Audi Already Closed One EV Plant. The One It Might Close Next Builds an EV, Too.
Audi already knows what happens to a plant that builds an electric car nobody buys...
Europe
Stellantis Is Profitable Again. It Also Just Told You Which Of Its 14 Brands Don’t Matter.
Stellantis reported a profit on Thursday. Wire copy treated it as a comeback story: red...
Stellantis Just Sold Its Car-Sharing Business to a Company That Buys Other People’s Failures for a Living
When a company sells off a division, the buyer usually tells you more than the...
Ford’s Empty Spanish Factory Found a Savior: The Chinese Company It Sold Volvo To in 2010
Ford and Geely just announced they’re going to build cars together in Valencia, Spain, starting...
Polestar Just Stopped Fighting Its US Ban. Its 32 Dealers Didn’t Get A Vote
Polestar didn’t lose its fight to stay in America this week. It lost that fight...
Europe Wants Satellites To Choke Your Throttle By 2030 — Its Own Safety Lab Says The Tech Still Can’t Read A Sign
Nobody at the European Commission is going to volunteer this part, so here it is:...
Stellantis Is Bragging About European Growth. It Forgot to Mention a Chinese Company Delivered Most of It.
Stellantis told investors this week that its European shipments climbed five percent in the second...
Europe Just Regulated Brake Dust Like Exhaust — So Bosch Cut the Wire to Your Brake Pedal
A market research report making the rounds this week claims the global regenerative braking systems...
BYD Tried Twice to Buy Its Way Into Renault. Renault Said No Twice, and Money Had Nothing to Do With It
For most of the last two decades, if a Western automaker wanted to sell cars...
Brussels Says Its Car Industry Is in ‘Mortal Danger.’ It Left Out Who Loaded the Gun
Stéphane Séjourné, the European Commission’s executive vice-president for industry, told the European Parliament this week...
VW, Porsche, and Honda All Stumbled the Same Week, And It’s Not a Coincidence
The global auto industry just lived through one of its roughest stretches in recent memory,...
Stellantis Halts Production at Multiple European Factories Amid Weak Demand
This doesn’t sound good.
EV Sales Growth Stalls in California and Europe as Early-Adopter Demand Fades
The bandwagon has broken down.
Czech Police Finally Catch Driver Who Spent Six Years Racing Ferrari F1 Car on Public Roads
The guy has finally been caught.
Stellantis Leader Warns EV Mandates Could Wreck The Industry
The EV bandwagon doesn’t like what he has to say one bit.