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🚨 Polestar to manufacture in Europe, navigating geopolitical trade headwinds www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/polesta...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Nice to get a few words in edgeways, in this interesting story.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

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"!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Tesla to attract a raft of OEMs into its 2025 EU CO2 regulatory credit pool. More here: www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/tesla-t... Meanwhile, Mercedes pool with Volvo Cars www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/mercede...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Exclusive: The UK surpasses Germany in becoming Europe's largest pure-electric (BEV) car market for the first time. More here: schmidtmatthias.de/so/cbPGxWPEd...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Elon: "How do I deflect a 0.7 million unit recall?" Advisor (Musk): "Get into bed with the AFD" www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

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?

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

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. www.economist.com/britain/2024...

submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

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. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Don't mention Jaguar Don't mention Jaguar Don't mention Jaguar Bloomberg: 👇

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Another tough day for the German auto industry: Ford cut 2,900 of 4,000 European jobs in... Germany! www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/another...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

It is always a pleasure to contribute to our friends at @zeit.de online. Headline: "Toyota, the brand for sensible consumers, and who are largely avoiding pure electric cars – and the growing success they are having in doing so" A very rough translation there! www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment