Xiaomi’s European Launch Plan: What Its New Global Site Reveals and Hides
Chinese brands have been announcing European arrivals for about five years now, and the announcements...
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China Isn’t Sneaking Into Europe’s Car Factories — Stellantis And Nissan Are Handing Over The Keys
Picture an Opel dealer in Zaragoza a couple of years from now, selling a compact...
BMW Figured Out How To Turn Scrap Steel Into New Cars. Europe’s New Recycling Law Doesn’t Even Ask For That
BMW put out a number this week that sounds like a win: 51 percent. That’s...
How Europe Calculates a Billion-Euro Truck Penalty Without Testing a Single Tailpipe
Fines for emissions usually mean somebody got caught cheating. Not this time. Daimler Truck’s problem...
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...
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,...