and the Permanent vs. Temp Word Game
The internal documents tell one story. Tesla’s press statement tells another. According to works council election records obtained by German business daily Handelsblatt, Giga Berlin’s headcount dropped from 12,415 in 2024 to 10,703 today. That’s 1,712 fewer workers. A 14% decline. Tesla’s response? “Compared to 2024, there has been no significant reduction in the number…
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Tesla Revives Dojo3 for Space: Musk’s Moonshot Pivot Exposes the Real AI Battlefield
Five months ago, Elon Musk called Dojo an “evolutionary dead end” and disbanded the entire team. Now he wants to put it in orbit. The whiplash is real. Over the long weekend, Musk announced on X that Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. The twist? This time it…
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Tesla FSD’s $100,000 Value Promise Dies as Musk Kills Lifetime Purchase Option
Five years ago, Elon Musk told Tesla owners their Full Self-Driving software would be worth “somewhere in excess of $100,000” once regulatory approval arrived. Yesterday, he announced Tesla will stop selling FSD entirely after February 14, forcing everyone onto a $99 monthly subscription. The appreciating asset just became a perpetual rental fee. For the thousands…
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Tesla Arson Case Ends With Five-Year Sentence: What It Means for Owners and Insurance
Federal prosecutors just secured their first Tesla-related arson conviction without going to trial, and the five-year mandatory minimum sentence sends a clear signal about how seriously the Department of Justice is treating attacks on the electric vehicle maker. But behind the headlines about domestic terrorism and political backlash lies a quieter story that directly affects…
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Cobalt Mining Exposé Reveals the Uncomfortable Truth Every EV Buyer Should Know
The electric vehicle revolution runs on cobalt, and a devastating new book exposes exactly whose hands dig it out of the ground. “The Elements of Power” by New Yorker journalist Nicolas Niarchos traces the battery supply chain from Congolese mines to Chinese factories to the EVs parked in American driveways, and the picture isn’t pretty.…
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Tesla India Inventory Piles Up as Buyers Cancel, Forcing $2,200 Discounts
Four months after Tesla’s celebrated India debut, nearly one-third of its imported Model Y inventory sits unsold in warehouse limbo. Bloomberg reports that roughly 100 of 300 imported vehicles remain without buyers, forcing the American automaker into the same discount playbook that’s become painfully familiar across Europe and China. The India setback adds another chapter…
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Tesla FSD Purchase Option Dies February 14: Why the $8,000 Bet Never Made Sense
After years of promising that Full Self-Driving would become an “appreciating asset,” Tesla just admitted the opposite by killing the $8,000 purchase option entirely. CEO Elon Musk announced on X early this morning that Tesla will stop selling FSD as a one-time purchase after February 14, 2026, forcing all future buyers into subscription-only access at…
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