Nick Gibbs

Nick Gibbs
Title: Business correspondent
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Progress report: Which car makers are meeting the ZEV mandate?

Some easily hit or even exceeded the UK government’s 22% EV sales target for 2024, but others fell well short

Progress report: Which car makers are meeting the ZEV mandate?
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Nissan-Honda merger would create new automotive powerhouse

Wide-reaching merger would create a company selling more than seven million cars per year

Nissan-Honda merger would create new automotive powerhouse
VW Golf plugged in
For the first three quarters of 2024, the VW Group was China's most prolific seller of PHEVs
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Ferocious PHEV demand in China poised to boost UK sales too

Plug-in hybrid ‘compliance cars’ are generally too expensive for retail customers, but China is working to change that

Ferocious PHEV demand in China poised to boost UK sales too
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Why the global automotive business model might be dead

Stellantis's struggles to sell the same underpinnings with different shells signpost trouble ahead

Why the global automotive business model might be dead
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Who is McLaren Automotive's new owner CYVN?

This Abu Dhabi investment institution holds the key to unlock McLaren’s long-promised electric SUV

Who is McLaren Automotive's new owner CYVN?
Citroen e c3 front quarter
Strong orders for electric Citroën ë-C3 will help Stellantis to meet its EU CO2 targets
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Why there’s very little fallout from Tavares’s Stellantis exit

Car making giant has bounced back from stock slide and has several crucial new models in the pipeline for 2025

Why there’s very little fallout from Tavares’s Stellantis exit
Group of electric cars
EVs are currently selling at an average discount of 9.8%
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'Desperate moves': how the car industry hit ZEV targets

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

'Desperate moves': how the car industry hit ZEV targets
Makoto Uchida Nissan CEO
“A one-million-unit sales increase will be a tough objective,” said Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida
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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

Nissan looks to avoid repeat of 1999 crisis after profit collapse
Carlos Tavares l with Emmanuel Macron r Paris motor show 2022
Tavares (left) took over as CEO of PSA (Peugeot-Citroën) in 2014
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A STLA career: what legacy will Carlos Tavares leave?

Stellantis chief steps down after a storied career steering the car world's biggest firms

A STLA career: what legacy will Carlos Tavares leave?
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Porsche prepares for sales squeeze as China and EVs disappoint

The brand's profits have tumbled to below a billion euros for the first time in at least 10 quarters

Porsche prepares for sales squeeze as China and EVs disappoint
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Lotus could upgrade the Emeya saloon (pictured) and Eletre SUV with new powertrain
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Lotus embraces EREV hybrids as it axes all-electric plan

Brand had committed to going electric-only in 2028, but luxury car buyers are proving reluctant to switch to EVs

Lotus embraces EREV hybrids as it axes all-electric plan

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