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The camouflaged sedan sitting on BMW’s Munich assembly line today looks like any other pre-production test mule. But this particular car carries the weight of BMW’s entire electric future on its shoulders. The new BMW i3, built on the Neue Klasse platform’s 800-volt architecture, is the electric successor to the 3 Series, a nameplate that…
Every Tesla on the road today has two batteries. The big one moves the car. The small one opens the doors. When that small battery dies in a crash, you’re locked inside. Samuel Tremblett found that out at 1:04 a.m. on October 29, on a dark stretch of Route 138 in Easton, Massachusetts. The 20-year-old’s…
The 5% purchase tax that was supposed to hurt all EV makers equally in China? It hit BYD like a freight train and barely grazed Tesla. That asymmetry tells you everything about what’s really happening in the world’s largest EV market right now. Tesla shipped 69,129 vehicles from its Shanghai factory in January, a 9.3%…
Six days after announcing the death of the Model S and Model X, Tesla quietly dropped a new Model Y variant into its U.S. configurator that tells you everything about where the company is headed. The Model Y All-Wheel Drive, priced at $41,990, fills a $7,000 hole that existed in Tesla’s lineup since the stripped-down…
Less than two weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney opened Canada’s doors to Chinese electric vehicles, General Motors CEO Mary Barra has broken her silence. She doesn’t like what she sees. “I can’t explain why the decision was made in Canada,” Barra told employees during an all-hands meeting Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.…
Tesla will stop building the Model S and Model X after Q2 2026. The Fremont, California production lines that built the two vehicles for over a decade will be retooled to manufacture Optimus humanoid robots instead. The Model S Helped Make Electric Cars Mainstream The Model S launched in 2012 as a luxury sedan that…
Tesla killed free Autopilot on new Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. Want lane-centering? Pay $99/month for FSD. Toyota and Honda include it standard for free.
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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