Tesla’s ‘Insane’ Mode Is On Trial For A Salon Crash. It Shouldn’t Be The Only Defendant
A Tesla Model Y ended up inside an Arlington, Virginia hair salon this month, and...
Electric Vehicles
BYD Filed Six New Solid-State Battery Patents, But the Real Story Is Whether Two Rocks Actually Touch
Forget the six patents for a moment. The most interesting number in BYD’s newest solid-state...
Lotus Unveils a Hybrid V8 Supercar to Save the Brand. The Real Story Is the Chinese Factory Running at One-Fifth Capacity
Lotus wants the headline this week to be about a supercar. A new hybrid V8...
Škoda’s New Flagship EV Has Flush Door Handles and a Panoramic Roof. That’s Not the Story.
Škoda’s new Peaq flagship SUV comes with flush door handles, a panoramic roof with electronic...
Kia’s New Mexican-Built EV3 Can Charge Another EV3 on the Roadside. That’s Not a Feature — It’s a Confession
Kia flipped the switch on a new assembly line in Nuevo Leon this week, and...
Honda’s Profit Just Doubled. Its Two Biggest Problems Haven’t Moved An Inch.
Honda’s profit more than doubled last quarter. That’s the version of this story built for...
Ford Killed 10% of Its Own Sales Last Month, and Called It a Good Month, Actually
Ford Motor Company sold 169,951 vehicles in the United States last month. That’s roughly 19,000...
Ford Just Blew Up the Assembly Line It Invented. The Target Is a Used Tesla.
Ford wants you looking at a $30,000 electric truck due in 2027. Look instead at...
A Billion-Dollar Kentucky Battery Plant Went Bankrupt, Got Fined By The DOJ, And Is Now Owned By The Contractor It Never Paid
The Department of Justice just closed the books on a $7.5 million fraud settlement involving...
Tesla’s Test Drives Have No Chaperone. A Torched Hair Salon Just Showed Why That Matters
Tesla doesn’t work that way, and a new $10.3 million lawsuit out of Arlington, Virginia...
BYD’s Humanoid Robot Debuts in August, and the Robot Isn’t the Part That Should Worry Everyone Else
BYD has run this play twice before. In 1995, it started as a battery maker,...
Audi Already Closed One EV Plant. The One It Might Close Next Builds an EV, Too.
Audi already knows what happens to a plant that builds an electric car nobody buys...
BYD Patented A Car That Won’t Start If Something’s Alive Underneath It. That’s Not Even The Real Story
Picture a cold morning outside Shenzhen. A BYD hatchback sits in a driveway, and a...
Kia Just Spent $649 Million To Build an EV It Has No Intention of Selling You
This week, welding robots inside a Kia plant in Nuevo León, Mexico, started getting reprogrammed....
Californians Are Turning Against Newsom’s EV Mandate. Someone Should Tell Them It’s Already Dead.
A new poll making the rounds this week claims nearly two-thirds of Californians oppose Governor...