Britain’s Steering Wheels Are on the Right. That May Be Its Smartest Battery Policy.
Britain is reviewing its EV sales mandate just as a £7 billion battery industry, a locked-in EU trade deadline and…
Electric Vehicles
This 130-Year-Old German Supplier Made Parts Every EV Still Needs. It Filed for Insolvency Anyway.
Prinz-Mayweg made seat, dashboard and steering tubes that electric cars still need. Its insolvency shows what is really squeezing German…
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,…
The EV Maintenance Discount Is Real. It Works Out to About $20 a Month.
AAA's 2026 Your Driving Costs data puts the EV maintenance advantage at about $248 a year. Energy, insurance and depreciation…
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…
Volkswagen Just Wrote Off €6 Billion of Porsche. The 911 Is the Only Porsche Still Growing.
Volkswagen's roughly €6 billion Porsche write-down isn't a verdict on the 911. It's the bill for a China, SUV and…
Bosch’s €270 Million EV Write-Down Explains Nearly All of Its Margin Drop
The world’s largest auto supplier just admitted that some of its factories are ready for...
A Model Y Hit a Wall on I-90. The Lawsuit’s Real Target Is Tesla’s Service Bay.
A Washington driver says his 2022 Model Y lost stability on a wet I-90 after two warranty visits for its…
The Service Bay Pays Your Dealer’s Bills. AutoNation Just Warned It’s Slowing Down.
AutoNation's stock fell 10.5% after a cautious investor talk. The real story is the service bay that earns half of…
Tesla’s Semi Plant Opens, Rivian Recalls Nearly 99,000 EVs, and What Else Moved
Tesla's Semi factory opens, Rivian recalls 98,828 EVs over backup cameras, Geely hits four-minute charging, and the BYD question hangs…
Today in Automotive History: September 23, 2020 — The Order Behind California’s 2035 Gas Car Ban
On Sept. 23, 2020, Newsom signed the order behind the California gas car ban. It never banned a gas car,…
Toyota’s Hydrogen Hilux Finally Shows Up In 2028, Six Years After It Started Testing
Toyota just confirmed that a hydrogen fuel cell version of its new Hilux pickup will...
Volvo Crammed an EV-Sized Battery Into the XC60 Plug-In Hybrid — Brussels Did the Math First
Volvo says its new long-range XC60 and XC90 plug-in hybrids are about electric range. The European Commission's rewritten utility factors…
Stellantis Just Booked the Biggest Booth in Paris. Last Year, It Booked Its Biggest Loss Ever.
Seven months ago, Stellantis told investors it had just recorded the worst year in French...