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Randall McAdory

Former automotive and digital media executive analyzing global automotive disruption.

Automotive History

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The Bankruptcy VW Can't File

Jul 13, 2026

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6 min read

The Bankruptcy VW Can't File

GM needed a court to do what its board wouldn't. VW's July 9 supervisory board vote clarified that a reckoning is still ahead.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Jeff Bezos

+5

Is a Cheaper Car the Same as an Affordable One?

Jul 6, 2026

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3 min read

Is a Cheaper Car the Same as an Affordable One?

The $24,950 pickup isn't solving affordability. It's revealing where Detroit's real opportunity sits.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Lucid Motors

+4

The Protection That Isn't a Wall

Jun 30, 2026

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4 min read

The Protection That Isn't a Wall

What Lucid's Latest Cuts Reveal About the Limits of Sovereign Capital

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

AI Infrastructure

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The Auto Sector: A Hundred Years Before the AI Buildout

Jun 25, 2026

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5 min read

The Auto Sector: A Hundred Years Before the AI Buildout

What the Automobile's Industrial Revolution Predicts for Today's AI Infrastructure Race

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Battery Supply Chain

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40.1% - The Layer the Stack Race Has Already Lost

Jun 15, 2026

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3 min read

40.1% - The Layer the Stack Race Has Already Lost

One company supplies 40% of the world's EV vehicle batteries. The more important question is whether that is still a supplier relationship.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Elon Musk

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First Principles or First Preferences? What the Automotive Disruption Actually Reveals

Jun 8, 2026

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5 min read

First Principles or First Preferences? What the Automotive Disruption Actually Reveals

The same methodologies built Tesla's battery pack and produced the Cybertruck. That success gap is worth understanding.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Waymo

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The Bet Inside the Bet:What Tesla's Valuation Requires You to Believe

Jun 1, 2026

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10 min read

The Bet Inside the Bet:What Tesla's Valuation Requires You to Believe

Tesla may solve autonomous driving. That question is still open. But solving the technology and winning the market are two separate bets. Investors are pricing them as one.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Lucid Motors

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Lucid: When Sovereign Patience Has a Timeline

May 25, 2026

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3 min read

Lucid: When Sovereign Patience Has a Timeline

Capital insulation was the thesis. Fiscal discipline may be the reality.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Toyota

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Honda, Subaru, and the Questions Their Recovery Plans Don't Answer

May 18, 2026

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5 min read

Honda, Subaru, and the Questions Their Recovery Plans Don't Answer

The losses look similar. The recoveries are not.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

BYD

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Why Ford's EV Cost Strategy Leaves the Biggest Problem Unsolved

May 11, 2026

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3 min read

Why Ford's EV Cost Strategy Leaves the Biggest Problem Unsolved

The skunkworks is engineering around the edges while ignoring batteries, the single most expensive component.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Volkswagen

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GM Funds Transition. VW Warns of Crisis. What's the Difference?

May 4, 2026

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11 min read

GM Funds Transition. VW Warns of Crisis. What's the Difference?

Cost Structure, Not Technology, Determines Which Legacy OEMs Survive Disruptive Transitions

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Waymo

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Tesla Won EVs With Demonstrated Advantages and an Empty Market. The Robotaxi Market Is Already Occupied.

Apr 27, 2026

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6 min read

Tesla Won EVs With Demonstrated Advantages and an Empty Market. The Robotaxi Market Is Already Occupied.

Vertical integration meets an occupied landscape with established operators already scaling.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Leapmotor

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The Platform Belongs to Leapmotor. The Brand Belongs to Stellantis. Where Does the Margin Go?

Apr 20, 2026

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5 min read

The Platform Belongs to Leapmotor. The Brand Belongs to Stellantis. Where Does the Margin Go?

Stellantis needs Leapmotor's platform. Leapmotor needs Stellantis's European network. Which dependency compounds faster determines who controls the economics.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Waymo

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The Landlord Who Can’t Afford a Winner

Apr 17, 2026

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5 min read

The Landlord Who Can’t Afford a Winner

Uber has signed a number of AV partnerships. The strategy only works if none of them dominate.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Toyota

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Optionality or Hesitation:The Toyota Question

Apr 6, 2026

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8 min read

Optionality or Hesitation:The Toyota Question

The largest automaker in the world is playing every hand. That is either the shrewdest strategy in the industry or a most expensive hedge.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Elon Musk

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The Engineer, the Dealmaker, and the Visionary

Mar 30, 2026

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9 min read

The Engineer, the Dealmaker, and the Visionary

Three founders are building the future of transportation. They share a destination. The paths they chose could not be more different.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

GM

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GM Built It First. Tesla Gets the Credit.

Mar 23, 2026

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9 min read

GM Built It First. Tesla Gets the Credit.

What the robotaxi retreat tells us about the Innovator's Dilemma in practice.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

GM

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The Third Bay: A GM, Tesla, BYD Story

Mar 16, 2026

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8 min read

The Third Bay: A GM, Tesla, BYD Story

GM conceived it. Tesla commercialized it. BYD industrialized it to its endpoint.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Auto industry strategy

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The Global Affordability War: EVs, ICE, and the Architecture That Wins at Scale

Mar 9, 2026

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7 min read

The Global Affordability War: EVs, ICE, and the Architecture That Wins at Scale

Rising vehicle prices, global growth markets, and declining battery costs may determine whether EVs become the dominant industrial architecture for automobiles.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Lucid Motors

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Lucid: Capital Insulated, Scale Exposed

Mar 2, 2026

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5 min read

Lucid: Capital Insulated, Scale Exposed

How sovereign backing changes survival — but not automotive economics

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Stack Economics

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The Fight for the Top of the Stack

Feb 25, 2026

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10 min read

The Fight for the Top of the Stack

Why Automakers Don't Want to Be "Just" Car Companies

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Ford Motor Company

The Cost of Transparency at Ford

Feb 19, 2026

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6 min read

The Cost of Transparency at Ford

Why isolating EV losses may be amplifying skepticism rather than enforcing discipline.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory

Tesla

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Who’s Ready vs. Who’s Right?

Jan 27, 2026

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5 min read

Who’s Ready vs. Who’s Right?

Why the EV transition is no longer a debate about beliefs—and what it’s revealing about Tesla, Toyota, and the next phase of disruption.

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory
Tesla’s Hope Premium—and Why the Bet Looks Different Now

Jan 11, 2026

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7 min read

Tesla’s Hope Premium—and Why the Bet Looks Different Now

How Tesla moved from EV execution to a much bigger—and riskier—set of bets

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory
Killing a Cash Cow vs. Making It Obsolete

Jan 5, 2026

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5 min read

Killing a Cash Cow vs. Making It Obsolete

Why refusing to kill a cash cow may be the most disciplined decision of the EV era

Randall McAdory
Randall McAdory
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