Recent trends

CEO Ola Kallenius faces a “validation year” that his plan will deliver growth and profits. Source link

AI can help customers and lenders but also fraudsters, according to professionals in the auto finance and auto retail ecosystem. Source link

Americans tolerate tens of thousands of human-caused road deaths yearly, but robotaxis face a higher bar as rare injury crashes test public patience. Source link

Renault joins suppliers in responding to Europe’s military buildup amid a car production downturn, Ukraine war pressures, and the Trump administration’s interest in taking possession of Greenland. Source link

Joe Ward, Tesla’s VP for EMEA, will lead the company’s sales, service and delivery organization, Bloomberg reported. Source link

Tesla said that a works council meeting is a non-public event and that recording it constituted a criminal offense. Source link

Compact SUVs accounted for nearly one in five sales in Europe as demand from wealthier northern markets and automaker profit strategies reshaped the bestseller list. Volume carmakers such as Renault.

Honda said one-time EV-related expenses including losses and impairments on vehicles sold in the U.S. and write-offs of development assets cost the company $1.7 billion. Source link

Automobile retail sales rose nearly 18 per cent year-on-year to over 27 lakh units in January, led by continued post-GST momentum, healthy rural cash flows on the back of harvest.

Over half of vehicles will still use combustion engines through 2040. Improving thermal efficiency and hybrid technology is essential to decarbonization alongside electric vehicle adoption. Source link