ID. range, the GTI revival, PPE platform and Group strategy — Wolfsburg’s EV pivot in full.
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…
The first crack in Europe’s tariff wall against China-made EVs didn’t come from BYDor SAIC. It came from Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest automaker, which just secured an exemption from the 20.7% additional duty on its China-built Cupra Tavascan SUV. The European Commission published the decision Tuesday in the Official Journal of the EU, and Chinese automakers are already lining up to negotiate their
The UN just adopted a draft global regulation for self-driving cars. Tesla fans are celebrating. They probably shouldn’t be, at least not yet. The UNECE regulation replaces prescriptive rules with outcome-based validation The new regulation, adopted by the GRVA at its 24th session in Geneva on January 19-23, 2026, establishes uniform safety provisions for vehicles…
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…
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