Exclusive: The UK surpasses Germany in becoming Europe's largest pure-electric (BEV) car market for the first time.

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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.

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?

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.

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.

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

Don't mention Jaguar
Don't mention Jaguar
Don't mention Jaguar

Bloomberg: 👇

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