Tesla loses its EV quality edge

Tesla loses its EV quality edge

A dog looks out the window from a Tesla electric vehicle charging at a Tesla Supercharger location in Santa Monica, California on May 15, 2024.  Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Tesla is losing its lead over legacy automakers in the quality of its new all-electric vehicles, according to an annual influential study … Read more

Micron slides, Amazon’s $2 trillion

Micron slides, Amazon’s  trillion

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during morning trading on March 4, 2024 in New York City.  Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need … Read more

Amazon enters $2 trillion club

Micron slides, Amazon’s  trillion

Traders walk the floor during morning trading at the New York Stock Exchange on May 14, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what … Read more

Rivian investment a ‘catch-up move’ for Volkswagen, advisory firm says

Rivian investment a ‘catch-up move’ for Volkswagen, advisory firm says

Rivian electric vehicles sit in a lot at a Rivian facility in February 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images Volkswagen’s $5 billion investment in electrical vehicle startup Rivian is a “catch-up move” for the German automaker, but could take years to pay off, according to Cyrus Mewawalla, … Read more

U.S. auto sales are expected to slow during the second half of 2024

U.S. auto sales are expected to slow during the second half of 2024

Cars sit on a Chevrolet dealership’s lot on June 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. A cyber attack on CDK Global, a software provider that helps dealerships manage sales and service, has crippled the workflow at approximately 15,000 dealerships across the United States and Canada.  Scott Olson | Getty Images DETROIT – U.S. auto sales through … Read more

Tesla recalls Cybertruck to fix faulty windshield wipers, loose trim

Tesla recalls Cybertruck to fix faulty windshield wipers, loose trim

The Tesla Cybertruck is unveiled at Tesla’s design studio on Nov. 21, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif.  Ringo H.W. Chiu | AP Tesla has issued two more recalls for its Cybertruck pickups in the U.S., as the automaker continues to face challenges with its newest electric vehicle about six months after beginning deliveries. The latest recalls … Read more

Nvidia is little known despite topping $3 trillion in market cap

Nvidia is little known despite topping  trillion in market cap

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes a speech at an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google were the four leading global brands at the end of 2023, according to consulting firm Interbrand. They’re are also four of the world’s five most valuable companies. … Read more

Tesla has downsized by at least 14% this year, internal number shows

Tesla has downsized by at least 14% this year, internal number shows

Elon Musk speaking during the Tesla Annual Shareholder’s meeting in Austin, Texas on June 13th, 2024.  Source: Tesla Inc.  Tesla’s hefty downsizing in 2023 has reduced its global headcount to just over 121,000 people, including temps, internal records suggest, indicating that the automaker has slashed more than 14% of its workforce so far this year. … Read more

China spent $230 billion to build its electric car industry, CSIS says

China spent 0 billion to build its electric car industry, CSIS says

Workers assemble a Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, an all-electric microcar manufactured by SAIC-GM-Wuling, at a plant of the joint automaker in Qingdao in east Chinas Shandong province Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — China spent $230.8 billion over more than a decade to develop its electric car … Read more

Kinetic rolls out robots to fix electric cars, and someday robotaxis

Kinetic rolls out robots to fix electric cars, and someday robotaxis

Kinetic cofounders: CEO Nikhil Naikal, CTO Sander Marques, COO Chris Weber Courtesy: Kinetic Automation While electric vehicle demand is still increasing in the U.S., the sales growth rate for cars that pollute less has cooled down in 2024 due partly to the high cost of insurance and repairs for tech-laden new models. A 2024 study … Read more