BMW’s EVs Are Up 37.5% in Europe and Down About 35% Everywhere Else. Neue Klasse Hasn’t Left Europe Yet
BMW Group delivered 81,941 electric vehicles in Europe in the third quarter, up 37.5%. Outside Europe, its battery-electric deliveries fell…
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The Senate’s China Car Bill Gives Mercedes Until 2030. Its Own Buyback Is Making the Math Worse.
The Senate Commerce Committee's reported connected-vehicle bill gives Mercedes-Benz until model year 2030. After that, its U.S. sales depend on…
Argentina Signed Off on Toyota’s $1.3 Billion ‘Electrified’ Plant. Toyota Still Hasn’t Said What Goes in It.
Argentina granted Toyota 30 years of tax and customs stability for an unnamed electrified vehicle at Zárate. Toyota's final approval,…
Mercedes Trips the China Car Bill’s 15% Wire. Volvo, Nearly 79% Geely-Owned, Already Has a Hall Pass.
Commerce cleared majority Geely-owned Volvo and refused Polestar under a control test. The Senate bill's 15% ownership line would instead…
Eleven Dead, Zero Importers Named: NHTSA’s DTN Airbag Order Has a Who-Pays Problem
NHTSA's April order tells whoever imported DTN60DB airbag inflators to notify owners and fix them. Eleven deaths in, the agency…
Nissan Lost 152,000 Sales in Five Months. China Ate 115,000 of Them.
Nissan's global sales are down 12.1% this fiscal year, and three-quarters of the drop is China. Its forecast now needs…
Gas-Only Cars Just Dropped Below Half of Global New-Car Sales. Meanwhile, Americans Get $4.35 Gas and No EV Credit.
Gasoline-only models fell to 49% of global new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026. In the U.S., gas is…
Chinese Automakers Might Build in Mexico, and Nissan Is Bracing for It. Don’t Expect Those Cars to Cross the Border.
Nissan has been Mexico’s sales heavyweight for so long that it’s easy to forget how...
Mercedes Just Sold a Record Number of EVs. Its S-Class and Maybach Crowd Fell 21%.
Mercedes-Benz set a quarterly EV record, but its Top-End cars fell 21% as China sales dropped 31%, pushing the segment…
Researcher Shut Off a Moving BYD’s Headlights From the Roadside, Then Used Its Speakers to Get Siri to Read Out the Driver’s Home Address
A researcher sat on the shoulder of a road outside Canberra with a laptop and...
Norway Sealed a Chinese Bus Inside a Mountain to Find Its Kill Switch. A Romanian SIM Card Was Holding It.
Oslo's transit agency sealed a Yutong electric bus inside a mountain and found its maker could reach the power system…
America Already Banned Chinese Cars. The Senate Is Fighting Over Who Gets to Unban Them.
Commerce banned Chinese connected-vehicle software and hardware in 2025. The Senate bill everyone calls a ban is really a fight…
Hyundai Wants Guardrails Against Chinese Cars. Its Own History Says They Only Buy Time
Hyundai's CEO wants U.S. limits on Chinese automakers. The bigger news is his admission that Chinese car tech is ahead,…
BYD Already Has an American Factory. Washington Wrote a Law Around It.
BYD has built buses in California for over a decade. Congress still wrote it out of federal transit money. That…
Volkswagen Has Marked Down Porsche by €9 Billion in a Year. The 1% Forecast Is Just the Receipt.
Volkswagen’s 1 percent profit forecast is really about a €6 billion Porsche goodwill write-down, its second in a year, and…