Finally cancelled my prefered music streaming player...

Alternative for music on the go?

I've gone through my old vinyl collection and collected all the free download slips of paper added since around 2010.

Time to delve back into some pretty amazing music, starting with Lubomyr Melnyk

BMW Group meets EU CO2 emissions regulatory hurdle during 2025 BMW Group confirms it met its weight-based EU CO2 fleet emissions target for 2025, without using flexibility mechanisms or pooling.

BMW Group meets EU CO2 emissions regulatory hurdle during 2025

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Number one US BEV manufacturer across Germany during 2025?

Tesla?

Nope.

Ford?

Yeap

Oh I see your point. It was a typo. The word US brand was omitted. will have to delete and repost

Is this from AI? If so, it's not very good.

European Automotove Market Intelligence Research Reports | Schmidt Automotive Research EUROPEAN AUTO MARKET DATA AND FORECASTS LEADING AUTOMOTIVE MARKET INTELLIGENCE TRUSTED BY THE BEST IN THE INDUSTRY

I'm pleased to say our forecast for the Western European new BEV passenger car market for 2025, published in our January 2025 study, came to within 0.4ppts of the final end-of-the-year result

Always good to revisit forecasts. 👍

Studies are all available here:
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Is Volvo's EX60 the closet thing we have to the Apple Car? Volvo along with premium peers, slam the door shut on EV first-movers Volvo Cars, presenting its new EX60, which is much more than just a new model, demonstrates that Western OEMs can finally lead the EV pack with profitable, non-compromised, tech-driven electric cars, ...

While Apple gave up on their car, or so-called, project Titan, have @volvo-cars.bsky.social just presented their interpretation of what could have been:

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The story is that A/S tariffs will be dropped, and minimum prices will replace them, effectively at the same price point as the tariffs were adding, but the nuance is that OEMs will keep these inflated margins. I wouldn't call it a blow to Tesla

🇩🇪 Even the premium-driven German new car market is seeing a regulatory-driven CO2 dive.

Average monthly fleet emissions across all new passenger cars fell below 100g/km for the first time on record in November... and below Spain!

🇫🇷 France heads towards <80g/km

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Great to see one of the auto industry's most prominent designers back.

Thomas Ingenlath returns to Volvo Cars, as Chief Design Officer, effective 1 February 2026.

He didn't make it far from Polestar, though, located down the road in Gothenburg, where he was previously CEO.

Polestar 2 below:

Tesla's share of the W-European new BEV passenger car market dips below 10% on a 12-month rolling basis for the first time on record.

Reasons?

Increased competition from incumbents introducing new product in line with CO2 targets

- Chinese OEMs entrance

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Every fifth new car across Western Europe now a pure electric model The Western European new BEV passenger car market has now broken through the 20 per cent share of the new car market for the first time, according to Schmidt Automotive Research compiled data.

Every fifth new car across Western Europe now a pure electric model

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This is partially on regulator's shoulders

EU Automotive Package – The Porsche Amendment The winners of the European Commission’s Automotive Package presented at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

EU Automotive Package – The Porsche Amendment

"ICE models to become the haute couture Swiss watches of the motor industry "

A note:

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Here we go! 🚗 🇪🇺 📦

A narrative to fit the European Commission's Automotive Package to be unpacked, days before Christmas, today.

What's the connection between a silent, humble Volkswagen ID. Polo and a high-revving Porsche AG 911? 🚗 🔌 🔥 🇪🇺

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I would say the camo is a reference to that

I have it on good authority that they have been actively seeking to acquire heritage model designations from one OEM. That OEM was unwilling, however.

@volkswagen.bsky.social have learnt how important brand equity is in an EV age

Digging some vintage badge names out of its rich brand cellar, VW presents: "The sporty ID. Polo GTI"

Brand equity: key in a homogenous EV age with new market entrants

🇨🇳 / 🇬🇧 Chinese models now account for every tenth new passenger car entering UK roads

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Chinese carmakers beat South Koreans in Western Europe for first time Japanese are hardest-hit Asian competitor due to lack of EV offerings

Chinese carmakers beat South Koreans in Western Europe for first time – Nikkei Asia: ‘Chinese automakers’ market share in the region reached 8% in September, just overtaking their South Korean peers with 7.8%, according to data from Germany-based Schmidt Automotive Research.’

Bravo Provost! Provost strikes again.

Le synergy-snipper

Citroën Germany has already begun advertising the German purchase subsidies, even though they won't begin until January

Price parity with ICE version would be achieved under some circumstances

That would bring the ëC3 to below €15,000 in some circumstances, or leasing with no Initial payments!

Super journalism in the FT W/E:
"Yet many drivers remain deeply wary of the autonomous car transition. It takes a human about 45 hours to learn to drive a car. Why, I ask, has the tech industry spent more than $100bn trying — and repeatedly failing — to replicate something we can master so easily?

Year to date

Registrations to dealers are 40.7% of BYD's total split, while the average is 15.9%. Normal range?

Not unless they have very large forecourts

I would say that would fall into rental/car-sharing rather than dealership, Felix, which accounts for a further 30% of BYD's distribution

BYD, without question, is producing impressive underlying growth this year, but is seeing a large chunk of that growth coming from unsustainable sources👇

Four-in-ten of its German new car registrations were recorded by their own/franchised dealerships, with just 12% ending up with private consumers

The fact that VW has delayed its usual strategic planning round likely has as much to do with the internal issues the company is facing alongside the European Commission's Automotive Package announcement, pencilled in for next week. Strategic planners might as well be sitting around a pool for now 🌴