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Walk through any commercial parking lot and the problem is obvious: there is no wall to mount a charger on. Tesla’s new Tall Pedestal for Wall Connector, now listed at shop.tesla.com, answers that problem directly. It is a 76-inch aluminum post that gives property managers and fleet operators a freestanding home for one or two…
Six Cybercabs are currently being destroyed so that more can be built. That detail — six units simultaneously in crash testing — is the clearest signal yet that Tesla’s production ramp for the Cybercab at Giga Texas is moving on schedule toward its April 2026 volume production target. The update comes from Joe Tegtmeyer, a…
Washington state’s Senate Transportation Committee has scheduled an executive session on SB 6354 for February 27 — a bill that would open the state’s auto market to direct sales by Rivian, Lucid, and other battery electric vehicle manufacturers that have never operated through a franchised dealer network. If it clears committee, passes the full Senate,…
When Tesla reincorporated from Delaware to Texas in June 2024, Musk told shareholders it was about escaping hostile courts. What he didn’t mention: Texas was already the home base for a personal empire of shell companies that blur the lines between his public and private interests in ways that should worry every Tesla investor. Texas…
The man who tweeted “Will own no house” in 2020 has quietly assembled more than 90 companies in Texas, used them to buy over 1,000 acres of land, two luxury hotel condos, and multiple houses for the mothers of his children. A New York Times investigation published today reveals just how far the gap has…
One day after reporting Q4 earnings that beat revenue estimates, Lucid Group filed a WARN notice with California’s Employment Development Department disclosing 319 job eliminations at its Newark headquarters, effective April 21, according to the Mercury News. That’s the third consecutive year Lucid has filed layoff notices at the same address: 123 workers cut in…
The first Tesla robotaxi crash in Austin happened just weeks after the service launched. The most recent batch of five happened in a single month. In between, the pattern stayed consistent: federal data shows Tesla’s autonomous fleet is hitting things at a rate that would get a teenage driver’s insurance canceled. Bloomberg’s Kara Carlson reported…
China’s largest automaker just filed the first tariff lawsuit by a Chinese car company against the United States government. The legal argument is about import duties on bus parts and batteries. The strategic play is about something bigger. BYD’s four American subsidiaries filed suit at the US Court of International Trade on January 26, arguing…
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