The Tesla Semi is building fleet interest in the heavy-duty freight sector, as the Elon Musk-led company announced last week that the first unit has rolled off the high-volume production line in Nevada.

Ford Motor Company’s April US vehicle sales remain below last year’s levels, while EV registrations fell for the seventh consecutive month — according to data released Monday.

EV startup Slate Auto has hired a manufacturing leader with nearly 15 years of experience across General Motors, Lucid Motors, and Ford Motor Company — as it prepares to begin production of its low-cost electric pickup at a former printing plant in Indiana later this year.

BYD topped Brazil's retail auto sales rankings in April, according to figures disclosed by the Shenzhen-headquartered company.

Chris Long, a veteran Tesla supply chain leader, has left the company after nearly a decade.

Lucid Motors continues to face weak demand across its European markets, with April registrations in the Netherlands and Norway showing no signs of improvement for the premium EV maker.

Nio Inc.'s US-listed shares plunged on Friday morning after the Shanghai-based EV maker reported global April delivery figures showing a sequential slowdown, with investors discounting the year-over-year improvement to focus on the 17.3% decline from March.

Guangzhou-based automaker XPeng said on Friday that it delivered 31,011 vehicles in April, a 7.5% decrease from the 35,045 units sold in the same month a year ago.

Xiaomi announced on Friday that it delivered "more than 30,000" vehicles in April, marking a sharp rebound from more than 20,000 units delivered in March.

Rivian disclosed its first-quarter earnings on Thursday, with the EV maker reaffirming full-year delivery guidance of 62,000 to 67,000 vehicles and signaling a sharp back-loading of volume into the second half as the R2 SUV begins ramping.

Rivian disclosed on Thursday that revenue from Amazon climbed to $468 million in the first quarter, accounting for roughly half of its total automotive revenue.

Uber has now committed more than $10 billion to buying thousands of autonomous vehicles and taking equity stakes in their developers.

China-made EVs have been appearing on California and Texas roads — legally — under a US customs provision that allows non-US residents to drive their own foreign-registered vehicles across the border for temporary personal use.

Tesla added five unsupervised Model Y vehicles to its Robotaxi fleet within a span of a few hours, bringing the total number of active vehicles across its three Texas cities to 25.

Tesla announced on Wednesday that the first Semi truck has rolled off its new high-volume production line, marking the transition from pilot builds to industrial-scale manufacturing at Gigafactory Nevada.

Rivian is preparing to add a second production shift for the R2 midsize SUV at its Normal, Illinois, plant, as revealed by a employee on Wednesday.

Geely is preparing to enter the Canadian market, with the Chinese automaker's premium Zeekr division posting six leadership roles in Toronto this week to launch the Geely namesake brand.

Italian Senator Carlo Calenda has filed a formal parliamentary question directed at the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, asking whether the government intends to prioritize the approval of Tesla's Full-Self Driving (Supervised) system in Italy.

For the first time since Nio Inc. began assembling its battery-swap alliance more than two years ago, founder and chief executive officer William Li has publicly downgraded the strategic importance of bringing other automakers into the network.

Aston Martin has received another £50 million ($67.5 million) cash injection from a group of investors led by major shareholder and chairman Lawrence Stroll, as losses amount for the fifth consecutive quarter.

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