A running battle in New York sees to hold Volkswagen controlling shareholders and key execs accountable for the flagrant “dieselgate” scam
Read more...Beleagured US automakers, who remain important employers, face new tsuris in tariff costs and scarcity of key minerals.
Read more...How China was hollowing out Germany’s manufacturers before the loss of cheap Russian energy made matters worse.
Read more...China’s leaders admit to widespread overcapacity, such as in EVs and solar panels. Faillure to solve it could generate Japan-style deflation
Read more...More on US and European car-makers’ vulnerability to China’s new rare earths licensing regime.
Read more...More evidence of Trump cluelessness in his Mexico and China tariffs bobs and weaves.
Read more...The implications of China leading in the proportion of electricity its energy use and pursuing even more electrification.
Read more...The first US trade “deal”, with the UK, looks as ugly as one might have expected.
Read more...The tariff situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of the car industry.
Read more...Trump is about to drop another big tariff shoe, and pretty much no one but very hard core ideologues is on board.
Read more...Despite the Republican applause during Trump’s State of the Union speech, the business press is sounding alarms.
Read more...A look at the fallen state of German manufacturing seems to understate the implications of the conditions it describes.
Read more...Trump is opening up a multi-front economic war by imposing tariffs on America’s biggest trade partners, with the EU next in line. What gives?
Read more...Tesla is now just ar mid-size automaker amid EV competition that is eating its lunch. What might realistic valuations mean for Musk’s clout?
Read more...Nissan, with intensifying cash flow woes and vultures circling, looks like a canary in the coal mine for non-China carmakers.
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