Group of electric cars
EVs are currently selling at an average discount of 9.8%
Electric vehicles

'Desperate moves': how the car industry hit ZEV targets

Discounting is now slowing after months of cramming electric cars into the UK market

6 December 2024
'Desperate moves': how the car industry hit ZEV targets
Renault Megane E Tech and Polestar 2 at EV dealer
Electric cars must comprise 22% of any given car maker's sales this year
Car sales

New electric car sales grow despite overall market contraction

“Unsustainable” discounting due to ZEV mandate means electric cars buck market trends

5 December 2024
New electric car sales grow despite overall market contraction
Corporate

New Rolls-Royce CEO: "We have to be a stand-alone business"

Nine months into the job, Chris Brownridge tells us what he’s learned and where the luxury marque is heading

5 December 2024
New Rolls-Royce CEO: "We have to be a stand-alone business"
Fiesta ST Recaro seat
Recaro seats have featured in performance cars such as the Ford Fiesta ST
Corporate

Italian component manufacturer rescues Recaro Automotive

German car seat maker receives indeterminate investment from the Proma Group, enabling production to restart

4 December 2024
Italian component manufacturer rescues Recaro Automotive
Electric vehicles

Vauxhall: government should help affordable EV buyers, not company car users

UK boss says funds from company car tax should be used to provide incentives for cheaper EVs for private buyers

4 December 2024
Vauxhall: government should help affordable EV buyers, not company car users
Electric vehicles

Ford won't limit ICE sales to hit ZEV mandate targets

UK boss Lisa Brankin warns 2025 goals will be "even harder" to hit unless incentives are forthcoming

3 December 2024
Ford won't limit ICE sales to hit ZEV mandate targets
Luca de Meo
De Meo has taken Renault from losing €140m a day in 2020 to the best profits in its history
Corporate

Luca de Meo still has "job to do" at Renault despite Stellantis links

"I'm not looking for anything," de Meo tells Autocar in response to suggestions that he could replace Tavares

3 December 2024
Luca de Meo still has "job to do" at Renault despite Stellantis links
Alex Smith
Alex Smith left the Volkswagen Group at the end of November
Corporate

Outgoing VW UK boss calls for 'complete coherence' in EV policy

Alex Smith, leader of the Volkswagen Group's UK operations between 2019 and 2024, says market needs a boost

3 December 2024
Outgoing VW UK boss calls for 'complete coherence' in EV policy
Finance and corporate

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares resigns: €3bn wiped off group's value

Tavares exits multinational car-making giant as profits slide, more than a year before he was due to retire

2 December 2024
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares resigns: €3bn wiped off group's value
Makoto Uchida Nissan CEO
“A one-million-unit sales increase will be a tough objective,” said Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida
Corporate

Nissan looks to avoid repeat of 1999 crisis after profit collapse

Operating profit dropped 90% in the first half of firm's financial year, edging it toward a financial precipice

2 December 2024
Nissan looks to avoid repeat of 1999 crisis after profit collapse

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