A Hong Kong court has convicted a beautician of doxxing and blackmail after she uploaded intimate photos and the personal details of a married finance director she had briefly dated, demanding he pay her HK$2.6 million (US$331,830) or she would expose the affair. Deputy District Judge Ivy Chui Yee-mei on Monday found Li Yanlin guilty…
Skoda will stop selling cars in China by the middle of the year. It sold only 15,000 cars in 2025. China was Skoda’s largest market for many years. Škoda’s spectacular downfall in China needs to be studied. For many years, it was the company’s largest market, but sales began to slip toward the end of…
Photo Courtesy: Autorepublika. In an auto industry that spent years charging toward full electrification, Porsche is now making a sharp turn back, and it is doing so out of necessity rather than choice. After one of the most difficult financial years in its modern history, the company is returning to the fundamentals that long sustained…
Porsche’s $5 Billion Profit Collapse: Inside the Strategic Crisis That Just Rocked One of the Auto Industry’s Most Powerful Brands For decades Porsche has been one of the most profitable car companies on the planet. That reputation just took a staggering hit. The German performance icon reported operating profit of just €90 million for 2025…
Batteries in electric vehicles that regularly use 100-plus-kilowatts fast chargers degrade faster than those that rely primarily on slow charging, a new study suggests. Using fast chargers more frequently can cause some packs to lose nearly a quarter of their capacity in eight years, it claims. We’ve seen other studies suggest that fast charging has…
An elderly man has been rushed to hospital in Hong Kong after being struck by a HK$2.3 million (US$295,900) Porsche sports car. Police said on Saturday they received a report at about 2.23pm of a private vehicle near the junction of Tai Kiu Road and Yuen Long On Lok Road that had apparently lost control…
The Ford F-150 Lightning is canceled, as is its fully electric replacement, codenamed “T3.” Meanwhile, China’s EV and PHEV options keep making inroads in cheap segments across the globe. Ford’s Universal EV Platform is still on track to launch in 2027. The F-150 Lightning will gain a gas engine. An American-made commercial electric van has…
Introduction This is the latest Porsche 911 Turbo S, the facelift if you will of the 992-generation (992.2 in Porsche-speak) Turbo. But with it has come such a raft of mechanical changes that it might as well be a new generation car, and just about the most complete all-round supercar there has perhaps ever been,…
Porsche slows EV rollout, trims 2025 profit forecast amid weak demand, China pressures and US tariffs. Porsche AG on Friday dialled back plans for its electric vehicle rollout due to weaker demand, pressure in key market China and higher U.S. tariffs, causing the luxury sportscar maker and its parent Volkswagen to slash their 2025 profit…
MUNICH (Reuters) -U.S. tariffs have cost Volkswagen, Europe’s largest carmaker, billions of euros so far, its chief executive said on Monday, adding that its key brand Porsche was being squeezed in a “sandwich” of duties and a weak Chinese market. “Up to now, it’s several billion euros on our balance sheet that this situation costs…