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Disgust at the CEO’s rightwing activism is casting a pall but conservatives are no more likely to buy EVs US liberals have become so disgusted with Tesla since Elon Musk’s rightward turn that they are now not only far less likely to purchase the car brand but also less willing to buy any type of electric car, new research has found. The popularity of Tesla among liberal-minded Americans has plummeted since Musk, Tesla’s chief executive and the world’s richest person, allied himself with Donald Trump and helped propel the president to election victory last year. Continue reading...

Electric carmaker struggles to emerge from sales rut on continent despite updating its bestselling Model Y Business live – latest updates Tesla sales in Europe have collapsed by one-third this year, data shows, after Elon Musk warned the electric carmaker faced “a few rough quarters” ahead. According to the figures published on Thursday by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), sales of Tesla vehicles in Europe slumped by 33% to 110,000 in the first half of 2025, compared with 165,000 in the first half of 2024. Continue reading...

Clips show robots serving popcorn and Tesla fans standing in line at California diner owned by world’s richest person In between Elon Musk ’s ill-fated role as a senior adviser to the president, running SpaceX and owning X , the world’s richest person has taken on a new venture, opening the “retro futuristic” Tesla Diner in Los Angeles . The business opened its doors in Hollywood at 4.20pm on Monday, offering a charging station, drive-in and a diner that serves, as Musk promised, “classic American fare like burgers and milkshakes” and wagyu beef chili, breakfast tacos and “iced nitro” matcha. Footage from the diner’s opening showed robots serving popcorn, burgers served in Cybertruck-shaped boxes and episodes of Star Trek playing on the restaurant’s large outdoor screens. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Customers are told the carmaker is allowing more time for testing and for demand to pick up Britain’s largest carmaker, Jaguar Land Rover, has delayed the planned launches of its new electric Range Rover and electric Jaguar models to give it time for more testing and for demand to pick up, the Guardian can reveal. JLR has written to customers waiting for the Range Rover Electric to inform them that deliveries of the new version of the model will not start until next year, after initially aiming for late 2025. Continue reading...

Grant offering up to 10% off may benefit some cheaper Chinese models but leave Tesla fans paying full price Buyers of new electric cars priced at less than £37,000 will be able to get a discount of up to 10% under a new UK government scheme, a move that may benefit some cheaper Chinese models but leave Tesla fans still having to pay the full price. The Department for Transport has reintroduced a grant, which had been scrapped in June 2022, to encourage more drivers to switch from petrol and diesel to electric vehicles. Continue reading...

Transport secretary promises to make buying electric cars ‘easier and cheaper’ as £700m subsidy package prepared The transport secretary has promised to make it “easier and cheaper” to buy electric cars, as the government announces £63m worth of funding to help build charging infrastructure. Heidi Alexander said on Sunday she wanted to make it more affordable to switch to electric vehicles as she announced new money for councils and other bodies to spend on facilities to charge cars. Continue reading...

Scheme aims to stop cables trailing across pavements and encourage drivers to switch to electric vehicles Local councils in England will be encouraged to install pavement gullies that link houses to the kerbside so that electric cars owners can charge their cars from home if they do not have a driveway. The new government scheme hopes to stop cables trailing across pavements, as EV owners in built up areas where off-street parking is scarce, try to charge their cars. The Department for Transport has said it will put £25m towards “cross-pavement” charging – essentially a narrow cable channel with a cover on top. Continue reading...