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Ford Slashed the Mach-E's Price Tag and Saw an Immediate Uptick in Sales

The Truth About Cars

Ford aims to address the problem with its internal skunkworks team’s project to develop a more affordable EV, but there’s no word on when the effort will deliver a new vehicle. Tesla may reach the destination first, but it faces significant manufacturing challenges to bring the price down to the promised $25,000 range.

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BYD Shatters Records: January 2024 Sales Surge 48% as Global Expansion Accelerates

My Electric Car

million EVs in 2023 and surpassed Tesla in EV sales during the final three months of that year​​. This international expansion is part of BYD’s strategy to increase its global footprint and compete more directly with Tesla and other EV manufacturers in various markets.

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Elon Musk’s jet tracker on Twitter has been shadowbanned, claims owner

Teslarati

Jack Sweeney, the person behind the controversial Twitter account “ @ElonJet ,” which tracks Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s private jet, has noted that his jet-tracking account has been shadowbanned. While Musk has taken issue with shadowbanning in the past, there is some history between the Tesla CEO and Sweeney.

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Elon Musk is reportedly looking to tie up less of his wealth in Twitter deal

Teslarati

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is reportedly speaking to large investment firms and other high net-worth individuals about contributing more money to his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter. billion in Tesla stock to fund the Twitter deal. Most of Musk’s incredible $245 billion net worth is tied up in his Tesla shares.

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Elon Musk as soon as laughed at this Chinese language carmaker. He isn’t giggling now

Baua Electric

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been vocal about his awe for the Chinese language electrical car producers. Additionally, Musk has made it deny undisclosed that he recognizes the paintings ethic in China, particularly next Tesla opened its Giga Shanghai manufacturing unit within the nation in past due 2019.

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Tesla Roadster does Dan

Plugs and Cars

The Tesla Roadster made sweet sweet love to Dan Neil one recent weekend. For comparison's sake we get a detailed and fascinating blow-by-blow of the labored, mechanical foreplay required for an internal combustion engine to thrust forward the Porche he left for dead. You can read the full piece in the LA Times here.

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Filming Tesla - 2

Revenge of the Electric Car

Our co-producer continues her account of shooting behind the scenes at Tesla. As we captured key meetings with department heads, Elon stressed his commitment to ramping Tesla up - and the fact that his role was hands-on. Elon voiced his displeasure with an internal issue that had been passed on to the press by an employee.

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