Brazil Is Buying Chinese Cars By the Billions. The Real Fight Is Over Screwdrivers
Everyone is reporting that Brazil just became the world’s largest importer of Chinese-made vehicles, spending...
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Stellantis Is Profitable Again. It Also Just Told You Which Of Its 14 Brands Don’t Matter.
Stellantis reported a profit on Thursday. Wire copy treated it as a comeback story: red...
Rivian Blamed Its Mechanics for a Falling-Apart Rear Suspension. Two New Crashes Say That Wasn’t the Whole Story
Rivian already recalled its rear toe link once. NHTSA's new investigation shows that recall covered barely a sixth of the…
Stellantis Just Sold Its Car-Sharing Business to a Company That Buys Other People’s Failures for a Living
When a company sells off a division, the buyer usually tells you more than the...
Tesla’s ‘Free Supercharging For Life’ Promise Just Triggered A Class Action Payout — And The Loophole That Caused It Is Still Legal
Tesla just agreed to hand back years of parking fees to a sliver of its...
Norway Went Hunting for a Chinese Kill Switch in a Bus. It Found Out Every Connected Vehicle Already Has One
Norway spent months trying to prove that a Chinese-built city bus could be remotely disabled...
Trump Got a Drag Race and Signed a Corvette. GM Got Something Way More Valuable.
Presidents don’t typically get invited past the guard shack. Milford Proving Ground has spent a...
Tesla Says a Supplier Held Its Cybertruck Tooling for Ransom. Owning the Dies Was Never the Same as Controlling Them.
This Cybertruck tooling lawsuit started on July 21st, when a team of Tesla employees drove...
Tesla Just Admitted Its Cars Aren’t All Equal Anymore, and the Proof Is Buried in a Chatbot Update
Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update lets Grok answer phone calls, queue a playlist, adjust the cabin...
GM Built 250,000 EVs That Could Power the Grid. The Hard Part Was Never the Technology
Somewhere in Michigan and Northern California, a handful of GM electric vehicles are already sending...
GM Just Spent $430 Million Upgrading Two Factories, and Electric Cars Weren’t Invited
General Motors put out a press release this week about paint booths, assembly lines, and...
Volkswagen Fought EU Tariffs On Chinese Cars In 2024. Now Its Own Best-Seller Got Smoked By A Brand Called Jaecoo, And VW Wants Tariffs Yesterday
Volkswagen wants Brussels to move fast on tariffs against Chinese plug-in hybrids. What the company...
Two VW Engineers Made $300K Insider Trading Rivian Stock. Their Google Searches Are the Real Story.
Two Volkswagen engineers didn’t get caught because federal investigators are brilliant at reading corporate calendars....
Volkswagen’s China Profit Machine Just Collapsed. Nobody Told the Balance Sheet.
Volkswagen wants you to look at one number from its half-year presentation: automotive net cash...
The US Banned Chinese Connected-Car Tech. The Company Racing to Replace It Started With a Chinese License
Forget the model years for a second. The number that actually matters in America’s ban...