Toyota’s Electric Highlander Misses Its Second Deadline, and This Time Toyota Won’t Even Guess a Third
Toyota didn’t just push back the electric Highlander again. It did something more revealing: it...
Electric Vehicles
BYD Isn’t Really Betting On Robot Hands — It’s Cashing In On Something It Already Owned For Free
Every automaker eventually discovers it owns more than cars. BYD just discovered it owns something...
Uber Cut 3,300 Jobs the Same Day It Put Driverless Mustangs on London’s Streets. That’s Not a Coincidence.
On September 2, Uber’s newsroom quietly published two stories within hours of each other. One...
Toyota’s $283.7M Vietnam Expansion Is a Hybrid Plan, Not an EV Plant
Toyota just put another $283.7 million into Vietnam, and the paperwork that made it official...
BYD’s Profit Jumped 30% While Sales Fell — Turns Out That Was the Plan
BYD wants the world to read this week’s earnings as an export success story. Look...
Ascend Elements Got ‘Fined’ $7.5 Million by the DOJ — But Never Paid a Single Dime
Ascend Elements finally has a face to go with the wreckage in western Kentucky. Last...
Honda and Nissan’s Merger Collapsed — So They’re Quietly Merging Their Computers Instead
In February of 2025, one of the biggest corporate marriages in automotive history died in...
China’s #1 Bestselling Car Just Failed Its Own Safety Audit — And That’s Not Even the Scary Part
Somewhere in a Chinese testing facility, a government inspector measured the wheelbase on a Geely...
Volvo’s New OTA Update Lets Its EVs Warn Each Other About Deer
Volvo has been quietly running one of the most interesting experiments in the industry for...
Toyota China Sales Fall 24% As Fuel Costs Push Buyers To EVs
Toyota built its empire on a simple promise: buy the boring one, save money on...
A Belgian Chip Deal With BYD Reveals How EVs Really Get Sourced
Melexis signing a purchase agreement with BYD is, on its face, the least exciting automotive...
Rocket-Powered EV Dies With Chinese Vacuum Maker’s Car Division
A Chinese company that makes very good robot vacuums told the world it would build...
VW’s Layoffs Could Hit 140,000. The Family That Controls the Company Already Wrote Off the Loss and Went Shopping for Drones
Volkswagen wants the headline to be about jobs. On August 24, labor representatives told employees...
Dolly Parton’s Last Automotive Venture Was Built for Truckers, Road-Trippers, and EV Drivers
The singer’s Tennessean Travel Stop brought fuel, truck amenities, food, retail, and EV charging together...
Right to Repair Just Won in Congress. Don’t Celebrate Yet.
On May 21, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48 to 1 to advance...