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
Ford’s Quarterly Loss Hides a Worse EV Number and a Very Good Trade
Ford’s second quarter produced a $1.3 billion net loss, a raised profit forecast, and a...
Rhode Island Will Send Your Home Address to Firefighters If You Drive an EV
Rhode Island’s DMV is about to start mailing your local fire station a list of...
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…
Mahle’s Diesel Range Extender For Electric Trucks Faces A Bigger Problem Than Physics
Mahle used its Stuttgart media day on July 21 to preview what it will roll...
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...
Detroit’s EV Cowardice: Automakers Don’t Believe In Electric Cars, They Believe In Whoever’s In The White House
Let’s cut through the press-release language. The American auto industry did not “transition” to electric...
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...