BLOOMBERG Tesla Inc reintroduced a Model Y crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV) with rear wheel drive in the US, after reporting third quarter deliveries that fell short of Wall Street expectations. The starting price of the rear-wheel drive Model Y is now $43,990, according to Tesla’s website, and have a stated range of 242-260 miles. The electric vehicles likely use …

BLOOMBERG Tesla shipped 435,059 cars globally in the third quarter, as factory downtime led to its first quarterly delivery decline in more than a year. The results missed expectations. Several Wall Street analysts had slashed their delivery estimates in recent days, and the consensus compiled by Bloomberg fell to 456,722. Tesla delivered 466,140 cars in the second quarter. The electric-vehicle …

BLOOMBERG The European Union (EU) has formally launched an anti-subsidies probe into electric vehicles (EV) manufactured in China, setting in motion a one-year investigation that could see provisional measures such as countervailing duties imposed in the next nine months. The probe, which was announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in September, will focus on new battery-powered electric …