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

🚨 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.

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

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"!

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

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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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.

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.

Elon: "How do I deflect a 0.7 million unit recall?"

Advisor (Musk): "Get into bed with the AFD"

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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

You're a pro. I don't know anything about reach. I'm too impulsive ;-) Cheers Felix

That was just to give context to the story. I didn't want to photograph what are possible private plates.

Yes at the dealership between Hamburg and Bremen, on the lot every second model which is licensed has a Berlin plate on a regular basis, not just a one-off. Too many to be just demonstrators.

Yes please Felix

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?

Hi Colin. A really interesting hyperdrive piece today. I would just add a note of caution comparing the Fiat 500e and 500 ICE (price premium). They are in fact two totally different cars with just the nameplate being the most common part.

😂 quintessentially an eye-doctor runaround

I can remember that he was a big Audi fan and seem to recall seeing him in an A6 All-road about 20 years ago. I think it may have even been in an Audi press release but I may be dreaming.

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

They wanted to impose a 30 zone in the inner-city under the previous government but told it was a federal case and they couldn't implement it.

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.

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.

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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

That would have been a lot higher had it not been for the previous German government to veto cities' proposals for 30 zones at a federal basis. Freiburg is a good example.

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.

The sound of a manual kick-down from the engine and exhaust tones, alongside the familiar jolt from downshifting, coupled together with the the roar heading through an alpine tunnel while upshifting would be missed but the overwhelming sound of silence and nature could partially make up for it.

Thunderbirds are go!

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

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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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: 👇

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

Another tough day for the German auto industry: Ford cut 2,900 of 4,000 European jobs in... Germany!

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