A look inside Slate’s Michigan design studio and prototype facility
We took a tour inside Slate Auto’s Michigan headquarters, design studio, and prototype facility — where the company is designing its mid-$20,000 electric truck before it begins production at the end o...
Slate Auto CEO Chris Barman tells us how exactly it’s making a $25,000 EV
Slate Automotive CEO Chris Barman is entering an increasingly crowded American electric vehicle market with a rare proposal: delivering an electric truck that costs only about $25,000, without any tax...
In six months, Ford has issued more safety recalls than any automaker has in a full year, ever
Earlier this week, issued a safety recall for 850,000 SUVs and pickups over a fuel pump issue. The automaker is no stranger to the process. Through the end of June, it issued 88 safety recalls, the m...
Chinese EV maker Nio climbs as presales of its cheap new SUV and Tesla rival kick off
Chinese EV maker closed up 6% in Hong Kong on Friday, while its ADRs have ticked up more than 6% in the US Friday morning. Investors are cheering the successful launch of presales for its three-row O...
One of Lucid’s EVs went 749 miles on just one charge, 100 miles ahead of the previous record
After a bumper road trip from the Swiss alpine resort town of St. Moritz to Munich in Germany, the California-based carmaker has put some serious distance between itself and its EV competition. But ju...
Musk to Tesla analyst Ives: “Shut up, Dan”
Earlier today, Wedbush Securities analyst and Tesla bull Dan Ives laid out a pretty nuanced case for the Tesla board to tighten the reins on CEO Elon Musk, saying it needed to “act now and set the gro...
Porsche is getting crushed in China as deliveries slip again
Porsche just announced delivery figures for the first half of the year and, like a lot of other European luxury car companies recently , stalling sales in China remain a big issue for the German brand...
Japanese automakers hit a speed bump on Trump’s latest tariff threat
Japanese car companies are trading lower on Monday following President Trump’s proposed 25% tariff on goods from Japan and South Korea. Shares of , , , and other major automakers from the US’s fifth-l...
Stellantis falls, kicking the week off with a trifecta of bad news
Jeep maker opened Monday up with a trio of unwelcome news items that sent its shares lower in early morning trading. The stock was down by as much as 5% premarket and opened down more than 3%. The au...
Tesla stock falls as the Trump-Musk feud is heating up again
The billionaires are fighting on their respective social media platforms again, sending stock down 7% premarket . Tesla CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump rekindled their on-again, off-again on...
Tesla drops as Musk heads “exactly the opposite direction” from what investors want
Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives is not celebrating Elon Musk’s “ America Party ,” saying the move is a distraction from his job as CEO of , having recently returned to his work at the EV maker aft...
Lucid delivered 38% more vehicles in Q2, shares go into higher gear
Luxury EV maker is on the rise during Thursday’s shortened trading session. The company reported its second-quarter delivery and production numbers after the bell on Wednesday, and investors seem to ...
Tesla’s many individual investors are staying loyal to the stock
Through the stock’s ups and downs , retail investors have remained exceedingly loyal to , The Wall Street Journal writes , noting that the EV company has a higher portion of small individual investors...
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Tesla bulls are latching on to silver linings after the worst-ever drop in deliveries
There are a bunch of different ways to slice the delivery numbers that came out this morning . So far, traders are picking the optimistic ones. Yes, Tesla reported its biggest drop in deliveries ever,...
Rivian Q2 deliveries plunged 23% from last year
EV maker ticked down Wednesday after posting disappointing second-quarter production and delivery totals. Rivian, squeezed by tariff costs and stiffer competition because of rivals’ big incentives, d...
Tesla just reported its biggest quarterly drop in deliveries ever
delivered 384,122 vehicles in the second quarter, down about 60,000 from the same quarter a year earlier. That’s worse than analysts expected, Tesla’s biggest year-over-year quarterly decline ever, an...
The first half of the year is over and Tesla’s “more affordable models” are nowhere to be seen
It looks like long promised more affordable vehicles are late. June 30 marked the end of Tesla’s second quarter, by which point “new vehicles, including more affordable models” were supposed to have ...
GM and Ford climb on strong second-quarter sales ahead of expected tariff price hikes
The second quarter may have been filled with stock-shaking tariff announcements, but automakers have reaped the benefits of panic buying. and released Q2 sales figures on Tuesday, and both Detroit c...
Lucid and Rivian are trading lower as Senate Republicans work to appease tax bill holdouts
and are both down on Tuesday as investors watch Senate Republicans work feverishly to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday told reporters that Re...
CEO Elon Musk takes over Tesla’s US and European sales amid executive departure
Billionaires — they’re just like us. They beef with their former bosses and, sometimes, when colleagues leave they have to pick up the slack without backfilling the position. CEO Elon Musk is taking ...