European carmakers are urging Brussels to ease regulations to help them avoid buying carbon credits from rivals at increasingly high prices.

Motorists have been told to boycott Tesla by the Polish sports minister in response to CEO Elon Musk's comments at a far-right German political rally that Germans should move beyond their "past guilt" over Nazi atrocities.

In the early 2000s, the complaints were similar...We missed that underneath the surface many things were changing,” says Jens Ulbrich, chief economist at the Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank. Back then,

There is no justification for any reasonable Pole to continue purchasing Teslas,” says minister Sławomir Nitras.

Mr Tusk denounced the words as "all too familiar and ominous", and his tourism minister, Sławomir Nitras, has gone even further and called for Polish citizens - around 6 million of whom died in the Holocaust - to launch a boycott of Tesla vehicles in response.

The display, created by activist groups Led By Donkeys and the Centre for Political Beauty, has drawn public attention and is under investigation by local police.

Poland's sports minister has said that the recent statements made by Elon Musk, the founder of US car manufacturer Tesla, should face strong condemnation and even a boycott of his company by all Poles due to his recent call on Germans to leave behind their Nazi past.

Some experts have suggested that Germany may have too many electric car chargers as the Government looks to push more drivers towards zero emission vehicles. Till Gnann, coordinator for electromobility at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe,

The sector, hit by factory closures and job cuts, including 54,000 job losses among auto suppliers last year, also needs to confront economic threats such as U.S. trade tariffs and a reliance on China for critical minerals and batteries.

Tesla reported lower than expected profits yesterday but confirmed key 2025 benchmarks, saying it will return to sales volume growth and move forward

Tesla announced its new implementation of self-driving in a video on Twitter. Apparently cars leaving the assembly line drive around 1.2 miles from the exit out to loading dock lanes. The route follows private roads around the facility,