A $25,000 Toyota Corolla now offers lane-centering as standard equipment. A $35,000 Tesla Model 3 does not. That sentence captures the absurdity of Tesla’s latest move better than any analysis could. Tesla quietly removed its Basic Autopilot package as a…
Full-year 2025 registration data from the California New Car Dealers Association confirms what quarterly reports suggested all year: Tesla suffered the steepest market share decline of any automaker in America’s largest EV market. The company’s share of all vehicles registered…
A $60,000 BYD Sealion 7 caught Julian Scot-Smith’s attention at a London Porsche dealership last December. The British couple had come to browse German luxury SUVs in Mayfair. They left considering a Chinese alternative. That moment, captured in a new…
The internal documents tell one story. Tesla’s press statement tells another. According to works council election records obtained by German business daily Handelsblatt, Giga Berlin’s headcount dropped from 12,415 in 2024 to 10,703 today. That’s 1,712 fewer workers. A 14%…
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…
Volvo has officially unveiled its all-electric EX60 mid-size SUV, and the specifications tell a story the Swedish automaker desperately needed to tell. After months of declining EV sales and workforce cuts, today’s reveal in Stockholm delivers a vehicle that directly…
Two months after demanding Brussels weaken the 2035 combustion engine ban, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government is now pledging billions in taxpayer money to boost EV sales. The contradiction reveals Germany’s auto industry isn’t facing a policy problem. It’s facing a…
Five months ago, Elon Musk called Dojo an “evolutionary dead end” and disbanded the entire team. Now he wants to put it in orbit. The whiplash is real. Over the long weekend, Musk announced on X that Tesla aims to…
Canada’s new China-EV tariff agreement lands just days after BYD officially dethroned Tesla as the world’s largest EV manufacturer, creating an unexpected lifeline for the American automaker in a market where it already has boots on the ground. The deal…
Finnish electric motorcycle maker Verge Motorcycles and its technology spinoff Donut Lab just announced the world’s first production vehicle with solid-state batteries at CES 2026. The $30,000 TS Pro promises 200+ miles of range, sub-10-minute charging, and 100,000 charge cycles.…
When Prime Minister Mark Carney shook hands with President Xi Jinping in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Friday, he wasn’t just resetting Canada-China relations. He was breaking rank with Washington on one of the most contentious trade issues…
After months of testing competitors and hearing claims that the EV market has caught up to Tesla, tech reviewer Marques Brownlee from Auto Focus got behind the wheel of the 2026 Model Y Performance. His verdict cuts through both the…
