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This opinion piece does not necessarily reflect the views of ECG. Tobias Gehrke is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). …

Germany's automakers are growing gloomier about their prospects after a disappointing earnings season marked by waning electric vehicle sales and weakness in China for companies including Volkswagen Group and Mercedes-Benz. …

Germany's electric vehicle sales slumped in July, extending a broad pullback since incentives ended late last year and undermining automakers' plans to shift to selling EVs. …

Intel gave a grim growth forecast and laid out plans to slash 15,000 jobs, signaling that the chipmaker is ill-equipped to compete in the artificial intelligence era. …

Jaguar Land Rover's biggest headwind is an upcoming shortage of aluminium after production at a plant owned by key supplier Novelis was hit by flooding, its finance chief, Richard Molyneux, told investors. …

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) launches new report identifying that he …

Volkswagen will need to make "significant cost-cutting efforts" in the second half of the year and beyond if it is to revive profit margins, the automaker said on Thursday, after reporting first-half margins it described as "too low". …

China was further ahead of Japan in vehicle exports for the first half of 2024 after overtaking its Asian neighbor as the world’s top vehicle exporter in 2023, according to numbers disclosed by industry groups in the two countries. …

Stellantis is facing delays on a key new EV model for Europe because of software bugs, a dampener to efforts to rejuvenate a stale lineup and reverse a slump in profit. …

Demand for purely battery-electric vehicles (BEV) dropped dramatically in Germany during the first half of 2024 and the country’s automotive sector is bracing for a gloomy full year as high prices and leasing rates hamper business.  …