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Hyundai Motor Group has officially dethroned Volkswagen as the world’s second-most profitable automaker, CEO José Muñoz declared at a high-performance vehicle launch in France, widening the gap between the surging Korean conglomerate and Europe’s largest automaker now hemorrhaging cash. The announcement came as Volkswagen continues its catastrophic 2025, posting a €1.3 billion quarterly loss while
Ford’s UK managing director is pushing back against proposed electric vehicle taxation just weeks after the U.S. federal tax credit expiration triggered the exact market collapse she’s warning about—exposing how legacy automakers built EV strategies dependent on perpetual government subsidies rather than genuine competitiveness. Lisa Brankin, Ford UK’s chair and managing director, told the BBC’s…
Swedish battery-electric truck startup Einride has sued Danish logistics giant Maersk over a collapsed deployment deal that was supposed to put 300 zero-emission trucks on American roads but instead became the latest casualty of the post-subsidy EV market collapse. The lawsuit reveals a corporate sustainability commitment unraveling in real time. The Deal That Wasn’t Einride…
President Donald Trump highlighted a vehicle loan interest tax deduction during a November 19, 2025 speech, specifically mentioning Tesla and claiming the policy helps “middle income people” afford cars—four months after the same legislation eliminated the $7,500 EV tax credit that made electric vehicles genuinely affordable for average buyers. “Middle income people, they don’t know…
Toyota announced a $912 million investment across five U.S. manufacturing plants to expand hybrid vehicle production capacity, creating 252 new jobs and marking the first U.S. production of hybrid-electric Corollas. The investment, revealed Tuesday, comes just six weeks after the federal EV tax credit expiration sent competitors’ pure-electric strategies into freefall. The timing couldn’t be…
The Detroit News reports that two years after promising an electric vehicle manufacturing revolution, America’s Battery Belt has collapsed into a landscape of stalled construction sites, mass layoffs, and desperate pivots to non-EV products. Despite $28 billion in taxpayer subsidies, the grand vision of Midwest EV dominance is crumbling just six weeks after federal tax…
Toyota began production Wednesday at its $13.9 billion North Carolina battery plant and announced an additional $10 billion investment over five years—a massive bet on hybrid vehicles timed perfectly with the Trump administration’s rollback of EV mandates. The facility in Liberty, North Carolina, marks the world’s largest automaker’s first battery plant outside Japan and validates…
Toyota has reaffirmed its commitment to launching solid-state battery electric vehicles by 2027-2028, promising revolutionary 40-year battery lifespans and over 621 miles of range. But with a decade-long history of missed targets and competitors already testing similar technology on public roads, the world’s largest automaker faces a critical credibility test in the global race to…
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