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...
Electric Vehicles
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...
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...