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Volkswagen is considering cutting as many as 100,000 jobs and closing four German factories, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, June 26, in what would be the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history. The plants on the list are Volkswagen‘s sites in Hanover, Zwickau and Emden, plus Audi‘s factory in…
Polestar will stop selling new cars in the United States starting with the 2027 model year after the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security declined to grant it authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The Swedish brand announced the decision on Thursday, June 25. It is the first automaker pushed out of the American…
A Xiaomi YU7 GT circled the Nürburgring Nordschleife with an empty driver’s seat and logged 10 minutes, 29.483 seconds, the first officially timed autonomous lap of the German circuit. Xiaomi set the run on June 8 and announced it on June 22, releasing onboard video that shows the steering wheel turning itself through the corners…
The outbound lot at Gigafactory Texas held its largest visible batch of production Cybercab units yet on Sunday, June 14, 2026, with the gold-finished robotaxis staged in tight rows along the factory’s west side. A widely shared count from a Tesla observer on X put the tally at a record 102 cars, a figure that…
Ford’s $30,000 electric pickup has been photographed on public streets for the first time, and the sighting happened in Long Beach, California, roughly 2,300 road miles from the metro Detroit area where the company said camouflaged prototypes would soon appear. The Autopian published exclusive spy photos on June 9, 2026, showing a camouflaged four-door pickup…
New research published in The China Journal dismantles the story Washington tells itself about China’s electric vehicle rise. Political scientists Fengming Lu and Xiao Ma argue the boom was never engineered by a Beijing master plan. It grew from alliances between ambitious second-tier city governments and private carmakers that central regulators had locked out of…
Tesla restocked used Cybertrucks days after selling out, with starting prices up to $72,900 and Foundation Series trucks still stripped of permanent FSD.
Tesla launches a wave of US promotions, including 0% APR financing on the Model Y, a year of free Supercharging for Model 3 buyers, and $99 FSD subscriptions. See the full breakdown of lease deals and tax incentives.
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