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The vacant lot next to Fred Ippolito’s Volkswagen dealership in West Islip, New York, says more about the current state of auto retail than any industry report. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ippolito bought it four years ago, convinced Scout Motors would need dealer partners to move its American-built trucks and SUVs. Today it’s…
The Austin mass shooting that killed three people and wounded more than a dozen on March 1 has now drawn Tesla into a civil lawsuit — one that alleges the company ignored warning signs about the gunman’s behavior long before he opened fire. Key facts from the CBS News report: Tesla’s Austin Facility at the…
February registration numbers from across Europe show Tesla posting some of its best year-on-year gains in months. Norway was up 75.6%, France up 55%, Spain up 74%, according to registration data published by Automotive World. On paper, that reads like a genuine recovery. The problem is the floor those numbers are measured against: January 2026…
The most revealing thing about the Rivian Adventure Department (RAD) is not what it builds. It is that Rivian felt the need to formalize it at all. Rivian announced RAD on March 1, 2026, as first reported by Gizmodo. The company described it as a skunkworks operation, a small team doing lower-profile work that has…
Tesla’s latest over-the-air push, software update 2026.2.9, is a substantial release. It includes FSD (Supervised) v14.2.2.5 with functional changes to the neural network vision encoder, new Speed Profiles, and Arrival Options, among other additions. But buried inside is one section that has nothing to do with how any feature works: two names are gone, and…
The Dutch vehicle authority RDW has apparently told Tesla that March 20 is the target date for regulatory approval of FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands. That came straight from Elon Musk, who mentioned it during an interview at Giga Berlin. If it holds, the Netherlands would become the first European market to greenlight Tesla’s latest…
The 69 Eastex Freeway overpass in Houston has a Y-shaped split. One path curves right. The other ends at a concrete barrier above a freeway drop. According to a new lawsuit filed in Harris County district court, a Tesla Cybertruck running on autopilot chose the barrier. On the 69 Eastex Freeway, the Cybertruck Went Straight…
The documents don’t lie. When the Justice Department released what it described as millions of pages from its Jeffrey Epstein investigation on January 30, 2026, Elon Musk was not a peripheral name. He was a frequent correspondent. So was his brother Kimbal Musk, who sits on Tesla’s board. What those emails show directly contradicts the…
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