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A federal appeals court has handed Tesla another courtroom loss, this time over a patent covering automated electric vehicle charging systems. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a split decision on February 26, affirming that Tesla failed to invalidate a patent held by Charge Fusion Technologies, LLC. The full ruling,…
Fourteen crashes. An estimated 800,000 miles. One city. Those numbers come directly from Tesla’s own vehicle safety reports filed with federal regulators, as analyzed by Bloomberg’s Kara Carlson using data from NHTSA’s Standing General Order database. Five Crashes Across Six Weeks Paint a Damaging Picture Tesla’s latest vehicle safety report covers five incidents from December…
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,…
The 2026 Porsche Cayenne Electric can handle 97 percent of normal braking without touching its mechanical brakes. That’s not a marketing claim. It’s the direct result of six seasons of Formula E development, and it’s the clearest example yet of electric racing technology paying off in a production vehicle. Motor1 sat down with TAG Heuer…
The numbers Stellantis published Wednesday, February 26, confirm what the February 6 preliminary announcement already signaled: Stellantis booked a €20.1 billion net loss for the second half of 2025, or roughly $23.8 billion, driven by €25.4 billion in total writedowns across the full year. The second-half adjusted operating loss came in at €1.38 billion, in line with…
The dispute consuming Giga Berlin for weeks just hit pause. Tesla and German union IG Metall reached a truce Thursday in a labor court in Frankfurt (Oder), agreeing to suspend public statements about an alleged secret recording at a February 10 works council meeting — at least until the plant’s works council election concludes Wednesday,…
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