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  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    ExplainerElectric vehicles
    Why the UK plans to water down electric vehicle rules

    With carmakers criticising sales quotas, ministers intend to boost funding for chargers to tackle sluggish demand

    Montage shows business secretary Jonathan Reynolds and an electric car against a colourful background
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    EV charging operators warn shifting rule changes put UK investment at risk

    Future spending would be jeopardised if growth outlook for battery-run vehicles were undermined, says industry

    Car charging point
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Driverless vehicles
    Robotaxi start-up Pony.ai expects cheaper driverless cars on more roads in China in 2025

    Newly listed group plans to quadruple fleet and predicts big cities will extend boundaries for self-driving services

    James Peng and other company figures stand behind a podium that reads ‘Nasdaq’ and ‘Pony’ while cheering and applauding
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    Jaguar’s rebrand has divided opinion. Is ‘Project Roar’ the road to success?

    Kana Inagaki and Henry Mance tell the inside story of an extraordinary corporate decision

    A close-up photo of a shiny metal jaguar cat, poised ready to pounce, on the bonnet of a black car
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    Porsche holding company warns of writedown in Volkswagen stake of up to €20bn

    Management and unions at carmaker will hold a fifth round of talks on Monday over planned factory closures and job cuts

    Rally of the union IG Metall in front of the Volkswagen headquarters
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    LexDriverless vehicles
    GM’s robotaxi dream has been prematurely clamped Premium content

    US carmaker is abandoning self-driving cabs in a sop to its nervous passengers

    A self-driving car from General Motors’ Cruise on a test drive in downtown San Francisco
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Europe Express
    How Europe is bending the rules to spare carmakers from climate fines Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: a dispatch from the political mess in Romania

    German economy minister Robert Habeck
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in America
    Toyota vows to move ahead with $13.9bn battery plant in North Carolina

    Trump’s criticism of EV incentives casts a cloud over largest US investment in clean tech by any foreign automaker

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    CATL
    China’s CATL to build €4.1bn battery factory with Stellantis in European expansion

    Deal for Spanish plant comes despite EU efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese technology

    Stellantis’s electric Opel Rocks-e car on show at the Essen Motor Show in Germany
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthTesla Inc
    The ‘Anti-Elon Tesla Club’: Musk’s politics gives some owners second thoughts

    Some customers are cooling on the best-known electric vehicle brand as the billionaire CEO cultivates close ties to Trump

    Loren Repollo and her Tesla in Florida
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Responsible Investing
    Global green subsidy race draws investor attention

    Europe, the US and China are vying to be the most attractive destination for investment in sustainability

    Chinese carmaker Nio’s 500,000th electric vehicle rolls off the production line. China’s EV sector has been heavily subsidised by the government
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in America
    As South Korean investment grows, so do ‘Koreatowns’

    Companies such as Samsung, Hyundai and LG have helped bring Korean culture to unexpected corners of the US

    A collage-style artwork featuring the Statue of Liberty in the foreground, a $100 bill overlay in red, a city skyline in blue, and dynamic red and blue data lines intersecting the image
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    My awkward brush with green shaming

    In an ideal world we would not need to be prodded into greener behaviour

    Illustration of a worker at their desk while a parade of protesters with pro-green placards marches by
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    LexBitcoin
    Can bitcoin miners find a green way to dig for digital gold? Premium content

    Using a wind farm to produce the cryptocurrency is a nifty, if limited, option

    Wind farm turbines
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    LexUS & Canadian companies
    GM loses its golden goose in China Premium content

    With a slowing market fuelling a price war between local brands, the party for foreign carmakers looks over for now

    Models of GM’s past vehicles on display
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    LexTesla Inc
    Delaware struggles with Tesla investors’ disregard for governance Premium content

    Elon Musk’s pay package case is heading for the state’s Supreme Court

    Tesla cars in Germany
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Stellantis
    Stellantis chief’s exit pay deal to be less than last year’s €36.5mn package

    Large part of Carlos Tavares’ performance-based remuneration lost due to the car company’s declining profits

    Former Stellantis chief executive Carlos Tavares waves before getting into a car in Atessa, Italy in January 2024
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    General Motors Co
    GM takes more than $5bn charge against China businesses

    Move lays bare declining future in what was once the US carmaker’s largest market

    A car assembly line at the SAIC General Motors Co
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Financial services
    Lloyds boss warns of UK ‘investability problem’ after motor finance ruling

    Sector left reeling after court backs consumer complaints about ‘secret commissions’ on car loans

    Black Horse sign
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Behind the Money podcast28 min listen
    Why Northvolt failed to become Europe’s battery champion

    How battery maker Northvolt went from Europe’s best-funded startup to filing for bankruptcy

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla loses bid to restore Musk’s record $56bn pay package

    Delaware judge rejects shareholders’ overwhelming reapproval of award for chief of electric-car maker

    Elon Musk is listening attentively.
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    News in-depthStellantis
    Why Stellantis chief Carlos Tavares was axed

    Portuguese boss refused to budge on pace of EV transition as cries from suppliers, workers and government grew louder

    Carlos Tavares poses at the production line of the new Peugeot e-3008 and e-5008 electric car at the Stellantis car factory
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    VW workers strike at German plants over pay and job cuts

    Union IG Metall said 66,000 workers at nine factories, including the Wolfsburg headquarters, had walked out

    A red IG Metall trade union flag is prominently displayed near the entrance of a Volkswagen plant
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    LexStellantis
    A driverless Stellantis cannot find a route back to success Premium content

    Departure of chief executive Carlos Tavares does not take carmaker much closer to recovery

    A Peugeot 3008 vehicle body is shown on the assembly line at the Stellantis auto plant in Sochaux, France
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Stellantis
    Stellantis shares slide after chief executive Tavares resigns

    World’s fourth-largest carmaker has suffered a sharp decline in profits this year

    Carlos Tavares speaks at a podium during a news conference. A Fiat Grande Panda EV is visible beside him.
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