Wednesday Morning Auto News, May 15, 2024: Tesla to lay off an additional 601. Renault shifts to self-driving minibuses. Cruise settles for $8 mln. More.

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Tuesday Morning Auto News, May 14, 2024: Feds probe Waymo robotaxis. Toyota and Nissan develop next-gen EV batteries. SpaceX slow to pay its bills. More.

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Monday Morning Auto News, May 13, 2024: Feds probe Amazon-owned Zoox cars. Hong Kong warns of Elon Musk deepfake crypto scams. China auto exports soar. More.

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Friday Morning Auto News, May 10, 2024: Musk too busy for SEC probe, judge not amused. Biden expected to unveil tariffs on Chinese EVs. More.

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Tesla: Deutschland, Deutschland unter alles.

April was a good month in Germany. Passenger vehicle registrations jumped one fifth in Europe’s largest auto market. What did people buy? Mostly gasoline-powered cars, sales of the allegedly dead vehicles jumped 18.6% YOY. The second-best seller was hybrid cars, up a strong 26.4%. Battery-electric vehicles weren’t part of the party, BEV registrations flatlined at 0.2%.

For Tesla, April was a disastrous month. The proud owner of a factory near Berlin was down a gut-wrenching 32% YOY in April. Tesla moved only 1,637 units in the month, which landed them among the also-rans, out-sold by the dinosaurs  Elon Musk vowed to disrupt.

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