Europe

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is looking to enroll German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to help delay upcoming tariffs on electric vehicles shipped between Britain and the European Union, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.K. prime minister tapping the leader to the home of Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes comes as the EU is

Stellantis’ STLA Medium platform will underpin at least 2 million EVs a year and offer a range of up to 700 km (435 miles) on vehicles starting with the Peugeot 3008 SUV by the end of this year. The platform — which Stellantis says is “BEV by design” — is one of four electric architectures

H2 Green Steel and ZF Friedrichshafen have signed a seven-year steel delivery deal worth 1.5 billion euros ($1.64 billion). The agreement, one of H2GS’s largest yet, covers a “significant share” of ZF’s annual steel demand of about 2.5 million tons, according to a statement Tuesday. Deliveries of near zero-emissions steel are due to start in

TURIN — Fiat is doubling its offering in Europe’s crucial small SUV segment with the New 600e, a five-door, five-seat EV that will coexist for at least two years with the 500X, which was introduced in 2014. Fiat plans to keep the 500X in production until early 2026. The 500X is offered only with internal

Tata Group has posted job openings for a U.K.-based cell developer and construction project manager, suggesting the parent company of JLR is preparing to locate its new battery factory in Britain. The job advertisements, posted on LinkedIn, are for Tata’s battery-cell operation Agratas, which is building two factories — one in India and one in

The magnitude of Peter Horbury’s sudden passing last week is still being absorbed by the industry. Two themes have run through the outpouring of condolences: Horbury’s brilliance as a designer for his work at brands such as Lotus, Lynk & CO, Volvo, Ford, Lincoln and Chrysler during nearly 50 years in the business, and for

PARIS — Dacia will sponsor a factory team to race the Dakar desert rally in 2025 as a way to showcase carbon-neutral mobility using synthetic fuels, brand CEO Denis Le Vot said. The Renault brand’s entries will be driven by the French rally champion Sebastien Loeb and Christina Gutierrez of Spain, a stage winner and seven-time

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – As Zeekr, the Geely premium full-electric brand, prepares to enter the European market, it is taking aim at Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz customers who are switching to EVs from diesel models. “You cannot play in the European premium pond if you are not able to lure at least a small portion of

MG Motor, a unit of Chinese automaker SAIC Motor, announced a new leasing offer whereby drivers in France can get for 99 euros ($107.6) a month the MG4 electric car, matching a program the French government would like to use to benefit cars made in Europe. The promotion runs from July 1 through August 31

Visionary, disruptor, revolutionary – no automaker is equated with subversive terms as much as Tesla. The U.S. electric car pioneer has turned the industry upside down. After more than 100 years of the all-powerful internal combustion engine, Tesla came along and helped the electric drive to achieve a breakthrough. This was indeed a revolution. And

Former colleagues and industry executives paid tribute to Lotus design chief Peter Horbury, who has died at age 73. Horbury, probably best known for turning around Volvo design, died on Thursday in China, according to multiple sources. “He was a proper giant in car design. Everybody knew Peter. There will be a pain felt throughout

Volvo Cars has hired a “digital-first business leader” to help it transition into generating half of its global sales online by 2025. Gretchen Saegh-Fleming will join the automaker July 3 from Hydrow, which sells home rowing machines, where she served as chief commercial officer for two and a half years. Prior to that she spent

Audi’s new CEO Gernot Doellner is hardly known to the public and even industry insiders are likely to have Googled him after it was announced that he will replace Markus Duesmann on Sept. 1 Doellner, 54, is a 30-year veteran of Volkswagen Group and a close associate of VW Group and Porsche CEO Oliver Blume.

Audi will replace CEO Markus Duesmann with Volkswagen Group strategy chief Gernot Doellner. Doellner will take over from Duesmann on Sept. 1, Audi said in a statement on Thursday. Duesman’s future had been in doubt following a number of mishaps and slow progress on innovation that has seen the luxury brand fall behind competitors BMW

ROME — Two people have died after a hybrid car prototype that was being developed and tested with European Union funds blew up last week in the southern Italian city of Naples. The Life-Save project aimed to turn cars with conventional combustion engines into hybrid vehicles, running at least partly on solar energy. One vehicle

Nissan installed a camera surveillance system at the home of former COO Ashwani Gupta so the automaker’s internal security team could monitor him, according to the preliminary findings of an investigation into the surveillance, two people with knowledge of the report told Reuters. Nissan has been investigating a claim that CEO Makato Uchida carried out

Volkswagen is reducing output of electric cars at its Emden plant in northern Germany due to flagging sales. Production of the ID4 full-electric SUV and the brand’s new ID7 all-electric sedan will be cut over the next two weeks, the Nordwest-Zeitung newspaper reported, citing the factory’s works council. The plant’s three-week summer vacation will be

BMW and Volkswagen were big winners last month in Belgium, where a looming increase in the country’s CO2 tax led to a huge surge in demand for electrified cars, which helped lift the overall market by 41 percent. BMW was boosted by a 208 percent sales increase for the 1 Series, a 33 percent gain