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Tesla beat Q2 delivery estimates and the stock fell. Wednesday’s earnings face the same problem.

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, beating Wall Street estimates with a 25% year-on-year increase. The stock dropped. That reaction tells you everything about where expectations sit ahead of Wednesday’s earnings report. A beat is now the baseline. If exceeding delivery targets does not trigger a rally, meeting or slightly beating bottom-line earnings […]

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Ford’s $30,000 electric truck: all the news about the company’s big EV re-do

The end of the Ford F-150 Lightning was also the start of a new era for the automaker. After failing to capture the market with the electric version of its popular F-Series truck, Ford is going back to the drawing board with its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform. The first offering will be a $30,000 electric […]

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EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel.

Electric cars outsold every other fuel type in Germany for the first time in June. The country’s Federal Motor Transport Authority recorded 84,057 new EV registrations, a 78.2% year-on-year increase, putting battery-electric vehicles at 28.4% market share. Traditional hybrids came second with 83,315 registrations (28.1%), followed by petrol at 60,796 (20.5%), diesel at 33,862 (11.4%), […]

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China’s car market is heading for its worst year since 2021. Sales fell 20% in the first half.

China’s passenger car sales fell 20.2% in the first half of 2026 to 8.7 million units, and the China Passenger Car Association has lowered its full-year forecast to a 14% decline, projecting 20.4 million deliveries, down from a record 23.7 million in 2025. Citic CLSA’s Xiao Feng expects a 20% full-year drop. “This is going […]

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Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.

Bentley recorded a V8 in a studio, analysed it, and discovered that rhythm, not mechanical tone, is what makes the engine emotionally compelling. To test the theory, the team set up parabolic speakers with the V8 playing on one side and a live drummer on the other. Walking between the two revealed striking similarities in […]

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Chinese car sales in the UK jumped from 384 in 2015 to 285,000 last year. The tariff gap explains why.

Brits bought 384 Chinese-made vehicles in 2015. Last year, they bought 285,000, according to automotive consulting firm Mobility Global. The growth is accelerating. BYD nearly doubled its UK sales in the first half of 2026 to over 37,000 units, and Chinese brands collectively hold roughly 13% of new car registrations in Britain, double their share […]

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Xpeng debuted its flying car in Germany. It has 7,000 orders and a factory that can build 10,000 a year.

Xpeng debuted the Land Aircraft Carrier at a launch event in Munich on Wednesday, the first time the Chinese automaker has shown its modular flying car outside Asia. The vehicle is a six-wheeled ground unit, called the Mothership, with a detachable two-seat eVTOL flight module that stows in the back. The six-rotor flying module uses […]

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Amazon’s Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove into heavy smoke at an active fire scene

Amazon’s Zoox voluntarily recalled software in 105 of its robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle drove into heavy smoke at an active emergency fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20. The smoke obscured the scene, which had not been cordoned off with cones. The vehicle entered, braked hard while attempting to steer away, and came […]

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Is America ready for this quirky Jeep-looking EV that can park itself?

Are we living through a small car renaissance? There’s the Slate Truck, Amble’s dune buggy, and the Fiat Topolino, as well as a whole galaxy of kei cars and trucks from Japan that have their own built-in fan base. While microcar sales in the US are still as tiny as the vehicles themselves, there are […]

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Volkswagen enters the robotaxi race with a shared shuttle service in Hamburg

Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary Moia has begun offering rides in self-driving ID Buzz vans to preregistered residents in Hamburg, marking the first time a major European automaker has launched an autonomous passenger service on its home continent. Up to five vehicles are operating at initial launch, with the fleet expected to expand to 10, and […]

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