Automobile

BLOOMBERG The selloff that’s ripped through green stocks looks set to continue into 2024, bringing a fourth consecutive year of losses, according to Bloomberg’s latest Markets Live Pulse survey. The negative sentiment appears poised to engulf a wider array of green asset classes, with Tesla Inc seen at risk of losing its place among the 10 biggest stocks in the ...

BLOOMBERG Nissan Motor Co will significantly ramp up electric-vehicle production in the UK with a £2 billion ($2.5 billion) investment at its Sunderland site in a boon to the country’s car industry. The Japanese carmaker will set up another battery factory and produce electric versions of the popular Qashqai and Juke models at Britain’s largest carmaking hub, it said. Nissan ...

BLOOMBERG Chinese billionaire Li Shufu’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co is raising around $350 million selling part of its stake in Volvo Car AB, responding to investor concerns about the automaker’s limited free float. Geely, which owns a web of automotive interests in Europe, offered approximately 100 million shares in the company at 37 kronor ($3.49) apiece, according to a ...

BLOOMBERG The European Union (EU) enacted a slew of new rules earlier this year to fight the kind of hate speech and disinformation that officials say is rife on Elon Musk’s X platform, but the bloc isn’t able to enforce them yet. The EU’s main tool to clamp down on objectionable content, the Digital Services Act, went into effect on ...

BLOOMBERG Renault SA will rejuvenate the Twingo for the electric era as part of broader efforts to show its EV business can quickly bring new plug-in models to market. The redesigned city car, presented at an investor event, will be sold from 2026 for less than €20,000 ($21,680), putting Renault in contention to produce affordable EVs in Europe. Chinese manufacturers ...

BLOOMBERG Honda Motor Co will hike the pay of some US employees by 11% following the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) historic contract victories at its unionised Detroit competitors, according to a company memo seen by Bloomberg. “Honda continuously reviews our total rewards packages to ensure we remain competitive within our industry,” the company’s human resources department wrote in a memo ...

BLOOMBERG After nearly twenty years designing Porsche 911s and Cayennes, Michael Mauer says new competitors led by EV brands from China are making managers and designers in Germany more receptive to risky vehicle concepts. “These startups, with no heritage, they can do things completely different,” Porsche AG and Volkswagen AG’s head of design said in an interview. “I consider it ...

BLOOMBERG Tesla Inc. this week tempered its growth expectations, signaling that pain is coming for the electric-vehicle industry, a Morgan Stanley analyst said on Friday. Adam Jonas, a long-time bull on the EV behemoth, said investors should seriously consider the broader implications for the EV industry globally after the company’s disappointing third-quarter results and its cautious earnings conference call. Demand ...

BLOOMBERG BYD Co is poised to overtake Tesla Inc as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles as the Chinese automaker’s global sales push gains greater traction. China’s best-selling car brand came within a whisker of toppling Tesla last quarter after factory downtime led to the US automaker’s first delivery decline in more than a year. BYD sold 431,603 fully-electric ...

BLOOMBERG Tesla Inc reintroduced a Model Y crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV) with rear wheel drive in the US, after reporting third quarter deliveries that fell short of Wall Street expectations. The starting price of the rear-wheel drive Model Y is now $43,990, according to Tesla’s website, and have a stated range of 242-260 miles. The electric vehicles likely use ...