Chinese EV Batteries Are Eating the World
THE symbolism was clear last June when Emmanuel Macron, surrounded by factory workers, held up a sleek lithium battery in his right hand and a mining lamp in his left. He was in Douai, a…
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How Elon Musk Won His No Good, Very Bad Year
What a weird time to be Elon Musk. This year opened with the businessman turned political operator throwing what appeared, to Nazis at least, to be a Sieg heil. This spring, activists…
Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package
On Thursday, Tesla shareholders approved an unprecedented $1 trillion pay package for CEO Elon Musk. The full compensation plan will go into effect by 2035—assuming Musk and the company…
New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds
The issues could cascade beyond the design. The auto manufacturing industry operates on strict production schedules. Though it builds in time to validate and test whatever new features…
Why Are Car Software Updates Still So Bad?
Despite years of effort and the outlay of billions of dollars, none of the world’s automakers have yet to match Tesla’s prowess in delivering over-the-air (OTA) software updates. Just like…
The Return of Car Choice, Hopefully
Whatever happens to the future of EVs, they should compete on an even playing field with other vehicles. Source link
The Global Car Reckoning Is Here. Far Too Many Auto Companies Don’t Have a Plan
On a drab, overcast March day in Amsterdam in 2022, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares took off his face mask and strode onto a makeshift stage to confidently explain to a crowd of journalists…
Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars
“We build a structural battery out of the cells, and that is the floor of the vehicle. So we actually built the seats on it,” says Field. So, to be clear, there's no frame or structure…
Everything You Wanted to Know About China’s Auto Industry Takeover
What is the future of cars? For one thing, after substantial government support and poaching of top Western talent, China’s car industry is about to dominate globally with charging rates,…
It Looks Like the Tesla Model Y Refresh Has Bombed
Tesla did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment on this article. For Nagley, it's too early to talk about Tesla failing to survive, “but the question is, can they thrive? One of the…
GM’s Final EV Battery Strategy Copies China’s Playbook: Super Cheap Cells
General Motors has just announced its latest and likely final piece in what now appears to be a three-pronged cell-chemistry strategy to power GM’s lineup of a dozen EVs through the end of…
What Makes a Car Lovable? It's Not the Tech, It's the Cup Holders
Nearly 100,000 car buyers of 2025 model-year autos were asked what they thought of their gleaming new rides. The results are revealing, to say the least. Want to know who was the worst…
5 Big EV Takeaways From Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
If you’re an electric vehicle enthusiast, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is anything but. The legislation, signed by the president last…
This Is Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Needed Human Babysitters
“This is a demo or test using safety drivers—it’s not an deployment,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies autonomous vehicles. “Tesla…
Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla’s Model Y
Compare this to the Cybertruck, which pulled in a claimed 146,000 reservations in its first 36 hours, back in 2019. This soon passed 250,000, and Musk went on to claim that “over one…
This Is Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing
According to a new report from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), global EV sales will surpass 20 million in 2025, accounting for more than a quarter of cars sold…
China’s Electric-Vehicle Factories Have Become Tourist Hot Spots
Xiaomi released its first EV model, the SU7, in early 2024. By the end of the year, foreign diplomats, investors, and guests from other Chinese companies had already started arriving at…
The Definitive Story of Tesla Takedown
On a sunny April afternoon in Seattle, around 40 activists gathered at the Pine Box, a beer and pizza bar in the sometimes scruffy Capitol Hill neighborhood. The group had reserved a side…
Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Rolling Out Soon—With One Big Unanswered Question
Self-driving vehicle developers don’t usually love talking about “teleoperation”—when a human guides or drives robot cars remotely. It can feel like a dirty secret. Shouldn’t an autonomous…
Elon Musk’s Feud With President Trump Wipes $152 Billion Off Tesla’s Market Cap
It took only a few hours to wipe $152 billion of value from Tesla’s market cap and more than $100 million in value from TrumpCoin. The end of the bromance between Elon Musk and President…
Bad News for China: Rare Earth Elements Aren’t That Rare
“The heavy rare earth elements are added as sort of a spice, a doping agent, to maintain the magnetism of the magnet at high temperatures. It also improves corrosion resistance and the…
BYD’s Free Self-Driving Tech Might Not Be Such a Boon After All
Strictly speaking, God’s Eye is the camera, ultrasonic radar, and lidar array alone, split into A, B, and C variants, with A being best. The system’s operating software is known as…
Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla
“I’ve defended you guys so much over the years, and you make great products, but even I can’t stick up for you anymore,” she stated. Róbertsdóttir, now a software developer for Icelandic…