Weekly Roundup 52

🚗OEM

1. Charlie Munger Trash Talks Elon Musk On BYD–Tesla Battle (Link)

2. Volkswagen aims to bring under-$35,000 EV to US in 3-4 years-VW executive (Link)

3. Renault Korea to produce Polestar's EVs in 2025 (Link)

4. EV sales are rising. So why are automakers nervous? (Link)

5. Exclusive: Geely's Zeekr edges closer to US IPO, to make filing public this week - sources (Link)

6. Chinese shipbuilder starts work on vehicle carrier for BYD (Link)

7. Alleged Tesla Cybertruck Specs Leak. Here’s How It May Compare To The Competition (Link)

8. Tesla plans to build its $25,000 electric car at Gigafactory Berlin (Link)

9. Saudi Arabia’s PIF raises stakes in Aston Martin to 20.5% (Link)

10. Volvo Cars welcomes Polestar’s strengthened business plan (Link)

11. Volvo inks deal for enormous, Tesla-style giga press (Link)

12. Renault keeps 15% stake in Nissan, transfers majority of shares to French trust (Link)

13. Next Porsche Panamera interior revealed with lots of digital screens (Link)

14. The Fiat Strada, the undisputed market leader in Brazil, arrives in the Middle East and Africa Region (Link)

15. BYD Eyes Hungary for First European BEV Factory (Link)

⚡EV

1. ‘Tesla needs to close the gap with us,’ says BMW about batteries (Link)

2. Lithium-ion aspirations pose environmental dilemmas (Link)

3. Volvo Group acquires Proterra’s battery business for $210m (Link)

4. Polestar 5 – Polestar’s Porsche Taycan rival – REVEALED promising 100 miles of charge in five minutes (Link)

5. Polestar planning to test ‘extreme’ fast charging testing from next year (Link)

6. Polestar and StoreDot to showcase extreme fast charging technology in Polestar 5 prototype (Link)

7. A Lucid Air Can Now Directly Charge Other EVs (Link)

8. RecycLiCo CEO Zarko Meseldzija Talks Battery Recycling, Black Mass, and Urban Mining (Link)

9. Audi begins production of electric motors for the PPE in Győr (Link)

10. Innoson plans to set up an EV manufacturing factory in Nigeria (Link)

11. GM Ventures and Niron Magnetics pursue affordable, sustainable EV motor magnets (Link)

12. India To Slash Import Duty On EVs To 15%, But There’s A Catch (Link)

💾SW Defined Vehicles, Connectivity, Digitalization, Autonomous

1. Lidl owner and Bosch Ventures co-lead $500M Series B into German AI startup Aleph Alpha (Link)

2. Tesla to integrate Elon Musk’s new AI assistant in its vehicles (Link)

3. Record you having sex? Every car is a smart car, and it's a privacy nightmare (Link)

4. Appeals court rules carmakers can store data permanently and share it (Link)

5. Level 3 highly autonomous driving available in the new BMW 7 Series next spring (Link)

6. BMW’s $6,400 Level 3 Automated Driving System Goes Live Next Year In Germany (Link)

7. Will GPS spoofing slow autonomous driving? (Link)

8. SAIC-GM inaugurates Software and Digital Business Organization in Shanghai (Link)

9. Germany approves stakes by Bosch, Infineon and NXP in TSMC chip plant (Link)

🛴Mobility

1. Honda’s new electric scooter and e-bike show it’s serious about electric two-wheelers (Link)

2. Volvo Leads The Way — Electric Trucks For Australia (Link)

3. India to get electric air taxis in 2026 via InterGlobe, Archer venture (Link)

4. Scania and Sennder establish JUNA, a joint venture to drive large-scale electric truck adoption (Link)

5. Gogoro’s Smartscooters can now be unlocked via Apple Wallet (Link)

6. Ford Trucks, Quantron Partner to Study Fuel-Cell Technology (Link)

✨Interesting

1. Mike Elliott Bids Farewell to Mercedes F1 After 11-Year Stint (Link)

2. Rolls-Royce Spectre EV getting a 650-horsepower Black Badge variant? (Link)