Average Age of Vehicles Sets Record, New-Vehicle Sales Drop to Where They Were 20 Years Ago. What Are Automakers Doing? by Wolf Richter • Jun 27, 2019 • 109 Comments Part of Carmageddon, But Consumers Demand It
Used-Car Wholesale Prices Surge, Retail Volume Drops. New Cars Sink Deeper into Carmageddon by Wolf Richter • Jun 8, 2019 • 90 Comments Six charts on the used-vehicle market, plus my “Chart of Carmageddon” for new vehicles.
How a Low Share Price Would be Fatal for Tesla, and Why Musk Has to Pump It Up, Come Hell or High Water by Wolf Richter • May 28, 2019 • 69 Comments This is a cleaned-up transcript of my podcast on Sunday.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT by Wolf Richter • May 26, 2019 • 94 Comments How a Low Share Price Would be Fatal for Tesla, and why Musk has to pump it up, come hell or high water.
Jaguar Land Rover Books its Biggest-Ever Annual Loss. Sales Collapse in China by Don Quijones • May 21, 2019 • 22 Comments China deliveries in its fiscal year: -34%. And not getting better: in April, -45%.
Carmageddon Sinks Tesla’s Bonds by Wolf Richter • May 20, 2019 • 96 Comments Tesla is steeped in chaos — and chaos is absolutely the opposite what a complex manufacturing, distribution, and retail operation needs.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT by Wolf Richter • May 19, 2019 • 50 Comments What the Subprime Auto-Loan Fiasco Means.
Subprime Bites: Auto-Loan Delinquencies Spike to Q3 2009 Level, Despite Strongest Labor Market in Years by Wolf Richter • May 15, 2019 • 80 Comments But what will happen to banks and automakers when the cycle turns?
Tesla Discloses Record Pollution Credits for Q1: Without Them, it Would Have Lost $918 Million and Bled $1.14 Billion in Cash by Wolf Richter • Apr 29, 2019 • 71 Comments The surprise in the SEC 10-Q filing when no one was supposed to pay attention.
Tesla Reports Another Doozie by Wolf Richter • Apr 24, 2019 • 76 Comments The ruse that helped shares jump 20%.