Month: October 2022

PARIS — Renault and Stellantis unveiled new French-made electric vehicles at the Paris auto show on Monday, as President Emmanuel Macron announced bigger subsidies for poorer families to buy EVs and pushed for more local production. In an interview with business daily Les Echos before visiting the show, Macron said EV subsidies for lower-income households
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10:42 AM ET Formula One teams who spend more than allowed by the rules are effectively cheating and should face stiff sporting and financial penalties, McLaren boss Zak Brown wrote to FIA, F1’s governing body. The BBC reported details of the letter on Monday and McLaren confirmed they were correct. Championship leaders Red Bull, who
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Stellantis may stop manufacturing cars in China as geopolitical tensions escalate and western manufacturers cede market share to domestic players. The producer of Peugeot and Citroën cars may implement an “asset-light” strategy for those brands in the world’s largest auto market, CEO Carlos Tavares said Monday. Earlier this year, he used the same phrase to
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An expanding Swickard Auto Group entered Southern California via a majority stake purchase of John Elway’s Crown Toyota in Ontario, one of the Japanese automaker’s highest-volume U.S. dealerships. And the dealership’s price tag also fetched near-record blue sky value, according to the broker who facilitated the sale. Blue sky is the intangible value of a
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BMW will stop making electric versions of Mini hatchbacks in the UK, dealing a setback to a country trying to transition its already diminished auto industry to full-electric models. Although the Mini factory near Oxford, England, will again start making convertibles starting in 2025, BMW has elected to make electric hatchbacks and a small SUV
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Mercedes-Benz is gunning for the heart of the U.S. auto market with a battery-powered version of its workhorse GLE crossover. The midsize EQE goes on sale early next year and fleshes out Mercedes’ electric crossover lineup that is now bookended by the compact EQB and full-size EQS. The EQE crossover “for us, is yet another
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Five years ago, Polestar Chairman Hakan Samuelsson boldly decided to turn a Swedish tuning specialist into a global stand-alone brand for high-performance electrified models. Equally daring was the former Volvo Cars CEO’s decision to promote his design boss, Thomas Ingenlath, to CEO of Polestar. His faith has been rewarded as Ingenlath took
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