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Full-year 2025 registration data from the California New Car Dealers Association confirms what quarterly reports suggested all year: Tesla suffered the steepest market share decline of any automaker in America’s largest EV market. The company’s share of all vehicles registered in California fell from 11.6% in 2024 to 9.9% in 2025, a 1.7-percentage-point drop that…
The internal documents tell one story. Tesla’s press statement tells another. According to works council election records obtained by German business daily Handelsblatt, Giga Berlin’s headcount dropped from 12,415 in 2024 to 10,703 today. That’s 1,712 fewer workers. A 14% decline. Tesla’s response? “Compared to 2024, there has been no significant reduction in the number…
Five months ago, Elon Musk called Dojo an “evolutionary dead end” and disbanded the entire team. Now he wants to put it in orbit. The whiplash is real. Over the long weekend, Musk announced on X that Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. The twist? This time it…
Finnish electric motorcycle maker Verge Motorcycles and its technology spinoff Donut Lab just announced the world’s first production vehicle with solid-state batteries at CES 2026. The $30,000 TS Pro promises 200+ miles of range, sub-10-minute charging, and 100,000 charge cycles. There’s just one problem: the company has shared zero technical data, zero third-party validation, and…
After months of testing competitors and hearing claims that the EV market has caught up to Tesla, tech reviewer Marques Brownlee from Auto Focus got behind the wheel of the 2026 Model Y Performance. His verdict cuts through both the hype and the criticism: Tesla still leads in areas most buyers will actually use daily,…
When a logistics company that’s been hauling materials for Tesla since 2012 decides to buy Tesla’s own electric truck, that’s not a press release. That’s a verdict. RoadOne IntermodaLogistics just announced it’s expanding from one Tesla Semi to potentially ten units serving its Oakland, California operations, and the real-world performance numbers explain exactly why. The…
Three months after Tesla launched its most affordable Model Y variant, a customer-owned example has finally been spotted on public roads. Tesla enthusiast Sawyer Merritt shared photos on X showing a Diamond Black Model Y Standard driving through traffic, marking what appears to be the first documented sighting of a customer vehicle. The images, which…
Five years ago, Elon Musk told Tesla owners their Full Self-Driving software would be worth “somewhere in excess of $100,000” once regulatory approval arrived. Yesterday, he announced Tesla will stop selling FSD entirely after February 14, forcing everyone onto a $99 monthly subscription. The appreciating asset just became a perpetual rental fee. For the thousands…
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