India’s electric bus push has a deadly blind spot

29 January 2026 at 03:00

India’s big cities are learning that electric buses need trained drivers to handle them. Public electric buses in Bengaluru caused 18 accidents, six of them fatal, over 15 months ending...

Why the EU is ready to drop high tariffs on China-made EVs

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

15 January 2026 at 04:46

The European Union has found a way to keep electric-vehicle makers happy without flooding the market with cheap Chinese cars. The European Commission, on January 12, issued a guidance document...

BYD burns profit chasing global dominance over Tesla

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By: Kinling Lo and Ananya Bhattacharya

13 January 2026 at 00:11

Winning the global electric-vehicle race is costing BYD dearly. The Chinese EV giant reported a 33% drop in profit for the period from July to September, marking its second consecutive...

Why Venezuela’s political shock had MercadoLibre’s stock rallying

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

7 January 2026 at 03:49

Donald Trump’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has unexpectedly boosted a Latin American e-commerce company’s stock. Shares of MercadoLibre have gained over 10% on Nasdaq between January 3 and...

TOPSHOT - A supporter of ousted Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro carry his portrait during a rally outside the National Assembly in Caracas on January 5, 2026. Venezuela's parliament swore in Delcy Rodriguez as interim president on January 5, two days after US forces seized her predecessor Nicolas Maduro to face trial in New York. Members of the new National Assembly offered their full backing to Rodriguez -- who had been Maduro's vice president -- and reelected her brother Jorge Rodriguez as parliament head. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP via Getty Images)

India gives Musk 72 hours as X floods with obscene images generated using Grok

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

5 January 2026 at 05:29

Elon Musk’s Grok is under fire in India after its viral “bikini” trend. On January 2, India’s IT ministry issued a 72-hour ultimatum to X over its artificial intelligence chatbot...

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 13: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY - MANDATORY CREDIT - 'INDIAN PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU / HANDOUT' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Head of the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.) and CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and X Elon Musk meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) at Blair House in Washington DC, USA on February 13, 2025. (Photo by Press Information Bureau / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

China starts a food fight over Western EV tariffs

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

18 November 2025 at 06:00

China is fighting import tariffs on its electric vehicles by making Western farmers pay the price. Beijing has levied billions of dollars of agricultural sanctions against the U.S., the European...

XINGHUA, CHINA - FEBRUARY 23: Aerial view of farmers harvesting scallions in a field on February 23, 2022 in Xinghua, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Tang Dehong/VCG via Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar paycheck depends on the markets he’s losing

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

13 November 2025 at 06:00

Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar paycheck hinges on Tesla conquering markets where Chinese rivals are pulling ahead. On November 7, Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion pay package for the founder-CEO, provided...

China’s $143 billion push to dominate the global EV industry

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

29 October 2025 at 05:00

Chinese electric-vehicle companies have invested big bucks over the past decade to establish their global supremacy. Companies such as CATL and BYD, among others, poured $143 billion into foreign EV...

Do India’s EV policies discriminate against China? Experts weigh in

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

24 October 2025 at 05:00

China is questioning India’s electric vehicle subsidies on the global stage. The world’s largest EV producer, China has requested the World Trade Organization to settle a dispute with India over incentive...

Vehicles for Vinfast roll off an assembly line at a factory in Thoothukudi, India.

EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

17 October 2025 at 05:00

The resale value of electric vehicles is collapsing worldwide, hurting private owners and fleet operators. The crisis became especially apparent when BluSmart, India’s pioneering all-electric ride-hailing service, collapsed in April...

Tesla starts slashing prices amid costly battle with BYD

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

9 October 2025 at 04:00

Tesla has cut prices on its bestselling models to compete with Chinese rivals that have been giving it a run for its money. On October 7, the company reduced the...

A worker cleans a Tesla Model Y electric vehicle at the newly opened Tesla Inc. store at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Tesla opened its first India showroom, showcasing Model Y cars priced at nearly $70,000, as Elon Musk's electric-vehicle maker looks to tap new markets and offset slowing sales where it's already well established. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China charges ahead as South Korea’s battery giants lose their spark

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

30 September 2025 at 05:00

China’s battery giants have pulled the plug on South Korea’s dominance in powering electric vehicles. South Korea’s three top EV battery makers — LG Energy Solution, SK On, and Samsung...

China won the electric car race. Up next: freight trucks

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

26 September 2025 at 05:00

China flooded the world with electric cars. Its next target is freight trucks. BYD, the Chinese automaker that overtook Tesla in sales of electric cars last year, now ships electric...

EV jobs are starting to slip away

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

4 September 2025 at 05:00

The electric vehicle industry is cutting staff faster than smoke. More than 30,000 workers have lost their positions at electric-vehicle makers and related industries worldwide over the past year, according...

Employees work on a Trumpchi brand vehicle production line at the Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. Ltd. (GAC) plant. Trumpchi, the Chinese auto brand established in 2010 and now preparing for U.S. sales, has become a topic of debate as owner GAC considers whether American consumers would love or hate the marque with a name similar to that of the controversial former U.S. president.

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Chinese EV makers are cashing in on Western luxury knockoffs

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya and Kinling Lo

28 August 2025 at 05:00

Chinese automakers are imitating not to flatter but to profit. Companies such as Chery, Xiaomi, and Zeekr appear to be drawing heavily from premium Western car designs, banking on familiar...

VinFast speeds into India after U.S. U-turn

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

4 August 2025 at 02:40

VinFast is building factories faster than it can sell cars. The Vietnamese electric-vehicle maker opened its first Indian factory on August 4, betting on expansion even as its existing plant...

Mr. Pham Sanh Chau, CEO of VinFast Asia and Mr. Ashwin Ashok Patil, Deputy CEO of Sales & Marketing at VinFast India at the at the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025 where Vinfast announced its first electric vehicles for the Indian market.

BYD distracted the world while Chinese EV peers staged a coup

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

22 July 2025 at 05:00

Everyone watched BYD overtake Tesla, and missed the quiet march of a pack of other Chinese automakers. Six of the world’s top 10 electric-vehicle sellers last year were Chinese. From...

A Geely electric vehicle at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2024.

Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

17 July 2025 at 05:00

The biggest ride-hailing companies globally are struggling to keep their electric vehicle promises. In 2020, Uber, the world’s largest ride-hailing company, set a target for all its rides and deliveries...

Tesla finally enters India after a decade of false starts

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

16 July 2025 at 05:00

Tesla finally arrived in India — fashionably late to its own party. After almost a decade of broken promises and dashed hopes, Tesla opened its first showroom in Mumbai on...

Tesla opened its first India showroom at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai on Tuesday, July 15, 2025.

Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

7 July 2025 at 05:00

Meta’s fintech ambitions have failed to take off in India — the company’s largest market, with over 500 million WhatsApp users. When WhatsApp first began testing payments in India back...

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