- China’s biggest automaker SAIC to have nearly 100 new EV models by 2025 – Reuters: China’s biggest automaker SAIC to have nearly 100 new EV models by 2025
- Volkswagen, Chinese ventures to invest 15 billion euros in electric vehicles – Reuters: Volkswagen, Chinese ventures to invest 15 billion euros in electric vehicles
- Uber says winning back London licence is recognition of safety commitment – Reuters: – Uber said on Monday that a British judge’s decision to grant it an 18-month operating licence in London, following a successful court appeal, was recognition of its work on safety.
- Analysis: Polestar lifts the lid on lifetime EV emissions – Autocar: It takes 24 tonnes of CO2 equivalents to make a Polestar 2
- Nikola Founder Milton’s Fall Reveals What His Backers Feared – Bloomberg: “His brash visionary talk and Twitter braggadocio, lacked the ability that Elon Musk possesses to deliver these sorts of newfangled products to market.”
- China’s SVOLT to supply cobalt-free EV batteries to Great Wall – Reuters: Chinese electric vehicle (EV) battery maker SVOLT Energy Technology will supply a new, cobalt-free battery
- PSA offers to build more Toyota vans to win EU approval of FCA merger – Autocar: Toyota manufacturers the Proace and Proace Verso at the joint factory alongside PSA equivalents
- Hyundai forms partnership to speed up flying taxi programme – Just-Auto: Hyundai forms partnership to speed up flying taxi programme
- Nissan to return to profit in 2021 thanks to China – Just-Auto: Nissan Motor expects to be profitable in 2021 if its current sales momentum continues, chief executive officer Makoto Uchida told reporters at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition at the weekend.
- Ford applies for German coronavirus state aid: Handelsblatt – Reuters: Ford applies for German coronavirus state aid.
- Hyundai N prototype promises serious e-speed – Autocar: Hyundai has used the Beijing Motor Show to highlight the potential of an electric N car.
- Australia’s Piedmont signs lithium ore supply deal with Tesla, shares surge – Reuters: Australia’s Piedmont signs lithium ore supply deal with Tesla, shares surge
- Tesla’s $25000 Car Doesn’t Worry Its Biggest Rivals in China – Bloomberg: founder and Chief Executive Officer Freeman Shen said. “We are very happy Tesla came to China because Tesla is just like Apple in the early days.”
- Billionaire bond manager Gundlach suggests he could leave California over taxes – Reuters: “Elon Musk, Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro, to name just a few, are leaving California to escape incompetent governance.