SU7, SU7 Ultra, YU7 and Lei Jun’s auto ambitions — the phone maker that builds the fastest EVs in China.
I’ve been covering the EV battery fire saga for months, from Li Auto’s 11,000-vehicle recall to cargo ships sinking with burning EVs. Now China has done something no other country has attempted: mandating that EV batteries simply cannot catch fire or explode under any test conditions. This isn’t incremental regulation. It’s Beijing declaring that Chinese…
Ford is turning to French automaker Renault to develop two entry-level electric vehicles for Europe, abandoning its own platform as too expensive to compete with Chinese rivals, reports the WSJ. Why it matters: The deal marks Ford’s admission that it cannot build affordable EVs alone as Chinese brands capture 6.7% of the European market. The…
Tech reviewer Marques Brownlee just delivered a verdict that should terrify Detroit. After two weeks driving a Xiaomi SU7 Max on American roads, the influential YouTuber concluded this $42,000 Chinese sedan delivers an experience worth $75,000. That’s a $33,000 value gap that no tariff wall can explain away forever. Why MKBHD’s Xiaomi Review Matters Brownlee…
Tesla's Shanghai factory shipped 86,700 vehicles in November, up 10% YoY, marking just the third monthly increase in 2025 as BYD declines for third month.
The world’s largest EV maker just posted its worst sales streak in years, and it happened during what should have been the industry’s biggest buying rush. BYD Co. delivered 480,186 vehicles in November 2025, a 5.3% decline from the same month last year, according to Bloomberg. This marks the third consecutive month of year-over-year declines…
BYD just announced its third major recall of 2025, and the pattern is becoming impossible to ignore. China’s market regulator confirmed Friday that BYD will immediately recall 88,981 Qin PLUS DM-i plug-in hybrids over battery pack quality issues. The affected vehicles were produced between January 2021 and September 2023, according to Reuters. The issue stems…
We’ve been warning for months that China’s EV “miracle” was built on unsustainable foundations. This week, Bloomberg delivered the receipts. Chinese EV stocks are in freefall after a brutal Q3 earnings season exposed what we’ve been documenting all year: the growth-at-all-costs era is ending, and the bill is coming due. Investors who bet on endless…
Tesla faces sales pressure in all three of the world’s biggest car markets simultaneously, with European registrations plunging 48.5% in October while industry-wide EV sales jumped 26%. The collapse comes as CEO Elon Musk has spent much of 2025 focused on robotics pursuits and winning shareholder approval for his freshly minted $1 trillion pay package.…
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