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NHTSA says the Tesla Model Y is the first car to pass its new safety tests. The agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Teslas for crashing.

  The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to pass NHTSA’s new advanced driver assistance safety tests. The same agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Tesla vehicles for crashing while using the company’s more advanced self-driving system. The announcement celebrates Tesla for passing a test that measures […]

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Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.

  The person who connected Jeff Bezos to one of the most ambitious electric vehicle startups in America has left its board. Melinda Lewison, who manages the Bezos family office and was listed as a director on Slate Auto’s corporate filings, has departed the company’s board months before its first truck is scheduled to roll […]

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Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built. Read More »

Tesla trademarked a supercar badge for a car it promised nine years ago. The logo is the most tangible thing about the Roadster.

  Tesla has filed a trademark for a bespoke Roadster badge that looks like it belongs on a Lamborghini. The car it will adorn was first promised nine years ago. A prototype debuted in November 2017 with a 200 kilowatt-hour battery, a claimed 620-mile range, a 1.9-second zero-to-60 time, and a starting price of 200,000 […]

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Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

When Rivian went public in November 2021, Amazon owned 20 per cent of the company. It had backed the electric vehicle startup with a 700 million dollar cheque in 2019, ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans, and watched its investment surge to more than 15 billion dollars on Rivian’s first day of trading. Four years later, […]

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Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build. Read More »

Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through

Elon Musk’s public confidence about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving rollout in Europe is, on the available evidence, not shared by the European regulators who would actually have to approve it. Reuters published an exclusive analysis of regulator emails and records on Tuesday, showing that several EU national authorities have expressed sustained skepticism toward FSD’s claimed safety […]

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Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it

Tesla is now selling Chinese-made Model 3 sedans in Canada at the lowest price the car has ever been offered in the country. The Model 3 Premium RWD, manufactured at Giga Shanghai, starts at C$39,490, roughly US$29,000. Two months ago, the cheapest Model 3 available in Canada was the Long Range AWD built at Tesla’s […]

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The EVs America is losing in 2026 are not failing. They are being tariffed out of existence.

  At least a dozen electric vehicle models have been discontinued, paused, or cancelled in the United States this year. The list includes some of the most recognisable names in the industry: Tesla’s Model S and Model X, Honda’s entire 0 Series, the Volvo EX30, the BMW i4 and iX, the Hyundai Kona Electric and […]

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The EVs America is losing in 2026 are not failing. They are being tariffed out of existence. Read More »

Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.

The flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan took seven minutes. By car, depending on the time of day, the same journey takes between 60 and 120 minutes. On Friday, Joby Aviation landed its all-electric air taxi at the heliport as part of a demonstration hosted […]

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Porsche built one of the best electric SUVs ever made, and does not expect the world to buy enough of them

Summary: Porsche unveiled the Cayenne Coupe Electric at Auto China in Beijing, a 1,139 hp electric SUV that does 0-60 in 2.4 seconds with up to 669 km WLTP range and 16-minute fast charging, starting at $113,800. It launches during the worst financial year in Porsche’s history, a 93% operating profit decline, a first-ever quarterly […]

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High gas prices are not saving Tesla. They are just slowing the bleeding.

Summary: US petrol prices passed $4/gallon for the first time in four years (+30% YoY), driven by the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz disruption. Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles in Q1 2026, up 6% against a weak comparison quarter but missing estimates by 7,600 units. Consumer EV interest is rising (Edmunds: 23.8% consideration) but overall […]

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