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APRIL 5, 2024

Good morning! It’s Friday, April 5, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MARCH 5, 2024

It wasn’t too long ago that some people seriously believed that legacy automakers ’ time was limited and that it was only a matter of time before Tesla and its electric cars would drive them out of business. It was a laughable idea on its face, but that didn’t stop people from repeating it. And yet, somehow, against… Read more.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The future of personal transportation, cars and trucks and bikes and scooters , is electric. We know this now, and we’ve known it for some time, but automakers, despite all that knowledge, have dragged their feet on actually producing electric cars. Read more.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Out of all the legacy automakers, Volvo is one of the most steadfast and fastest working when it comes to the transition to electric cars. Volvo already has a growing lineup of electric cars that are either on sale now… Read more.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Despite some of the things you may read online, demand for electric cars both in the U.S. More than one million EVs were sold here in 2023 , and the price premium versus gas cars is lessening. and globally is at an all-time high, and sales are increasing exponentially. While many new EVs are big hulking trucks and… Read more.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Electric cars are expensive to buy , but that doesn’t stop automakers from losing thousands on each one they sell. And while most startups find themselves scrounging for cash to cover their losses and stay afloat, Nio instead turns to the Chinese government. Read more.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Chinese start-up SSC says it will be unveiling a brand-new customer-ready electric sports car for deliveries later this year. It’s called the SC-01, and if everything the company is saying about the car is true, it could be the most exciting driver-focused electric car since the original Tesla Roadster.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Automakers like Ford are losing big on each vehicle sold, with losses totaling in the billions — and now, The Verge reports that Ford is starting to wonder if maybe it should… Read more. The EV revolution has hit a stumbling block. Sure, sales are technically rising , but they’re not rising anywhere near as quickly as projected.

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MAY 1, 2024

When you were a kid and you had a little radio control car that you zoomed around the kitchen floor or built jumps for in the back yard, did you throw it away when the batteries died ? For many owners of early electric vehicles from a decade or more ago, that seems to be the answer to electrical issues.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Electric vehicles are seeing huge discounts right now , but those new lower prices are still not enough to get folks to, y’know, buy them. Now, an ever-more-bloated EV inventory is pushing automakers and dealers to slash prices even further. Five-figure price discounts are no longer out of the question. Read more.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

The transition to electric vehicles is supposed to be a matter of when not if. Manufacturers have had supply issues building electric vehicles as well as trouble actually selling the ones they have… Read more.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna says the automaker’s future electric vehicle will not be quiet like other EVs. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Italians are traditionally not quiet people. Growing up in New Jersey and living amongst them means I have first-hand knowledge of this fact. Vigna intends to carry… Read more.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tesla dramatically dropping the retail prices of its electric vehicles has perhaps been a boon for some of its customers, but the fleet buyers have found the move a bit unnerving. Following the news that Hertz would slow its purchases from Tesla, German competitor Sixt is going a step further , discontinuing purchases… Read more.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Lucid is dropping the price on its flagship and sole vehicle (for now), the Air sedan , because demand just isn’t where the nascent automaker needs it to be. Three trims of the Air — the Pure, Touring and Grand Touring — will all see varying degrees of price cuts. Read more.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Tesla is taking a buzzsaw to the price of its best-selling Model Y electric crossover in an attempt to clear out its biggest-ever inventory stockpile. The Austin, Texas-based automaker is dropping prices after it produced 46,561 more vehicles than it delivered in the first quarter of 2024. That means it has more cars… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As it turns out, car dealers seem to know even less than buyers do when it comes to electric vehicles , and they don’t really seem too keen on learning about them.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative organization funded at least in part by Chevron and ExxonMobil, recently published a paper condemning the production and purchase of electric vehicles on the basis that they’re socialist nightmare garbage or whatever. The paper asserts that the true cost of electric… Read more.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Norway has been the poster child for the electric vehicle transition. EVs have outpaced gasoline-fueled cars in sales for the past few years , encouraged by generous subsidies and an expansive charging network. However, the country is beginning to realize the combustion versus electric struggle doesn’t exist in a… Read more.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

While Mercedes backtracks on its future electric vehicle plans and Ford cuts production of its battery-powered F-150 Lightning , British automotive upstart Ineos has entered the murky waters of electrification with an EV of its own, the Fusilier. But at its launch, company boss Jim Ratcliffe made no excuses for the… Read more.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Just over 10 percent of Canadian new car buyers this year chose to buy a battery electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. million new cars, trucks, and SUVs… Read more. According to CTV , the exact number is 10.3

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

When Tesla first launched the Model S in 2012 the expensive electric pseudo-luxury sedan was sharing the American EV market with neighborhood vehicles and the Nissan Leaf. For much of the last decade, Tesla had a serious head start over other EV makers, though has rested on its laurels recently and allowed that head… Read more.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Tesla is one of the first to release Q4 2023 numbers , announcing that in 2023 it produced 1,845,985 vehicles and delivered 1,808,581 — a new… Read more. The first weeks of January are always full of number crunching, as automakers start putting out their sales results for the fourth quarter and the previous year as a whole.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sales of new electric vehicles fell sharply in September compared to the same period last year in the United Kingdom , according to the BBC. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reportedly said sales to private buyers fell by 14 percent since last year. However, because of fleet sales, overall registrations… Read more.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Tesla has once again cut prices of its Model 3 sedan and Model Y crossover amid the electric vehicle price war we’re currently in the midst of. The move comes just days after third-quarter deliveries for the Austin, Texas-based automaker missed the goals they were expecting to hit. Read more.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

The numbers are in, and during the third quarter of 2023, Tesla shipped 435,059 vehicles. That’s a good bit less than the 466,140 cars it shipped in the second quarter, but it doesn’t come as a complete surprise. Analysts were already expecting fewer deliveries last quarter, but they didn’t expect such a significant… Read more.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

As manufacturers transition to electric vehicles, those workers need to know they won’t be left out in the cold, and those assurances are still forthcoming. The United Auto Workers strike has — tentatively — ended. The workers, though, still face uncertainty in the face of a shifting automotive market. Read more.

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MAY 16, 2024

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 16, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MAY 14, 2024

2024 has been a very bad year for Tesla so far. We’ve all read about the layoffs , the poor sales , and the deeply weird earnings call , but a closer look reveals even more behind the scenes. It’s about who is being laid off, why sales are down, and whether what Musk said on that call might be signaling his exit from… Read more.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, April 17, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MAY 2, 2024

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 2, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MAY 2, 2024

Tesla’s latest round of layoffs have left both the auto industry and company stock holders shook. Falling sales have forced the automaker to cut 10 percent of its total staff. Its left broadsided workers confused as they try to make heads or tails of severance packages that look to be pretty crappy. One part of Tesla… Read more.

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MAY 10, 2024

Whether you have a problem buying a Chinese EV or not , that still doesn’t change the fact that China is investing heavily in its electric future, or the fact that the build quality and engineering gaps continue to close between Chinese and legacy Western automakers — with some Chinese automakers even surpassing the… Read more.

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MAY 1, 2024

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, May 1, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MAY 3, 2024

Good morning! It’s Friday, May 3, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MAY 17, 2024

Good morning! It’s Friday, May 17, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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MAY 9, 2024

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 9, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Sure, the electric segment hasn’t exploded here like it has in other countries , but just under 1.2 percent of all new cars sold in this… Read more. There has been a lot of doom and gloom about EV adoption slowing down in the U.S. market lately. million new EVs were sold in 2023 , and that’s nothing to sneeze at. A record 7.6

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