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BYD

BYD Denza Z9GT Claims World’s Longest EV Range at 1,036 Km, But CLTC Numbers Need Context

The updated Denza Z9GT will offer two battery pack options -- 102.326 kWh and 122.496 kWh -- delivering CLTC ranges of 820 km and 1,036 km respectively

Haye KestelooFeb 28

Lucid

Lucid Gravity Europe Deliveries Finally Start in Switzerland After Missing January Target

Six weeks behind schedule, the first Lucid Gravity SUVs are rolling onto European roads. The confirmation came not from a press release, but from a LinkedIn post reported by Electric Vehicles, written by Fati Biljali, a Lucid delivery advisor for the Swiss market, who confirmed that “the Lucid Gravity has officially landed” and that “this…

Haye KestelooFeb 27

Tesla Model Y Reclaims Europe’s Top Spot Despite Sales Drop As BYD Seal U Explodes 833%

Canada

Canada’s Chinese EV Gamble Puts Detroit’s Canadian Plants on the Chopping Block

The same auto industry lobby that represents GM, Stellantis, and Ford in Canada just told Prime Minister Mark Carney his Chinese EV deal is making an already brutal US trade negotiation worse. Brian Kingston, President and CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association (CVMA), made the comments at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto…

Haye KestelooFeb 12

BYD Recalls Nearly 97,000 EVs Over Potential Fire Risk

BYD

BYD Outsold Tesla by 620,000 EVs in 2025, and the Gap Is Still Growing

The final 2025 scorecard is brutal for Tesla. BYD sold 2.26 million battery-electric vehicles last year. Tesla delivered 1.64 million. That’s a 620,000-unit gap that grew every quarter, and it happened while BYD was locked out of the world’s second-largest auto market entirely. The damage extends far beyond the headline numbers. In the countries where…

Haye KestelooFeb 7

Volkswagen Faces Tough Choices: Plant Closures and Job Cuts Loom

Germany

Germany vs. Market Reality: Why Berlin’s New $7,000 EV Subsidy Won’t Save Its Auto Industry

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 competitiveness crisis that no subsidy can fix. The Fact: Germany will offer families with small…

Haye KestelooJan 21

Tesla

Tesla Revives Dojo3 for Space: Musk’s Moonshot Pivot Exposes the Real AI Battlefield

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 restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. The twist? This time it…

Haye KestelooJan 20

Tesla

Tesla India Inventory Piles Up as Buyers Cancel, Forcing $2,200 Discounts

Four months after Tesla’s celebrated India debut, nearly one-third of its imported Model Y inventory sits unsold in warehouse limbo. Bloomberg reports that roughly 100 of 300 imported vehicles remain without buyers, forcing the American automaker into the same discount playbook that’s become painfully familiar across Europe and China. The India setback adds another chapter…

Haye KestelooJan 15

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s ‘5x Value’ Self-Driving Math Has a Fatal Economic Flaw

I keep seeing Elon Musk’s 2022 Baron Conference clip resurface on X, where he explains why Tesla is a better investment than Mercedes-Benz using “net present value of future cash flows.” The same argument he made at the March 2025 All-Hands meeting when Tesla stock was down 40%: “It’s very difficult for people in the…

Haye KestelooJan 8

Mercedes-Benz

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