[ Tesla dropped the prices of its vehicles globally on Friday as the largest electric vehicle manufacturer faces declining sales. The prices of the Model X, Model Y and Model S — three of its four best-selling vehicles — were each reduced by $2,000, days after the company recorded below-anticipated delivery figures for the first … Read more
[ A pair of Super Bowl ads went after Tesla’s self-driving technology on Sunday, asking viewers to boycott the company and claiming that its vehicles are unsafe. The Dawn Project’s ads follow a 2023 Super Bowl ad campaign, which featured an Autopilot-driven Tesla mowing down child-sized dummies in a parking lot. “Here’s what Elon Musk … Read more
[ A majority of autoworkers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., have signed union cards, United Auto Workers announced Tuesday. The milestone marks a major victory for the union’s efforts to expand to the South. The announcement comes less than two months after UAW began a member drive at the factory, riding momentum from … Read more
[ Ford CEO Jim Farley hopped on Elon Musk’s X today to make an announcement relevant to Elon Musk’s Tesla: Ford will be giving away adapters so that its electric vehicles can easily charge on Tesla’s charging network. “We want to make charging more convenient for our Ford EV owners,” Farley wrote. The announcement underscored … Read more
[ As of Wednesday morning, 30 percent of workers at the Mercedes-Benz facility outside Tuscaloosa, Ala., have voted to join the national union, according to a statement from UAW. It also comes on the heels of last fall’s 40-day strike by around 50,000 UAW workers, who conducted simultaneous walkouts against the “Big Three” automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — in the upper Midwest and won sizable pay increases. … Read more
[ Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt fired the starting gun on the 2024 general election campaign on Wednesday by announcing the date for what is expected to be a tax-cutting Budget. The Chancellor is likely to unveil pre-election giveaways in his set-piece event on 6 March, in a bid to win over voters whose finances … Read more
[ Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are plotting a spending trap for Labour by dictating the amount of money available for public services before the next election. The move would force Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to decide before the election how much they want to allocate to each department and where they would … Read more
