Tesla announced on March 20, 2026, that it has completed the final vehicle testing phase for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in the Netherlands alongside the RDW (Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer, the Dutch vehicle authority), submitting all documentation required for UN R-171…
February is always a short month in China, and Lunar New Year makes it shorter still. Factory shutdowns, travel, and disrupted logistics routinely cut monthly delivery figures by 30 to 50 percent for every Chinese automaker. So when Xiaomi posted…
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…
The 5% purchase tax that was supposed to hurt all EV makers equally in China? It hit BYD like a freight train and barely grazed Tesla. That asymmetry tells you everything about what’s really happening in the world’s largest EV…
Renault SA plans to reintegrate its Ampere electric vehicle and software operations back into the parent company, reversing a strategy that never delivered the €10 billion valuation former CEO Luca de Meo once promised investors. The French automaker is meeting…
When an automaker announces ambitious sales targets while simultaneously declaring it doesn’t want to be known as a car company, something interesting is happening. Chinese EV maker Xpeng just revealed 2026 delivery goals of 550,000 to 600,000 vehicles, representing up…
ZYT is betting that the same computer vision approach that made DJI drones dominant can now disrupt the autonomous trucking race – and they’re targeting the same H1 2026 mass production timeline as Pony.ai, but with a fraction of the…
I’ve been tracking Porsche’s China collapse for months, and this move crystallizes what’s really happening. The German luxury automaker is shutting down its proprietary “Premium Charging” network across China starting March 2026, eliminating roughly 200 fast-charging stations that were supposed…
Chinese automaker Xpeng will launch its heavily-revised G6 electric SUV in the UK in early 2026, priced from £39,990. Why it matters: The refreshed G6 charges faster than any Tesla while costing up to £12,000 less than its Model Y…
Tesla’s Shanghai factory just posted its best month since September, and the timing couldn’t be more ironic. While Elon Musk builds his political empire in Washington alongside trade hawks pushing aggressive China tariffs, his Chinese factory is quietly propping up…
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…
Volkswagen just admitted what we’ve been reporting for years: German engineering can’t keep up with China’s EV pace. The automaker completed its €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion) test center in Hefei on Tuesday, claiming it can now slash development costs by…
