Fred Lambert

Tesla has been forced to reimburse a customer’s Full Self-Driving package after an arbitrator determined that the automaker failed to deliver it.

Elon Musk realized too late how badly Tesla would be hurt by Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, according to former and current Tesla executives who now give more details about the impact on the company.

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Trump’s Big Beautiful bill becoming law and going after EVs and solar, Tesla, Ford, and GM EV sales, Electrek Formula Sun, and more

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A new Tesla prototype was spotted again, reigniting speculation among Tesla shareholders, even though it’s likely just a Model Y, potentially a bit smaller, and the upcoming stripped-down, cheaper version.

Tesla has launched its new Oasis Supercharger, the long-promised EV charging station of the future, with a solar farm and off-grid batteries.

Xpeng has officially launched its new G7 electric SUV in China, entering the fiercely competitive electric crossover market with a starting price of just 195,800 yuan ($27,325 USD). The G7 is positioned squarely to compete with the Tesla Model Y and the newly unveiled Xiaomi YU7.

It is priced significantly more aggressively than the YU7, which shook up the industry just last week.

Tesla’s humanoid robot program, Optimus, is reportedly in disarray amid the departure of the senior vice president in charge, Milan Kovac.

Production has been delayed due to a new redesign, as the robot has yet to prove useful in Tesla’s factories.

Tesla has confirmed through its delivery report that Cybertruck sales have now dropped to ~5,000 units per quarter.

After planning for a production capacity of over 250,000 units per year, Tesla is currently selling the pickup truck at a rate of ~20,000 units annually.

What will happen to the vehicle program?

Tesla (TSLA) has released its Q2 2025 production and delivery results this morning, confirming it delivered 384,122 electric vehicles during the second quarter.

Tesla has unveiled its lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery cell factory in Nevada and claims that it is nearly ready to start production.

Elon Musk is reportedly taking over responsibilities for Tesla’s sales in North America and Europe amid a leadership transition.

The CEO is going from “sleeping on Tesla’s factory floor” to now sleeping in the sales offices.

Tesla (TSLA) is about to release its Q2 2025 delivery and production results. Here, we examine what Wall Street expects and what would make sense in reality.

Tesla’s stock (TSLA) crashed by as much as 5% in pre-market trading after President Trump threatened to set DOGE on Elon Musk, who has been criticizing his ‘Big Beautiful Bill’.

Elon Musk said just a few weeks ago that betting on Tesla delivering its promised Robotaxi in June is a “money-making opportunity,” and yet, those who listened to him just lost big.

A fan of Musk lost $50,000 betting on Tesla Robotaxi.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been talking about releasing his ‘Tesla Master Plan Part 4’ for over a year now. It has yet to come, and Tesla has yet to complete the goals in Parts 2 and 3. So I decided to come up with my own Tesla Master Plan.

Ford has long been rumored to be in discussions with Tesla about licensing its Full Self-Driving technology, but CEO Jim Farley has now shut down those rumors.

Farley confirmed that Ford talked with Tesla, but he believes Waymo has a better solution.

Republicans in the Senate have now updated Trump’s tax and budget bill to kill the $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles by the end of September.

Elon Musk claims Tesla has delivered its first car fully autonomously from the factory to a customer’s home “across town.”

If true, I’d argue that this is actually a bigger deal than its “Robotaxi” with supervisors, but there are still questions about the value of such a system.

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Xiaomi shocking the industry with YU7, Tesla’s Robotaxi launch and more.

Xiaomi has confirmed receiving over 200,000 real orders for its Tesla killer, the YU7, in just three minutes. We are referring to actual orders, with a soon-to-be non-refundable deposit.

Tesla has reportedly fired its head of operations for North America and Europe, a controversial employee who rose to the leadership position after serving as Elon Musk’s chief of staff.

I had the chance to test drive the Xiaomi YU7 ahead of its launch today in China, and I came out of the entire experience both impressed and frustrated.

Let me try to explain why, and also why Western automakers are scared of these new Chinese EVs.

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has set a goal for the YU7 to outsell the Tesla Model Y, the best-selling electric premium SUV, in China.

It could very well happen, considering Xiaomi’s SU7 is now outselling Tesla’s Model 3.

Tesla has requested that NHTSA withhold its response to the numerous questions the regulators had about its recent Robotaxi launch.

As for the agency, it said that it is aware of some disturbing videos in which we can see Tesla’s system making serious mistakes on its first day.