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German automaker making luxury and premium vehicles, part of Mercedes-Benz Group, and a long-time pioneer in automotive safety and technology.
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Volkswagen Financial Services UK set aside £725m for the FCA's car finance redress scheme, turning a £110.3m profit into a £352.9m loss for 2025. The charge rests on rules the lender is contesting in court, so its final size and timing are not yet settled.
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Mercedes-Benz will build Wayve's Level 2 driving software into at least one model due within two years, with the human still driving. The deal gives the startup more reach through carmakers, but its driverless product still has to prove itself in separate robotaxi work.
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Overseas revenue added about $6.9bn while Greater China shed roughly $10.8bn, so the group shrank even as exports grew a third, and Citi's 41.2 billion yuan full-year figure now needs a second half 2.35 times the first.
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The Torcal claims up to 375 miles on WLTP and a 16-minute charge at 400 kilowatts. Bentley is selling it at $218,000 into a market where Lamborghini shelved its electric GT and Rolls-Royce Spectre sales fell by almost half.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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The one humanoid deployment with published duty numbers did a single station's worth of work, while Chinese makers supplied more than four in five installations worldwide in 2025. Both facts shape a pilot decision.
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The 80% workload figure came from a technician rather than from Meta, and the arm that would deliver it still cannot match human speed, which makes this a pilot worth pricing rather than a substitution worth modelling.
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Fewer than 20 Mach-Es at ordinary Uber fares, each with a Transport for London licensed operator aboard, which makes this a strong test of rider demand and dispatch integration and no test at all of driverless cost.
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A direct wind-and-solar deal at one Korean tyre plant buys about 6 GWh a year and 2,700 tonnes of abatement. The cost sits with the supplier, not with the automakers asking for the cuts.
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Robert Lee puts solid-state in phones about ten years before cars. A 12 GWh plant at Dunkirk and Chinese pilot lines due in 2027 are built on the opposite reading.
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Bloomberg says SpaceX approached Cognition. Its CEO says no talks happened. Either way, the pattern is compute traded for developer data, and that reprices any single-vendor coding bet.
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542,000 industrial arms went in during 2024 and 4.66 million are already running. The near-term case for flexible factories runs through smarter conventional robots.
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CNBC's hundreds of test miles put Rivian ahead of GM on highways and behind Tesla's FSD v14 off-highway and point-to-point, which is where subscription pricing has to be justified.
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The Dongfeng brand's new electric SUV pairs an 800V platform and Huawei's ADS 5.0 with a $33,800 entry price, and Stellantis has already agreed a joint venture to sell the brand in Europe.
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