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🚨 Polestar to manufacture in Europe, navigating geopolitical trade headwinds
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Polestar to manufacture in Europe, navigating geopolitical trade headwinds
Polestar announced local production in Europe with the Polestar 7 navigating Chinese anti-subsidy tariffs and 10% import tariffs currently in place and would also allow a route to the US replicating Volvo Cars' plans to export the EX30 from Belgium to the US. • Polestar 7, a premium compact SUV • Without knowing more, one would suggest it would be made at Volvo Cars Ghent facility on the same SEA Geely platform as the EX30, which begins Belgian production later this year. The company said th
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January 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
🚨 Polestar to manufacture in Europe, navigating geopolitical trade headwinds
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Nice to get a few words in edgeways, in this interesting story.
VW braces for another difficult year with no new EVs
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VW braces for another difficult year with no new EVs
VW had a poor 2024 and may have a worse 2025 as it faces a lack of new product, problems in China and the U.S., glitchy software and the possibility of further labor issues at home.
www.autonews.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Nice to get a few words in edgeways, in this interesting story.
BYD's outrageous model roll-out pace – throw it at the wall and see what sticks strategy – sees an eighth model arrive across Europe.
Almost a blink and you miss a new product arrival
Almost a blink and you miss a new product arrival
January 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
BYD's outrageous model roll-out pace – throw it at the wall and see what sticks strategy – sees an eighth model arrive across Europe.
Almost a blink and you miss a new product arrival
Almost a blink and you miss a new product arrival
Mark Zuckerberg's derogatory comment on "legacy media" while Meta shamelessly gets into bed with the Trump administration is astonishing.
Quality "legacy media" publishers remain critical of international politics and don't necessarily alter course depending on the government like "neo-media"!
Quality "legacy media" publishers remain critical of international politics and don't necessarily alter course depending on the government like "neo-media"!
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Mark Zuckerberg's derogatory comment on "legacy media" while Meta shamelessly gets into bed with the Trump administration is astonishing.
Quality "legacy media" publishers remain critical of international politics and don't necessarily alter course depending on the government like "neo-media"!
Quality "legacy media" publishers remain critical of international politics and don't necessarily alter course depending on the government like "neo-media"!
Tesla to attract a raft of OEMs into its 2025 EU CO2 regulatory credit pool.
More here:
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Meanwhile, Mercedes pool with Volvo Cars
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More here:
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Meanwhile, Mercedes pool with Volvo Cars
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Tesla to attract a raft of OEMs into its 2025 EU CO2 regulatory credit pool
Tesla to attract a raft of OEMs into its 2025 EU CO2 regulatory credit pool
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January 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Tesla to attract a raft of OEMs into its 2025 EU CO2 regulatory credit pool.
More here:
www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/tesla-t...
Meanwhile, Mercedes pool with Volvo Cars
www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/mercede...
More here:
www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/tesla-t...
Meanwhile, Mercedes pool with Volvo Cars
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Exclusive: The UK surpasses Germany in becoming Europe's largest pure-electric (BEV) car market for the first time.
More here:
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More here:
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January 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Exclusive: The UK surpasses Germany in becoming Europe's largest pure-electric (BEV) car market for the first time.
More here:
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More here:
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The biggest threat to EU stability?
a) Xi
b) Putin
c) Musk
C.
As a free market capitalist whose biggest hate, regulation, is putting the brakes on his companies, Musk is partly dictating the political discourse via X, and is now backing anti-EU parties, similar to his Trump move.
a) Xi
b) Putin
c) Musk
C.
As a free market capitalist whose biggest hate, regulation, is putting the brakes on his companies, Musk is partly dictating the political discourse via X, and is now backing anti-EU parties, similar to his Trump move.
December 24, 2024 at 9:54 AM
The biggest threat to EU stability?
a) Xi
b) Putin
c) Musk
C.
As a free market capitalist whose biggest hate, regulation, is putting the brakes on his companies, Musk is partly dictating the political discourse via X, and is now backing anti-EU parties, similar to his Trump move.
a) Xi
b) Putin
c) Musk
C.
As a free market capitalist whose biggest hate, regulation, is putting the brakes on his companies, Musk is partly dictating the political discourse via X, and is now backing anti-EU parties, similar to his Trump move.
Elon: "How do I deflect a 0.7 million unit recall?"
Advisor (Musk): "Get into bed with the AFD"
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Advisor (Musk): "Get into bed with the AFD"
www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/...
