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....
Electric Vehicles
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...
BMW’s New Mexican-Built EVs Arrive In 2027 — Their Batteries Are Still Just Visiting
BMW says its new Mexican EV plant proves it's serious about the country. But the batteries inside those cars are…
Tesla Just Crossed $100 Billion in Revenue. Its Operating Profit Got Cut By More Than Half.
Tesla’s shareholder letter for the second quarter of 2026 leads with a real number: trailing...
Rivian Just Posted a ‘Profit.’ The Cars Themselves Are Still Losing Money.
Rivian wants investors to notice one number from its first-quarter 2026 report, filed the same...
Rivian Just Learned That ‘The Tariffs Were Illegal’ And ‘You’ll Get Your Money Back’ Are Two Different Sentences
Somewhere inside the U.S. Treasury sits a pile of cash that, according to the Supreme...
BMW’s Next Big EV Is Being Built in a ‘Free Trade’ Country That’s Still Taxed Worse Than Germany
BMW just confirmed that its next electric sedan and crossover will come off the line...
Porsche Just Raised Its Layoff Total to 8,900. The Growth Rate Is the Real Warning Sign
Porsche’s supervisory board didn’t just approve another 5,000 job cuts this week. It quietly admitted...
Mazda and Hyundai Just Turned China Into Their EV Shortcut
Singapore is about to get two electric cars that make the old phrase “Chinese car”...
Congress’s New Bill Would Ban Every Chinese-Made Car in America — Including the One Waymo Swears Isn’t Spying On You
Somewhere in Waymo’s Arizona manufacturing facility, a new robotaxi called the Ojai is getting fitted...
Cadillac’s All-Electric Future Is Dead. Long Live the XT6 Nobody Asked to See Again.
Mary Barra didn’t announce new Cadillacs on GM’s second-quarter earnings call this week. She announced...
Powder Coatings Just Became a $3.6 Billion Industry. Your Car’s Paint Job Still Wasn’t Invited
A market research firm sent out a press release this week forecasting that the global...
Volkswagen Wants to Axe Half Its Lineup. It Just Spent Three Years Building the Half It’s About to Kill
Volkswagen had a rough Friday. Group deliveries fell 8.6% in the second quarter to just...
Hyundai Just Turned On a Georgia Battery Plant. The One Down the Coast Is Still Recovering From an ICE Raid
Bartow County, Georgia doesn’t get much attention, and for a few weeks this summer that...
NTSB Says the Tesla That Killed a Katy Grandmother Wasn’t Self-Driving. That’s Not the Relief Tesla Wants It to Be
Tesla did not build the software that killed Martha Avila. That’s the headline finding from...