Photo: Mercedes-Benz The depreciation of electric vehicles is far steeper than data showed just last year. EVs can now lose up to half their value over a single year, based on recent observations. This is a sharp shift from when electric cars were projected in December 2023 to lose half their value in three years. … Read more
Once again, the Tesla Cybertruck is the best-selling vehicle that costs over $100,000. Hurray. It’s a pretty impressive fete when you consider how deeply divisive the truck is. It was part of a wider trend in July of high-priced pickup trucks moving the average transaction price needle across the country. Tesla’s Big Discounts Worked, Sort … Read more
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik I recently got stuck in Amsterdam for two days thanks to the Crowdstrike outage, which gave me a weekend’s worth of time to explore the glorious city. Amsterdam contains 165 canals that total over 60 miles in length, and on the streets that border them you’ll find some of the best carspotting … Read more
Happy Wednesday! It’s August 14, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) 1st Gear: Texas Sues GM Over Data Sales General Motors collected and sold the … Read more
If there’s one thing that you can trust with Elon Musk, it’s that every single new product or feature he talks about inevitably gets delayed. That fully autonomous cross-country road trip that he promised by the end of 2017? Still hasn’t happened. Outside of the new Roadster, though, Tesla does eventually build the cars it … Read more
Photo: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto (Getty Images) Tesla Cybertrucks are proving to be absolutely dogshit when it comes to doing truck stuff. Now, we’ve got another example of just that. A Cybertruck Owners Club forum user made a post at the end of last week detailing the damage his truck sustained by hauling something it was supposed … Read more
Shawn Fain and the United Auto Workers union filed an unfair labor practices charge against Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s campaign on August 13. The move comes after the gruesome twosome advocating for firing striking employees during an interview on X. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) Firing striking employees or threatening to do … Read more
Instead of focusing on Tesla’s plummeting profits and sales slump, CEO Elon Musk is busy suing various companies and organizations for taking issue with his bigotry. The lawsuits are generally laughable, but he does have an ace up his sleeve — a Texas judge who’s proven to be incredibly friendly to Musk. NPR reports the … Read more
Happy Monday! It’s August 12, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Tesla Had A Very Interesting Week 1st Gear: Musk Backs Trump, But Tesla Lobbies Against His Policies Elon Musk … Read more
The Tesla Cybertruck has been a menace on America’s roads ever since it finally went on sale late last year. The angular electric vehicle has been causing a ruckus in Maine, has been bricked by car washes and has failed at basic truck stuff. Now, one budding car modder has uncovered a neat way to … Read more