Tesla ruft fast 700.000 Fahrzeuge zurück
Eine Fehlfunktion sorgt bei Hunderttausenden Tesla-Modellen für erhöhtes Unfallrisiko. Der Autobauer muss die betroffenen Modelle zurückrufen und aufrüsten – und das nicht zum ersten Mal.
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December 20, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Elon: "How do I deflect a 0.7 million unit recall?"
Advisor (Musk): "Get into bed with the AFD"
www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/...
Advisor (Musk): "Get into bed with the AFD"
www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/...
So it looks like if you're a Tesla driver in Germany, you can now add a vote AFD bumper sticker to the back of your car for the upcoming German elections
Musk endorsed AfD — Germany’s anti immigrant, far right party. “Only the AfD can save Germany,” Musk writes in this screenshot below…
December 20, 2024 at 12:29 PM
So it looks like if you're a Tesla driver in Germany, you can now add a vote AFD bumper sticker to the back of your car for the upcoming German elections
Can anyone offer an explanation as to why there are a large amount of Tesla models registered with Berlin registration plates at Tesla dealerships on the other side of the country? OEMs registering models themselves isn't uncommon, but I'm trying to get to the bottom of this. Can anyone offer info?
December 12, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Can anyone offer an explanation as to why there are a large amount of Tesla models registered with Berlin registration plates at Tesla dealerships on the other side of the country? OEMs registering models themselves isn't uncommon, but I'm trying to get to the bottom of this. Can anyone offer info?
Having been upstaged by Tavares in a decade-long spat since former Stellantis CEO jumped ship from Renault, having been refused the brand's top job by then Alliance chief Ghosn, it must have been a party feeling at Renault this w/e as Stellantis reapplied to join ACEA under the stewardship of de Meo
December 8, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Having been upstaged by Tavares in a decade-long spat since former Stellantis CEO jumped ship from Renault, having been refused the brand's top job by then Alliance chief Ghosn, it must have been a party feeling at Renault this w/e as Stellantis reapplied to join ACEA under the stewardship of de Meo
The EU's desperation to #derisk from China has caused VDL to double down on the Mercosur/EU free-trade agreement and jump on a plane to Montevideo, perhaps leveraging France's current weakness?! South America could become a rumble in the jungle between European car manufacturers and Chinese OEMs.
December 6, 2024 at 11:12 AM
The EU's desperation to #derisk from China has caused VDL to double down on the Mercosur/EU free-trade agreement and jump on a plane to Montevideo, perhaps leveraging France's current weakness?! South America could become a rumble in the jungle between European car manufacturers and Chinese OEMs.
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Quick piece from me in this week's @economist.com on Britain's electric-car rollout.
Despite (partly-justified) grumbling from the industry about too-harsh government's targets, Britain only is in the middle of the pack in Europe on EV adoption, at best.
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
Despite (partly-justified) grumbling from the industry about too-harsh government's targets, Britain only is in the middle of the pack in Europe on EV adoption, at best.
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
December 5, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Quick piece from me in this week's @economist.com on Britain's electric-car rollout.
Despite (partly-justified) grumbling from the industry about too-harsh government's targets, Britain only is in the middle of the pack in Europe on EV adoption, at best.
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
Despite (partly-justified) grumbling from the industry about too-harsh government's targets, Britain only is in the middle of the pack in Europe on EV adoption, at best.
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
It appears former Opel, Continental and Volkswagen China CEO Carl-Thomas Neumann has been dragged into the dieselgate scandal during his tenure at Continental. He currently sits on the board at Polestar and followed his role at Opel in a perhaps calculated move to green mobility start-ups
December 5, 2024 at 8:34 AM
It appears former Opel, Continental and Volkswagen China CEO Carl-Thomas Neumann has been dragged into the dieselgate scandal during his tenure at Continental. He currently sits on the board at Polestar and followed his role at Opel in a perhaps calculated move to green mobility start-ups
Not to knock Volkswagen Group's regulatory roadmap off track but...
anyone in the market for a VW Group MEB model and isn't in a rush would surely wait until 2027 once the new @rivianofficial.bsky.social JV digital architecture is rolled out across MEB models.
anyone in the market for a VW Group MEB model and isn't in a rush would surely wait until 2027 once the new @rivianofficial.bsky.social JV digital architecture is rolled out across MEB models.
December 4, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Not to knock Volkswagen Group's regulatory roadmap off track but...
anyone in the market for a VW Group MEB model and isn't in a rush would surely wait until 2027 once the new @rivianofficial.bsky.social JV digital architecture is rolled out across MEB models.
anyone in the market for a VW Group MEB model and isn't in a rush would surely wait until 2027 once the new @rivianofficial.bsky.social JV digital architecture is rolled out across MEB models.
