Tesla lays off 'more than 10%' of its global workforce (electrek.co)
Italian government squabble forces Alfa Romeo to ditch 'Milano' name (www.arenaev.com)
Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise at time of crash: NTSB (fordauthority.com)
Malaysia’s King is world’s first private owner of China’s most expensive car (www.straitstimes.com)
Mercedes-Benz recalls 341,000 vehicles for fire risk (www.yahoo.com)
I’m confused about the number. Every media seems to use a different number. “341k” is the largest one I saw.
Biden urged to ban China-made electric vehicles from the US - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
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Foul Play? On the Scale and Scope of Industrial Subsidies in China (www.ifw-kiel.de)
According to recent data of 2022, direct government subsidies for some of the dominant Chinese manufacturers of green technology products had also increased significantly - the electric car manufacturer BYD alone received EUR 2.1 billion. […] The authors recommend the EU to use its anti-subsidy proceeding against BEV imports...
Volkswagen to invest $2.7 billion in Chinese production site (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14360120...
Volkswagen electric car sales plunge by 24% as Europe returns to petrol (finance.yahoo.com)
Alfa Romeo's first EV is the Milano (www.autocarpro.in)
Cars are piling up at European ports at an alarming rate (qz.com)
Cruise resumes manual driving (www.getcruise.com)
Mercedes will finally unveil its 'unrivaled' electric G-Class later this month (electrek.co)
Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition (www.reuters.com)
Tesla has canceled the long-promised inexpensive car that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker, according to three sources familiar with the matter and company messages seen by Reuters....
Tesla’s Cybertrucks were ‘rushed out,’ are malfunctioning at astounding rate (nypost.com)
Toyota signs Huawei to help accelerate smart driving development (www.arenaev.com)
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more (www.theregister.com)
An estimated 2,000 employees were working on Apple’s car project at the time it was canceled, and while many will have been redeployed elsewhere – possibly on Apple’s generative AI projects – the notices are evidence that not all were retained.