China’s Nio Says 2 Killed When Test Car Crashed From Third Floor

RealVision It’s Time to Talk About Slowing Growth The Federal Reserve’s commitment to cooling inflation remains “unconditional,” said Jerome Powell in a second day of congressional testimony, even as evidence from overseas indicates we’re heading for a slowdown. “Growth down, inflation expectations down, cracks start to appear in commodity momentum,” tweeted Andreas Steno Larsen. S&P… Continue reading China’s Nio Says 2 Killed When Test Car Crashed From Third Floor

German Handelsblatt: Commercial vehicles: Daimler Trucks are sold out – customers pay higher prices004535

Production at Daimler Truck The world’s largest truck manufacturer has been independent of the former parent company Daimler since 2021. (Photo: dpa) If you want to know how the world economy is doing, you can see a lot in the sales figures for trucks. Because little can be saved more easily in an imminent downturn… Continue reading German Handelsblatt: Commercial vehicles: Daimler Trucks are sold out – customers pay higher prices004535

German Handelsblatt: Commercial vehicles: Daimler Trucks are sold out – customers pay higher prices004533

Production at Daimler Truck The world’s largest truck manufacturer has been independent of the former parent company Daimler since 2021. (Photo: dpa) If you want to know how the world economy is doing, you can see a lot in the sales figures for trucks. Because little can be saved more easily in an imminent downturn… Continue reading German Handelsblatt: Commercial vehicles: Daimler Trucks are sold out – customers pay higher prices004533

Tesla relaunches $6,000 Enhanced Autopilot – gutting Full Self-Driving package in the process

Tesla has relaunched its Enhanced Autopilot option and pulled almost all the features from its Full Self-Driving (FSD) package in the process. Over the years, Tesla has changed its Autopilot options and pricing so many times, it has been hard to follow. Finally, the automaker ended up making the Autopilot’s Autosteer and Traffic-Aware Cruise Control standard on… Continue reading Tesla relaunches $6,000 Enhanced Autopilot – gutting Full Self-Driving package in the process

Two killed as car crashes to ground from Nio’s Shanghai office

SHANGHAI — Two people are dead after a test car flew out of Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio’s Shanghai headquarters and plunged several stories to the ground, local media reports said. The bizarre accident, which happened Wednesday evening, reportedly killed both passengers inside the vehicle despite efforts to save them. Nio issued a statement late Thursday… Continue reading Two killed as car crashes to ground from Nio’s Shanghai office

Big Tech Gets Caught Up in Europe’s Energy Politics

(Bloomberg) — When Google wanted to build a new $1.1 billion data center in the Luxembourg countryside, the government championed the investment and helped the company to acquire the land. Authorities in the Netherlands granted Meta Platforms Inc. permission for what promised to be an even bigger one, part of the country’s ambition to become… Continue reading Big Tech Gets Caught Up in Europe’s Energy Politics

German Handelsblatt: Car manufacturer: BMW opens third plant in Shenyang – largest investment in China004529

Fahrzeugproduktion in Shenyang Schon vor der aktuellen Erweiterung war es der volumenstärkste Standort des Konzerns. (Foto: BMW) Inmitten der Diskussion über eine zu große Abhängigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft von China hat BMW am Donnerstag sein drittes Werk in Shenyang eröffnet. Mit mehr als zwei Milliarden Euro ist es die größte Investition der Münchener in dem Land… Continue reading German Handelsblatt: Car manufacturer: BMW opens third plant in Shenyang – largest investment in China004529

German Handelsblatt: Commercial vehicles: Daimler Trucks are sold out – customers pay higher prices004527

Production at Daimler Truck The world’s largest truck manufacturer has been independent of the former parent company Daimler since 2021. (Photo: dpa) If you want to know how the world economy is doing, you can see a lot in the sales figures for trucks. Because little can be saved more easily in an imminent downturn… Continue reading German Handelsblatt: Commercial vehicles: Daimler Trucks are sold out – customers pay higher prices004527

German Handelsblatt: Car manufacturer: BMW opens third plant in Shenyang – largest investment in China004526

Fahrzeugproduktion in Shenyang Schon vor der aktuellen Erweiterung war es der volumenstärkste Standort des Konzerns. (Foto: BMW) Inmitten der Diskussion über eine zu große Abhängigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft von China hat BMW am Donnerstag sein drittes Werk in Shenyang eröffnet. Mit mehr als zwei Milliarden Euro ist es die größte Investition der Münchener in dem Land… Continue reading German Handelsblatt: Car manufacturer: BMW opens third plant in Shenyang – largest investment in China004526

VW CEO Diess warns car plants are at risk from energy supply halt – Automotive News Europe

Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess warned that the shift away from Russian energy isn’t happening fast enough to shield the German automaker from a sudden stop in natural-gas deliveries. VW will keep the ability to run its power plants with coal instead of gas because of Germany’s reliance on Russian imports, Diess said in an… Continue reading VW CEO Diess warns car plants are at risk from energy supply halt – Automotive News Europe