You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK or AU homepage at any time using this menu. Terrifying moment California college student narrowly escapes stalker who chases her home and vaults over gate in race to her front door... but police let him walk for infuriating reason Devastating untold story of Presley Gerber's final days: Extremely thin, jittering'like he was on meth' and so out his mind that his voice changed... mom Cindy Crawford tried one last panicked intervention - as reality slipped away Many missed the subtle signs in Prince William and Kate's'united front' that show us what's going on behind the scenes for the royal couple. But I've been studying them for years. Seemingly innocuous rental home in red hot California hotspot hits the market for $6,300... but it's hiding a dark secret that's left a family furious Pet rescue showcased its'incredible' work in adorable photos of cute cats... but owners were hiding a terrifying dark secret Dark new details of infertile influencer Clavicular's alleged Cape Cod rape: Read the damning claims about booze-fueled night at GRANDMA's coastal mansion with underage girl... and his mom's shock reaction Florida teacher under fire as she's accused of trying to'cancel' an 8th grader over anti-woke views Creator of AOC's infamous Tax the Rich dress owes more than $1million for A-list gala featuring Meghan Markle Trump visibly WINCES at roaring military flyover during stone-faced Xi's red carpet welcome - the same treatment he once mocked Obama for Dolly Parton's sister speaks out on family'feud' amid shock clash over late star's estate Wendy's manager, 19, accused of tying neurodivergent worker to GRILL'after saying she was too busy to babysit him' I spent my life being ashamed of my elderly father and the alarming age gap between him and my mother. Presley Gerber was discovered dead'in a bedroom' at luxurious rehab facility after going into cardiac arrest Inside soccer legend Thierry Henry's astonishing $25M NYC penthouse... including the grill to end all grills Top lawyer moved on from wife with glamorous younger bad girl who LOVES to gush over him on Instagram... until rock throwing and strangulation incident erupted during walk with baby near $2.2m mansion Electric car charging just got even faster: Chinese carmaker's EV battery charges in under five minutes - smashing the previous record by 30 seconds Electric car charging just got even faster - as a Chinese carmaker has unveiled a battery that charges in under five minutes.

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The world's carmakers are struggling to compete with China Global carmakers are facing a reckoning as US, European and Japanese brands lose ground to Chinese rivals setting the pace not only in electric vehicles, but also in batteries, design and software. The BBC visited factory floors in Beijing and Hefei on the sidelines of Auto China 2026 - the world's largest car show - and found striking levels of automation and software development speed, leaving foreign brands that once dominated the Chinese market struggling to keep up. We have no chance against this, Honda chief executive Toshihiro Mibe told Japanese media after visiting a highly automated factory in Shanghai. Ford chief executive Jim Farley has also warned that Western carmakers, are in a fight for our lives as Chinese rivals expand globally. After decades spent investing in joint ventures with Chinese partners to build vehicles, foreign carmakers are now changing the nature of those partnerships to stay competitive.

In 1916, hybrid cars could've changed history. But Ford wouldn't allow it. Henry Ford's monopoly on the automobile industry meant that hybrids wouldn't see the light of day for decades. In 1916, Clinton Edgar Woods, a forgotten automobile inventor, designed the first commercial hybrid cars. But Ford's Model T had already cornered the market.

The Model S deserved better than this. Before Elon Musk, most electric vehicles seemed less like an alternative to gasoline than an argument in its favor. The sad state of affairs for EVs for many years was that they were slow, impractical, and largely enticing only if you lived with copious guilt over your carbon emissions. Then Tesla came out with the Tesla Model S. The speedy, high-tech sedan didn't just leave other EVs in the dust; it could compete with the likes of BMW and Mercedes-Benz. "EVs went from'eating your vegetables' to getting you super-car performance in a vehicle that's luxurious and quiet," Jake Fisher, the senior director of auto testing at Consumer Reports, told me.

Countries have fallen behind on emissions goals, but Hannah Ritchie looks at the numbers and sees real gains. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. It has been 10 years since countries signed on to the Paris Agreement, and emissions and temperatures continue to reach new highs, fueling unprecedented weather disasters around the globe. Meanwhile, the shift to clean energy is facing powerful headwinds in the United States, where climate policies are being reversed and support for clean energy is withdrawn. Yet, while the headlines paint a dismal picture of efforts to rein in climate change, the numbers often tell a different story. That is the assessment of data scientist Hannah Ritchie, a researcher at the University of Oxford and deputy editor of the publication .

Elon Musk still makes some of America's best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world's best-selling car, many companies make great EVs now. Some of them have the Model Y beat in certain areas, but for the price, the Tesla is still the total package. Now, imagine how good Teslas could be if Musk apparently wasn't so bored with making them.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Last year, Ford CEO Jim Farley commuted in a car that wasn't made by his own company. In an effort to scope out the competition, Farley spent six months driving around in a Xiaomi SU7. The Chinese-made electric sedan is one of the world's most impressive cars: It can accelerate faster than many Porsches, has a giant touch screen that lets you turn off the lights at your house, and comes with a built-in AI assistant--all for roughly 30,000 in China. "It's fantastic," Farley said about the Xiaomi SU7 on a podcast last fall.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Before DOGE, there was Twitter. In 2023, Elon Musk seemed too distracted by his latest venture to run the world's most valuable car company. Tesla was faltering as he focused on remaking (and renaming) the social-media network. So at Tesla's investor-day event in Austin that March, Musk responded with a rare show of force.

Tesla brought in 20 percent less automotive revenue at the end of last year compared to the year previous, the company reported today, as demand for its electric cars appear to have dipped precipitously across the globe. The drop exceeded even some pessimistic Wall Street analysts' predictions. By late afternoon, before CEO Elon Musk and other company leaders appeared for a quarterly update call for investors, stock prices appeared relatively stable on the news. Overall, however, the electric automaker's stock price is down more than 40 percent from its late 2024 high. In a slide deck prepared for investors, Tesla pinned the drop on declines in deliveries, some which it said were related to the need to retool some of its production lines for modified versions of its best-selling electric cars.