Employees on the assembly line produce cars in Mazda’s “Family” line of vehicles at China First Automobile Works (FAW) Group Haima Automobile Co., Ltd. April 6, 2005 in Haikou, Hainan Province, China. China Photos | Getty Images DETROIT – The traditional Detroit automakers – General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis – should exit the Chinese … Read more
Henrik Fisker stands with the Fisker Ocean electric vehicle after it was unveiled at the Manhattan Beach Pier ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show and AutoMobilityLA on November 16, 2021 in Manhattan Beach, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Fisker on Monday became the latest all-electric vehicle startup to file for … Read more
Employees assemble new energy vehicles at an intelligent factory of electric vehicle company Leapmotor on April 8, 2024 in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Europe’s probe into Chinese electric cars was overly selective to the point that the results are not credible, a Chinese official … Read more
A used 2020 Tesla Model 3 is available for sale on a CarMax lot on March 10, 2022 in Burbank, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Back in February, used electric vehicle prices dipped below used gasoline-powered vehicle prices for the first time ever, and the pricing cliff keeps getting steeper … Read more
The Chinese auto sector is increasingly making global automakers and politicians hot under the collar. In the early 1980s, the Chinese auto industry barely existed. Today the country has the capacity to make about 40 million vehicles annually — enough to supply half the world. Only about 25 million cars sold in the country in … Read more
A mockup of Tesla Inc.’s planned humanoid robot Optimus on display during the Seoul Mobility Show in Goyang, South Korea, on Thursday, March 30, 2023. The motor show will continue through April 9. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The entire value of the S&P 500 currently stands at … Read more
Tesla shareholders on Thursday voted to ratify CEO Elon Musk’s mammoth 2018 pay plan, five months after a judge in Delaware ordered the company to rescind the package, finding it had been improperly granted by the board. At Tesla’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas, the vote in support of the compensation plan, doesn’t override the … Read more
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X speaks during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024. David Swanson | Reuters Tesla’s annual meeting on Thursday in Austin, Texas, will feature a final vote on a contentious proposal … Read more
Solugen makes water treatment chemicals and others from renewable feedstock. Todd Spoth for Solugen A Houston-based startup called Solugen has locked in a $214 million loan commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy via the program that’s most famous for financing electric vehicle maker Tesla in its early years. According to Solugen CEO Gaurab Chakrabarti … Read more
The new Tesla Model 3+ is on sale at a Tesla store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, September 26, 2023. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Tesla on Thursday said it will likely increase the Europe prices of its Model 3 vehicle from July 1 after the European Union said it could impose provisional higher … Read more
