ID. range, the GTI revival, PPE platform and Group strategy — Wolfsburg’s EV pivot in full.
The vacant lot next to Fred Ippolito’s Volkswagen dealership in West Islip, New York, says more about the current state of auto retail than any industry report. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ippolito bought it four years ago, convinced Scout Motors would need dealer partners to move its American-built trucks and SUVs. Today it’s…
February registration numbers from across Europe show Tesla posting some of its best year-on-year gains in months. Norway was up 75.6%, France up 55%, Spain up 74%, according to registration data published by Automotive World. On paper, that reads like a genuine recovery. The problem is the floor those numbers are measured against: January 2026…
Rivian officially launches the Rivian Adventure Department (RAD), a specialized skunkworks team of engineers and designers. Focused on pushing
Six consecutive months of year-on-year sales declines. That is the streak BYD is now on, and February made it the worst single month since the pandemic shut down China’s economy in early 2020. According to a stock market filing released Sunday, BYD’s global sales fell 41.1% from February 2025, with domestic sales collapsing 65% to…
The numbers Stellantis published Wednesday, February 26, confirm what the February 6 preliminary announcement already signaled: Stellantis booked a €20.1 billion net loss for the second half of 2025, or roughly $23.8 billion, driven by €25.4 billion in total writedowns across the full year. The second-half adjusted operating loss came in at €1.38 billion, in line with…
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 kilowatt-hours total. You’d use more electricity running a space heater for an afternoon. The study,…
The last time Rivian beat earnings expectations, in November 2025, October EV sales were already in freefall. The stock popped, the headlines cheered, and then reality showed up in the form of a 31% Q4 delivery plunge. Today’s Q4 report reads differently. Not because the backward-looking numbers are pretty, but because the forward-looking guidance just…
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 combined damage now totals $53 billion across Ford, GM, and Stellantis. The write-downs keep getting…
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