EU Calls Trump’s Bluff on Auto Tariffs as Trump Tries Dead on Arrival WTO Exit Plan
The EU is neither happy with nor cowed by Trump’s latest trade threat.
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Wolf Richter: Beyond the Hysteria About Auto Tariffmageddon
After decades of relentless offshoring, the equation may change for auto and component makers.
Read more...Tesla And GM Close To Capping Out On Electric Vehicle Tax Incentives
Tesla and GM are nearing the end of a subsidy road.
Read more...Brexit: Chaos Visible
As businesses finally start telling the press they are worried about Brexit, the press is still not coming to grips with key issues.
Read more...Unsafe At Any Speed Redux, Self-Driving Cars, and Legal Liability
Senators seek information on testing protocols for self-driving cars; mandatory arbitration for further lawsuits involving such vehicles looms as a threat.
Read more...Remote-Controlled Self-Driving Cars: Unworkable Technology for Unproven Technology
Debunking a scheme to reduce the risk of self-driving cars: remote control operators.
Read more...Elon Musk’s Two Great Virtues
Elon Musk can conjure up wonderful images of the future. In the here and now, can he even produce cars (batteries? solar panels? anything?) on schedule? What is going to happen to Tesla?
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fourteen: The New Yorker Lays Out the Template for Pro-Uber Propaganda
Dissecting the New Yorker’s fawning profile of new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
Read more...Tesla Encounters the Material World
The likely failure of Tesla’s hyper-automated manufacturing process, and the externalities of battery fires in electric vehicles.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Tesla Slammed by Tesla (and Moody’s)
Tesla’s bubble is starting to deflate.
Read more...Trump’s Tariff Threat to Kick Off Trade War?
Trump is threatening to kick off a trade slugfest via tariffs on steel and aluminum. Will he follow through?
Read more...Tories, Trapped by Their Red Lines, Again Blame EU as Clock Runs Down
Assume the brace position. A hard Brexit is looking more likely.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirteen: Even After 4Q Cost Cuts, Uber Lost $4.5 Billion in 2017
How the business press got the story on Uber’s latest financial report wrong.
Read more...Dear Elon: Tesla’s Base Is Not the Model S Coalition
How Elon Musk is doing a great job of alienation a critically important part of Tesla’s Model S coalition.
Read more...Wired: Self Driving Car Hype Crashes Into Harsh Realities
Why self driving cars are not coming any time soon.
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