Good morning! It’s Monday, June 3, 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’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived 1st Gear: Elon Musk Accused Of Insider Trading It never rains, but it … Read more
For the past few years now, the magic number when it comes to electric cars’ range has been 300 miles, but many of the models that have been able to hit that target have been either too compromised, too niche or most importantly too expensive. With the average price of a new car having reached … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, May 31, 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. Ultra Cruise is GM’s Answer to Tesla’s So-Called ‘Full Self-Driving’ 1st Gear: GM And Ford Don’t See Eye-To-Eye … Read more
Image: Mark J. Terrill (AP) After some years, the automotive industry finally came together to agree on the automotive equivalent of the USB: the North American Charging Standard. Essentially everyone fell in line and agreed to use Tesla as the standard since the brand has an impressive network of Supercharging stations. While some brands have … Read more
Over the past few years, former President and current felon Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have become more and more aligned when it comes to political stances. Now, it’s being reported that Musk may actually take some sort of advisory role should Trump be reelected this November. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived Musk … Read more
Image: Cadillac Cadillac may have shocked some when it revealed its entry-level EV in the Optiq back in late 2023. While the brand just showed us how it looked back in November, it didn’t reveal any other details. That’s changed, as Cadillac has finally revealed more specs and features about its newest small EV, including … Read more
The Tesla Cybertruck’s launch has been far from smooth, to say the least. We’ve heard about the time a car wash bricked a Cybertruck, the frunk’s taste for fingers and that coolant leaks aren’t covered by the warranty even if you’ve only driven 35 miles since taking delivery. Those are all legitimate problems that anyone … Read more
It was only a matter of time before someone in a Tesla Cybertruck crashed into a crowd at a sideshow. While attempting to do some sort of reverse donut thing (I think) at a gathering in Chicago, a dark copper-wrapped Cybertruck backed right into a crowd of onlookers as a couple of people hung out … Read more
From layoffs at Tesla, Rivian and others to big price cuts on the Ford F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E, Hertz selling off its fleet of electric vehicles, Tesla’s deliveries being down and even Volkswagen delaying the ID7’s U.S. launch, it could be easy to get the impression that the EV industry is dying. As Bloomberg … Read more
Are these Tesla bots responsible for the shoddiest build quality out there? Photo: Mason Trinca for The Washington Post (Getty Images) It takes a lot to build a car, you’ve got to have wheels and engines and seats and all kinds of body panels that fit together seamlessly to create something that’s safe to hit … Read more
