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A four-year-old startup with only two vehicles just embarrassed the entire luxury EV establishment. U.S. News & World Report named Lucid Motors the Best Luxury Electric Vehicle Brand for 2025, ranking the American upstart above Tesla, Porsche, BMW, and Rivian. The recognition validates what Lucid has been claiming since its founding: engineering excellence can trump…
Tesla claimed victory on European Full Self-Driving approval. The regulator in charge says that never happened and wants Tesla fans to stop flooding its customer service lines with thank-you messages. The public contradiction exposes an unconventional pressure campaign that one autonomous driving expert called “unheard of” in regulatory history. RDW Disputes Tesla’s February 2026 Promise…
A former General Motors executive who spent 12 years engineering America’s best-selling trucks just delivered a damning verdict on Tesla’s flagship SUV. Terry Woychowski, President of Caresoft Global and former GM Vice President, told Bloomberg that Xiaomi’s YU7 electric SUV has “bested” Tesla’s Model Y “in almost every way.” The assessment comes from one of…
New York State officials are frustrated with Tesla after two years of lease renegotiations for the taxpayer-funded Buffalo factory hit another wall when Elon Musk abruptly killed the AI supercomputer project that was central to the pending deal. The state built the sprawling facility for nearly $1 billion and rents it to Tesla for just…
Germany’s electric vehicle boom is built on a foundation of corporate accounting tricks, not genuine consumer demand. A German industry association warned Monday that nearly one in four newly registered EVs in 2025 were “self-registered” by manufacturers and dealers rather than sold to actual customers. The revelation exposes a troubling gap between official registration statistics…
Tesla has dropped the down payment requirement on Model 3 Premium RWD leases to just $1,500 while maintaining the $299 monthly payment, marking the automaker’s most aggressive pricing move since the federal EV tax credit expired two months ago. The deal represents a 63% reduction in upfront costs compared to the $3,993 down payment Tesla…
Britain’s government unveiled a £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) extension of electric vehicle purchase subsidies on Friday, just hours before confirming plans to impose a per-mile tax on EV drivers starting in 2028—a policy contradiction that exposes the fundamental revenue crisis governments face as electrification eliminates fuel duty income. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce the subsidy…
US clean-energy investments hit a record $75 billion in the third quarter of 2025, driven almost entirely by consumers scrambling to buy electric vehicles before federal tax credits expired on September 30, according to new data from Rhodium Group and MIT. But the headline number conceals a brutal truth: EV manufacturing investments collapsed 30% compared…
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