- Elon Musk’s Trump fallout poses deepening risks to Tesla, SpaceX – Axios
- Tesla Was China’s Favorite EV Brand. Now It’s Stuck Playing Catch-up – Wall Street Journal
- Porsche Deliveries Fall on Weakness in China and Germany – Wall Street Journal
- Porsche warns of challenging second half after 6% sales decline – Automotive News
- Daimler Truck Expects Significant Job Cuts in Germany – Wall Street Journal
- Lamborghini Follows Ferrari By Delaying Major EV Launch – Autoblog
- Daimler to Begin Assembling Mercedes Trucks in Senegal This Year – Bloomberg
- Daimler Truck targets 3-5% organic sales growth in industrial business through 2030 – Reuters
- China’s Car Inc launches self-driving rental service with Baidu’s Apollo – Reuters
- Jaecoo and Omoda owner launches Chery as third UK brand – Autocar
- China’s Chery brand to launch in Britain with two new SUVs – Reuters
- New Kia EV5: VW ID 4 rival lands in Europe ahead of 2026 launch – Autocar
- NHTSA opens recall query into about 1.2 million Stellantis trucks – Bnnbloomberg
- Nissan shares walloped after it boosts planned issuance of convertible bonds – Reuters
- Porsche’s sales fall globally in first half, China leads slump – Reuters
- Trump announces 25-40% tariffs on 14 countries – Chinadaily
Tuesday Morning Auto News, Jul 08, 2025: Musk’s risky Trump fallout. Tesla was China’s favorite EV. Porsche deliveries weak. More.
Monday Morning Auto News, Jul 07, 2025: Trump says Musk went off the rails. Musk running out of road in China. America Party toxic for Tesla shares. More.
- Trump Says Musk Is ‘Off the Rails’ With America Party Effort – New York Times
- Elon Musk Is Running Out of Road in China – Wall Street Journal
- Tesla Stock Slides After Trump Slates Musk’s New Political Party – Wall Street Journal
- Tesla slides as Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’ sparks investor worries – Bnnbloomberg
- We Took Our 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid Sedan on a 3,000-Mile Road Trip Back Home – Motortrend
- Next Lamborghini Urus to keep hybrid power as EV delayed – Autocar
- America Party could force Tesla’s board to intervene, warns Dan Ives – Fortune
- NHTSA opens recall query into about 1.2 million Stellantis trucks – Reuters
- Geely Automobile enters MoU with Zhejiang Geely and Volvo Car Corp? – Reuters
- Foxconn in talks with Nissan to save Japanese factory from closure, reports say – Automotive News
- Daimler Truck reports 5% decline in Q2 sales – Reuters
- CNBC Daily Open: Elon Musk, founder of companies and political parties – CNBC
- EV battery maker’s profits more than double on back of Biden-era tax break – FT
- Chinese carmakers shifting gears with global factory push – Chinadaily
Germany BEV Monthly 6/25: Tesla self-drives into the abyss.
Tesla’s logarithmic growth (that’s the inverse of exponential growth, in case you slept through it in school, like yours truly) continues in Germany. According to data released today by Germany’s automotive scorekeeper Kraftfahrt Bundesamt KBA, Tesla continues to dawdle in the bottom tier of German BEV registrations.
Tesla’s June 2025 sales were down 60% YOY in Germany, down 58.2% Jan-June. And that’s not because Germans forsake the battery-operated car. All BEVs were up 8.6%, it’s just that Tesla fell heavily out of favor. Brand kaputt, courtesy of the big destructor who’s starting a second career in politics.
The Top Ten of Germany’s BEV sales are dominated by the legacy dinosaur Volkswagen Tesla vowed to destroy. The allegedly refreshed Model Y, on which heavy-duty hopes of Tesla boosters were pinned, keeps disappointing. It landed on place 10 of the seller list, outranked by a Hyundai.
Friday Morning Auto News, Jul 04, 2025: Is Tesla in Trouble? Musk burns gas to power Grok, lost to Trump, can’t get over it. More.
- Is Tesla in Trouble? Musk Is Betting on Robotaxi Future as TSLA Sales Fall – Bloomberg
- Musk’s xAI scores permit for gas-burning turbines to power Grok supercomputer in Memphis – CNBC
- Elon Musk Lost to Trump. He Can’t Get Over It. – Wall Street Journal
- Elon Musk’s xAI gets permit for methane gas generators – Guardian
- UK’s EV sales grow again in June – but 28% target still not hit – Autocar
- Citroen C3 Pluriel: are you overlooking this £1000 quirky cabrio? – Autocar
- Deutsche Bank, SeaTown Join VinFast’s $510 Million Private Debt – Bloomberg
- New hybrid Fiat 500 to cost 17,000 euros, brand CEO says – Reuters
- Samsung’s Texas blues and BYD’s lead over Tesla – Nikkei
- Alpine hires Steve Nielsen as new managing director – New York Times
- AGL Energy buys South Australia’s Virtual Power Plant from Tesla – Reuters
- Cadillac Lyriq Gets Pricier in 2026—But You Get More Tech for It – Autoblog
- Suzuki Is Becoming a Top Japan Importer With Made-in-India Cars – Bloomberg
- Tesla’s UK sales rise 12% in June from a year ago, New AutoMotive data shows – Reuters
- Black Honda Worker Must Fix Class Claims in Promotion-Bias Suit – Bloomberglaw
Thursday Morning Auto News, Jul 03, 2025: Tesla in disarray, sales down. Japanese OEMs absorb tariff shock. BYD builds in Brazil. More.
- Tesla Is in Disarray. Musk Has Already Moved Beyond Caring About Cars. – Wall Street Journal
- Tariffs test Japanese carmakers’ shock absorbing powers – FT
- BYD begins output at major car plant in Brazil – Automotive News
- Tesla’s German car sales continue to fall in June – Reuters
- Hong Kong court quashes government decision to refuse permits to 2 Uber drivers – SCMP
- Mazda Canada pivots to imports with tariffs keeping CX-50 out of lineup – Automotive News
- Volvo Cars delays large-scale production at new plant in Slovakia – Reuters
- Tesla Stock Diehards Don’t Give an Inch – Wall Street Journal
- China’s Geely Brand Enters Italy With All-Electric, Hybrid SUVs – Bloomberg
- Tesla Stock Rises. Can Robots Trump Cars? – Barrons
- Ariel Atom celebrates 25th birthday with wild 525bhp special edition – Autocar
- Audi Resists US Price Hikes as 19% Sales Drop Adds to Tariff Woe – Bloomberg
- Column: Tesla to profit from Canada’s ZEV mandate, even as other federal policies punish it – Automotive News
- Savannah Bet Its Economy on a Big Hyundai Plant. Now It Has to Find the Workers – Bloomberg
- Polestar to build BMW iX1, Mercedes EQA rival in Europe – Automotive News
- Nissan recalls nearly 38K vehicles in Canada – Bnnbloomberg