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Cox Automotive’s Q4 2025 Kelley Blue Book EV Sales Report landed this morning, and while the headline numbers look familiar, the underlying story is anything but. Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3 still dominate the top two positions, but the real drama unfolds when you compare the first nine months of 2025 to Q4. The…
Nearly 20,000 Rivian R1T and R1S owners just discovered their vehicles may have a ticking time bomb in the rear suspension, and the culprit isn’t a manufacturing defect. It’s Rivian’s own service technicians. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed on January 8, 2026, that Rivian is recalling 19,641 vehicles because of a rear suspension…
Tesla is finally getting its chance to prove Full Self-Driving works on European roads. But the safety concerns that kept regulators cautious haven’t gone anywhere. The Dutch vehicle authority RDW will begin supervised testing of Tesla’s FSD system in February 2026, according to Reuters. This comes after months of back-and-forth between Tesla and European regulators,…
I’ve been tracking this collision for months, and now it’s official: the company that defined the EV revolution just lost its crown while Wall Street threw a party. Tesla’s 2025 deliveries dropped 8.6% to 1.64 million vehicles, handing BYD the title of world’s largest electric vehicle maker by a margin of more than 620,000 units.…
Tesla just validated its most unusual bet: turning Supercharger stops into lifestyle destinations. The company’s Hollywood Diner has now sold over 80,000 burgers since opening in July 2025, generating $1.08 million in revenue according to Tesla’s 2025 year-end recap shared by Sawyer Merritt. Here’s why this matters more than the headline suggests: Elon Musk promised…
Tesla’s 9 millionth vehicle—a white Model Y—rolled off the line at Giga Shanghai today, and the timing says everything about where this company stands heading into 2026. The milestone took just 207 days to reach from the 8 millionth car, which was an Ultra Red Model Y produced at Giga Berlin on June 6, 2025.…
I’ve been warning about this moment since September. Tesla just made it official: the tax credit pull-forward we documented is now showing up in the company’s own numbers, and even Tesla’s unprecedented promotional blitz couldn’t fill the demand vacuum. In a first-of-its-kind move, Tesla publicly posted a consensus of 20 analyst delivery estimates directly on…
I’ve been covering Tesla’s door handle safety crisis since September, and with NHTSA now opening a probe into 179,071 Model 3 sedans, the pattern we’ve documented has officially become a regulatory priority. The real story here isn’t another investigation headline. It’s that if you own a 2022 Model 3, you may have no idea that…
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