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Tesla's stripped down Cybertruck has cloth seats, rear-wheel drive, coil suspension and loses the distinct light bar and tonneau cover at the rear.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk hit at trade adviser Peter Navarro as Tesla board member Kimbal Musk said Trump's tariffs are a tax on U.S. consumers.

Lucid boosted its factory incentives in the most recent quarter to an average of $12,877 per vehicle from $10,266 in the year-earlier period, Motor Intelligence said.

Mexico is hoping to negotiate lower U.S. automotive tariffs by leveraging its relationship with the Trump administration. Analysts are skeptical.

Tesla said it lost several weeks of production as it switched over its four global factories over to a freshened version of the Model Y crossover.

The automaker said it produced 14,611 vehicles in the first quarter, which was 4.5 percent higher than the 13,980 vehicles in the year-earlier quarter.

Tesla needs fresh models to stem its sales decline in the U.S., Cox Automotive says. But CEO Elon Musk insists that autonomous vehicles are the future.

Tesla could use its higher level of U.S. content to limit price increases relative to legacy automakers, boosting demand.

Musk's work as head of the Department of Government Efficiency has alienated some U.S. EV buyers. Tesla sales are also falling in Europe and China.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has received praise at home and abroad for her nonconfrontational approach to the U.S. tariff threat.