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FedEx Bets $160M on EV Startup Founded by Veterans of Failed Companies
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FedEx Bets $160M on EV Startup Founded by Veterans of Failed Companies

The founders of Harbinger Motors have watched EV startups collapse from the inside. Now FedEx is betting they learned the right lessons. Harbinger Motors, a medium-duty electric truck chassis maker led by veterans of failed EV companies Faraday Future, Canoo, and CODA, just closed a $160 million Series C funding round co-led by FedEx. The…

Tesla Faces Q2 Delivery Shortfall but Retains Deutsche Bank’s Buy Rating
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Tesla’s Global Sales Crisis Deepens: Europe Down 48.5%, China at 3-Year Low

Tesla faces sales pressure in all three of the world’s biggest car markets simultaneously, with European registrations plunging 48.5% in October while industry-wide EV sales jumped 26%. The collapse comes as CEO Elon Musk has spent much of 2025 focused on robotics pursuits and winning shareholder approval for his freshly minted $1 trillion pay package.…

Tesla’s German Sales Collapse 55% While BYD Surges in 2025
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Tesla Sells Just 100 Cars In India, Tells Buyers They’ll Save Money In Five Years

Tesla’s India launch is off to a dismal start. The company has sold just over 100 Model Y units since deliveries began in September, and its new pitch to Indian buyers is that they can recover one-third of the $67,000 price tag through fuel and maintenance savings over four to five years, Reuters reports. The…

Diesel’s Death Spiral: PHEVs Outsell Oil-Burners in Europe for the First Time
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European Automakers Push For 2035 Combustion Engine Ban Reprieve As EV Transition Stalls

Europe’s embattled carmakers are hoping for regulatory relief when Brussels unveils an auto sector package on December 10, which could water down an effective ban on new combustion engines initially slated for 2035. The continent’s automakers from Volkswagen to Renault had high hopes for the electric vehicle shift when they set ambitious targets at the…

Tesla Opens World’s Largest Supercharger in California With 164 Solar-Powered Stalls
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Tesla Opens World’s Largest Supercharger in California With 164 Solar-Powered Stalls

The world’s largest Tesla Supercharger is now fully operational in Lost Hills, California, delivering 164 charging stalls powered almost entirely by the sun. Tesla confirmed the completion of its “Oasis” Supercharger station via X, marking a major infrastructure milestone just in time for Thanksgiving travel on one of America’s busiest EV corridors. The station operates…

BMW Mulls Chinese-Style Range Extenders For X5 And 7-Series As China Sales Crater
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BMW Mulls Chinese-Style Range Extenders For X5 And 7-Series As China Sales Crater

BMW is weighing the addition of range-extending engines to some of its vehicles in China, including the X5 SUV and 7-Series sedan, according to people familiar with the matter. The move would make BMW the first German automaker to embrace technology popularized by Chinese competitors like BYD and Li Auto. This isn’t innovation. It’s adaptation…

Tesla Model Y Performance Unleashes 3.3-Second Acceleration Through Aerodynamic Precision, Not Just Power
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Dutch Regulator Denies Tesla’s FSD Approval Claim, Tells Fans To Stop Calling

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…

Xiaomi Enters Electric Vehicle Market with Ambitious Goals
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Former GM VP Says Xiaomi YU7 Beats Tesla Model Y ‘In Almost Every Way’

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…

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