This is an interesting appointment from VDL, especially given the upcoming 2026 report from the Commission regarding the progress of the EU passenger car and van CO2 fleet emission targets going forward.
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ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Philippe Lamberts takes up a role advising the President of the European Commission
The main task of the 61-year-old Belgian national, former Co-leader of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and business executive, is to help to support the transition to a climate-neutral
ec.europa.eu
November 25, 2024 at 2:24 PM
This is an interesting appointment from VDL, especially given the upcoming 2026 report from the Commission regarding the progress of the EU passenger car and van CO2 fleet emission targets going forward.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
China's SAIC MG brand witnessed its third quarter West European volumes come within 0.2ppts of equalling Fiat.
More details will be provided in the Q3 edition of our European China OEM Study, which will be published next Monday.
Source: www.schmidtautomotiveresearch.com
More details will be provided in the Q3 edition of our European China OEM Study, which will be published next Monday.
Source: www.schmidtautomotiveresearch.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:00 PM
China's SAIC MG brand witnessed its third quarter West European volumes come within 0.2ppts of equalling Fiat.
More details will be provided in the Q3 edition of our European China OEM Study, which will be published next Monday.
Source: www.schmidtautomotiveresearch.com
More details will be provided in the Q3 edition of our European China OEM Study, which will be published next Monday.
Source: www.schmidtautomotiveresearch.com
Don't mention Jaguar
Don't mention Jaguar
Don't mention Jaguar
Bloomberg: 👇
Don't mention Jaguar
Don't mention Jaguar
Bloomberg: 👇
November 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Don't mention Jaguar
Don't mention Jaguar
Don't mention Jaguar
Bloomberg: 👇
Don't mention Jaguar
Don't mention Jaguar
Bloomberg: 👇
Another tough day for the German auto industry: Ford cut 2,900 of 4,000 European jobs in... Germany!
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Another tough day for the German auto industry: Ford cut 2,900 of 4,000 European jobs in Germany.
Ford announced today that they will cut 4,000 automotive jobs across its European business, with almost three in four (2,700) coming from Ge
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November 20, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Another tough day for the German auto industry: Ford cut 2,900 of 4,000 European jobs in... Germany!
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From our Q3 European Chinese OEM Study
Are Chinese OEMs about to flick the switch on tariff headwinds focusing on BEVs and slide into Europe through the backdoor with PHEVs and HEVs for now?
10% of BYD's W-European volumes were PHEV in September
Source: www.schmidtautomotiveresearch.com
Are Chinese OEMs about to flick the switch on tariff headwinds focusing on BEVs and slide into Europe through the backdoor with PHEVs and HEVs for now?
10% of BYD's W-European volumes were PHEV in September
Source: www.schmidtautomotiveresearch.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:40 PM
From our Q3 European Chinese OEM Study
Are Chinese OEMs about to flick the switch on tariff headwinds focusing on BEVs and slide into Europe through the backdoor with PHEVs and HEVs for now?
10% of BYD's W-European volumes were PHEV in September
Source: www.schmidtautomotiveresearch.com
Are Chinese OEMs about to flick the switch on tariff headwinds focusing on BEVs and slide into Europe through the backdoor with PHEVs and HEVs for now?
10% of BYD's W-European volumes were PHEV in September
Source: www.schmidtautomotiveresearch.com
It is always a pleasure to contribute to our friends at @zeit.de online.
Headline: "Toyota, the brand for sensible consumers, and who are largely avoiding pure electric cars – and the growing success they are having in doing so"
A very rough translation there!
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Toyota: Die Spießermarke, die E-Autos meidet – und damit erfolgreich ist
Von wegen die Chinesen kommen: Toyota mischt den europäischen Automarkt auf. Das liegt auch daran, dass die Japaner bei E-Autos eine ungewöhnliche Strategie fahren.
www.zeit.de
November 19, 2024 at 3:21 PM
It is always a pleasure to contribute to our friends at @zeit.de online.
Headline: "Toyota, the brand for sensible consumers, and who are largely avoiding pure electric cars – and the growing success they are having in doing so"
A very rough translation there!
www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2...
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The nearest gas station is 3km from me; the nearest high speed DC charger is 300m
November 14, 2024 at 4:02 AM
The nearest gas station is 3km from me; the nearest high speed DC charger is 300m