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The Dutch vehicle authority RDW (Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer) confirmed on March 20, 2026, that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) application is in its final review stage — but the agency stopped well short of committing to any approval date. The statement, published on the RDW’s official website, was a direct response to a post by…
Tesla announced on March 20, 2026, that it has completed the final vehicle testing phase for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in the Netherlands alongside the RDW (Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer, the Dutch vehicle authority), submitting all documentation required for UN R-171 approval and Article 39 exemptions. The RDW has communicated an expected approval date of April…
China’s January-February sales window is always distorted by Lunar New Year. Factories go quiet, showrooms empty, and delivery figures swing 30 to 50 percent on calendar timing alone. Strip out the noise and the picture for Tesla is actually decent: 127,728 China-made EVs sold in the first two months of 2026, up more than 35%…
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…
There is a specific kind of pressure that only works if the audience believes the threat is real. Elon Musk applied it this week at Giga Berlin, where workers vote March 2–4 on whether IG Metall takes control of the factory’s works council. The message, screened for employees on Wednesday, February 25, and published as…
Range claims from China’s test cycle deserve scrutiny. The CLTC (China Light-duty vehicle Test Cycle) consistently produces numbers well above what real-world driving delivers — typically estimated at 20-30% higher than EPA-rated figures. Keep that in mind when reading what BYD‘s luxury brand Denza just announced for the refreshed Z9GT, as reported by CNEVPost on…
The dispute consuming Giga Berlin for weeks just hit pause. Tesla and German union IG Metall reached a truce Thursday in a labor court in Frankfurt (Oder), agreeing to suspend public statements about an alleged secret recording at a February 10 works council meeting — at least until the plant’s works council election concludes Wednesday,…
General Motors has a pattern now. When the last EV startup executive didn’t work out, the solution is to hire the next one. Claudia Gast, most recently Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Lucid Motors, will join GM on March 1 as deputy chief financial officer and vice president of strategy, corporate…
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