A Couple in Their 80s and 90s Sued Scout Over Blasting at Its $2 Billion Plant. Scout Says Take It Up With the Contractors.
A Blythewood couple, 92 and 84, say construction of Scout Motors’ South Carolina plant drove them from their home. Scout…
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Lucid Promised Bolt 25,000 Robotaxis. Europe Only Lets It Register 1,500 a Year.
Lucid and Bolt say 25,000 driverless Lucids are headed for Europe. The EU's own rules currently cap each driverless vehicle…
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…
Genesis Just Donated $65,000 to Georgia Youth Groups. The Real Payoff Is a Decade Away.
Genesis wants this to read as a warm local-news item: $65,000 split across five youth...
Honda’s Rare-Earth-Free Magnet Bet Is Real. It’s Also the Smallest Check on the Table.
Honda did not just invest in a magnet company this month. It joined a line...
Recycled Carbon Fiber Is Forecast to Nearly Double by 2033 — BMW Just Cut It From the Car That Made It Famous
BMW’s new i3 started rolling out of Plant Munich last month, and it carries a...
BYD’s Pakistan Factory Missed Its Deadline Again — And BYD Isn’t The One Who Should Be Sweating
A car factory in the Sindh desert just blew through another deadline. On its own,...
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...
Honda’s $9.4 Billion Plan To Fight Cheap Chinese EVs Involves Buying More Parts From China
Honda wants to save $9.4 billion by 2030, and it told suppliers this spring to...
Tesla’s New ‘Chip Facility’ in Austin Is Bigger Than the Pentagon — Texas Says It Cost Just $50,000
Somewhere east of Austin, Tesla has filed paperwork for a semiconductor building with more floor...
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...
Lucid Doesn’t Build A Single Car In Canada. Its Stock Still Fell The Hardest.
Monday’s sell-off gave Wall Street a tidy morality play. President Trump threatened to raise tariffs...
Porsche Is Killing the Taycan by 2030. Don’t Blame the Sales Chart.
Porsche’s own factory workers found out before most car buyers did. The Taycan — the...
GM Calls This a Battery Comeback. The Other Two Plants Tell a Different Story.
GM's Ohio battery plant is restarting — 1,400 workers return, cells resume. What the headline doesn't mention: Tennessee already converted…