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Stellantis is a multinational automaker formed from the 2021 Fiat Chrysler–PSA Group merger, with brands including Jeep, Peugeot, Chrysler, and Citroën.
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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US-built cars fell to 28.4% of Canadian new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026 from 35.4% a year earlier, JD Power Canada data show. Japanese and Korean builders took more than half of that lost share, and the US levy on Canadian cars and parts is expected to reach 50% in January.
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A Foreign Affairs essay counts about 30 percent of the Draghi recommendations implemented by mid-2026 and argues that even full adoption would leave the gap open, because the barriers are Europe's own labor, tax and regulatory layers.
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Saudi Arabia's newest carmaker has a plant on the kingdom's west coast and a design brief from the Crown Prince, and PIF wants the cluster around it to lift non-oil exports. Its Saudi supplier base is scheduled to arrive by 2034.
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The US transportation secretary's 8 September letter objects to Ford's 66-34 joint venture with Geely in Spain. European lawmakers are drafting a law that would make a capped Chinese stake the price of entry.
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The first autonomous rides in the UK arrive with a licensed driver in every seat and a fare no higher than a normal Uber, and the $8.6 billion valuation is really a bet on the regulatory approval still to come.
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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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Honda lost hundreds of millions and its rivals stood up war rooms because one supplier's chips stopped moving. The same single points of failure sit under any fight between Washington and Ottawa.
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Fifty percent duties on roughly $20bn of Canadian goods began on Aug. 22 and Ottawa answers on Sept. 8, so firms with cross-border bills of materials are now pricing a political constraint instead of a negotiation.
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EU electric vehicle sales rose 40.5% in the first half of 2026. On the published forecasts, Chinese brands are collecting most of that growth in Western Europe.
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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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Chinese carmakers say circuit boards and ceramic capacitors are 20% to 30% short and more than three times last year's price. Geely says that halts assembly rather than just costing more.
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Shares are down more than 55% this year, the EV charge is worth over a third of the five-year model budget, and the CEO's answer to analysts is still that these things take time.
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Amazon booked about $640 million and has offered little back. FedEx is holding roughly $800 million for customers. The split tracks how the duty was billed, not how firms talk about value.
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The FDIC has approved industrial banks run by Ford, GM, Stellantis and Edward Jones. Now the trade group for chartered industrial banks is proposing the bar for everyone behind them.
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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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