- New Mercedes EQE electric SUV seen for the first time – Autocar: Mercedes-Benz is testing what appears to be a crossover version of the 2022 EQE, set to join the …
- Ford secures £500 million loan guarantee from UK government – Autocar: Loan will boost exports and EV investment and “secure thousands of British jobs” Th…
- Audi chief sees pre-COVID-19 sales only by 2022/23 – Just-Auto: Volkswagen Group luxury car unit Audi expects car sales to reach pre-COVID-19 levels only by 2022 or 2023, chief executive Markus Duesmann told a German business newspaper.
- AutoNation profit jumps on lower expenses, gain in Vroom investment – Reuters: U.S. auto dealer chain AutoNation Inc (AN. … Chief Executive Mike Jackson told Reuters that retail demand for vehicles recovered …
- Tesla’s ‘Home-Run Quarter’ Leaves Even the Bears Praising Elon Musk – Bloomberg: Tesla”s ‘Home-Run Quarter” Leaves Even the Bears Praising Elon Musk
- Elon Musk’s Dodger Stadium Tunnel Was Supposed to Be Ready By Opening Day – Bloomberg: … to whisk baseball fans to the team’s stadium in minutes using an electric-car filled tunnel, built by Elon Musk’s Boring Co. It would be ready, he said, …
- Weak demand hits Hyundai Motor Q2 profit – Just-Auto: Hyundai Motor on Thursday announced second quarter profit for 2020 fell 75% on year, the steepest in seven quarters and missing analyst estimates, as weak global demand due to the pandemic overshadowed sales of high end models in South Korea.
- Audi developing vehicle-to-grid charging system for EVs – Autocar: Audi trials bidirectional charging, which allows EVs to store energy and feed it to homes when re…
- BMW Group Plant Munich gears up for fully-electric future – Just-Auto: BMW Group Plant Munich gears up for fully-electric future
- Tesla to focus on making cars affordable after profit boost – Autocar: Tesla Model Y Electric car maker received boost after recording fourth consecutive quarterly p…
- Volkswagen sees Amazon-built ‘industrial cloud’ as future B2B marketplace – Reuters: Volkswagen sees Amazon-built ‘industrial cloud’ as future B2B marketplace
- Hyundai Motor second-quarter beats estimates, but warns of long road to market recovery – Reuters: Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) reported a smaller-than-expected drop in profit on high-margin domestic sales and said, while …
- Volkswagen to raise stake in JAC-VW – Just-Auto: Volkswagen AG plans to invest CNY5.22bn (US$746m) to increase its stake in its JAC-Volkswagen joint venture in China from 50% to 75%, according to a Shanghai Stock Exchange filing by its local partner JAC Motors.
- ‘Please mine more nickel,’ Musk urges as Tesla boosts production – Reuters: Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk urged miners to produce more nickel, a key ingredient in the batteries that power the company’s electric cars, …
- Daimler Expects to Make Operating Profit This Year Despite Virus – Bloomberg: Daimler Expects to Make Operating Profit This Year Despite Virus
- Fiat Chrysler Workers Sue Company Over Bribes to Their Union – Bloomberg: Fiat Chrysler Workers Sue Company Over Bribes to Their Union
- Musk Promises ‘Giant Contract’ for Efficiently Mined Nickel – Bloomberg: Musk Promises ‘Giant Contract” for Efficiently Mined Nickel
- Tesla posts fourth straight quarterly profit – Reuters: Tesla posts fourth straight quarterly profit
- Jaguar Land Rover trials contactless touchscreens – Autocar: ‘Predictive touch’ developed with Cambridge University engineering department to reduce disease t…
- Tesla defies predictions, soaring to first yearlong profit streak – Nikkei:
- Musk Chooses Texas Site for Tesla’s Cybertruck Assembly Plant – Bloomberg: Elon Musk gestures while introducing the Tesla Cybertruck in Hawthorne, California on November 21, 2019. Photographer: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via …
- “The Industrial Cloud will become the App Store for our plants” – Volkswagenag: Together with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and integration partner Siemens, Volkswagen is opening up the Industrial Cloud to other companies. An interview with Nihar Patel (Volkswagen) and Sarah Cooper (AWS). …
- Tesla will build its next Gigafactory near Austin, Texas – CNBC: Musk also added that Tesla will continue to grow in California, where it will build the Tesla Model S and the Model X for global deliveries and the Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y for North America.