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VOLKSWAGEN OPENS ORDERS FOR LONGER ID. BUZZ CARGOVolkswagen has opened German orders for the longer ID. Buzz Cargo, which increases load volume from 3.9 to 4.4 cubic metres, gains a wider side opening for a Euro pallet and uses an 86 kWh battery, with prices from €50,630 for the 250 kW AWD version and €48,490 for the forthcoming 210 kW RWD model. Quoted ranges are 430–460 km for AWD and 450–490 km for RWD, with 200 kW DC charging, 11 kW AC charging, one-pedal driving and 3.0 kW continuous vehicle-to-load power.ALPINE ADDS COLLECTION PACKAGE TO ELECTRIC A290Alpine has introduced a more restrained Collection styling package for the A290 GT, GT Performance and GTS, adding body-colour wheelarches, a black steering wheel, silver brake calipers, exclusive matte grey-blue or metallic white paint, a gloss-black roof and diamond-cut Snowflake wheels. GT and GT Performance also receive blue-and-white fabric and faux-leather interiors, while GTS retains leather; UK timing and pricing remain unconfirmed, although a small premium over the roughly £30,000 existing range is expected.AUDI A6 E-TRON CLAIMS 831-MILE SINGLE-CHARGE RECORDRally driver Miko Marczyk drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron Performance 1,338 km, or more than 831 miles, on one charge over 45 hours, exceeding a previous claimed Lucid Air record of 749 miles and travelling more than 360 miles beyond the Audi's official 468-mile maximum. The 94.9 kWh car averaged 8.8 miles/kWh on a carefully selected Polish route with favourable terrain and energy-efficient Michelin tyres, making the conditions and exceptionally long journey important context for the claimed record.DACIA HIPSTER PRODUCTION PLANNED FOR 2027 AT EXPECTED £9,500Dacia is reportedly planning 2027 production of the Hipster, potentially giving Britain an electric city car costing around £9,500, although the project has not yet received final production approval. Sources indicate a 15 kWh battery and production at Shiyan in China using some previous-generation Spring components, while Dacia is still deciding between four-seat L7e and two-seat L6 configurations as it seeks a profitable sub-£10,000 starting price.EU WILL NOT VOTE ON TESLA FSD ON 6 OCTOBERTesla's attempt to secure EU-wide approval for Full Self-Driving Supervised will be discussed by the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles on 6 October but will not be put to a vote, making December the earliest scheduled opportunity for a decision. Seven countries have authorised the driver-supervised system, but bloc-wide approval requires support from at least 15 member states representing 65% of the EU population, while concerns including speed-limit compliance remain and Tesla's reported European safety figures have not been independently audited.INDEPENDENT USED-CAR DEALERS GET FREE EV TRAININGIndependent used-car dealers can now access EV Retail Ready, a free online programme created by the BVRLA, Independent Motor Dealers Association and EVA England to improve staff knowledge of charging, running costs, ownership and the EV buying process. The four-module course takes up to two hours, includes access to Clearwatt's vehicle-specific battery, charging and real-world range data, and requires all customer-facing staff to complete the training for dealership accreditation.RENAULT PLANS €600 MILLION SPANISH FACTORY INVESTMENTRenault plans to invest €600 million through 2030 in its Valladolid and Palencia factories in Spain, preparing them for five new models including two medium-sized EVs based on the electric-specific RGEV Medium 2.0 platform. The programme, combining Renault funding with national and regional public support, also includes a battery assembly line at Valladolid and is intended to help secure the future of more than 6,000 direct jobs.US SENATORS DELAY BID FOR PERMANENT CHINESE VEHICLE BANUS senators have delayed a fast-track attempt to make restrictions on Chinese vehicles permanent while discussions continue with Republican Senator Rand Paul, whose objection prevents the unanimous consent needed despite the bill having 51 supporters. The proposal would prevent presidential waivers for Chinese manufacturers and could also affect Mercedes-Benz because Chinese investors own nearly 20% of it, although Senator Bernie Moreno said the company would have until 2030 to comply and could potentially receive waivers.SLOVENIA WILL END ELECTRIC-CAR PURCHASE SUBSIDIESSlovenia's new government will end electric-car purchase subsidies after existing funding was exhausted, shifting its electric-mobility policy towards charging infrastructure instead. Around €2.5 million is available for slower chargers and roughly €25 million is planned next year for charging infrastructure on and beyond the TEN-T network, with future support expected to rely more heavily on national rather than EU funding.ROLLS-ROYCE ELECTRIC SUV PROTOTYPE SHOWS SPLIT BONNET SEAMA photograph of Rolls-Royce's forthcoming electric SUV prototype shows a centre bonnet seam resembling a split-opening mechanism described in a 2024 BMW patent, although neither the mechanism nor the possible storage space beneath it has been confirmed. The standalone electric SUV could enter production next year alongside the V12 Cullinan, but reports of BMW Group EV technology, an 800-volt electrical system, dual motors and all-wheel drive remain expectations rather than confirmed specifications.

In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Philipp Vetter und Holger Zschäpitz über einen verpatzten Börsen-September, Microns Zahlen-Feuerwerk und Googles nächtliche KI-Überraschung. Außerdem geht es um Mercedes-Benz, BMW, SAP, Infineon, Moderna, Fair Isaac, KLA, Applied Materials, Micron, Jabil, Alphabet, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Constellation Energy, Amazon, Accenture, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Monster Beverage, Ingredion, Ajinomoto, Symrise, iShares $ Treasury Bond 20+yr ETF (WKN: A2JKTZ), iShares $ Treasury Bond 20+yr ETF EUR Hedged (WKN: A2DXN8) und iShares Euro Government Bond 15-30yr ETF (WKN: A0LGP5). Am 2. Oktober findet unser „Alles auf Aktien“-Summit in Berlin statt. Mit dem Code „AAAFRIENDS“ sparst du 50 Prozent auf dein Ticket – aber nur unter folgendem Link: https://veranstaltung.businessinsider.de/event/financesummit26/summary?rp=c6dc55d6-6f4f-4fb4-b75f-3f3501d84859 Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und – ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Anzeige: Eight Sleep: Der Pod 5 reguliert die Temperatur im Bett automatisch, trackt Schlaf- und Gesundheitswerte ohne Wearable und kann so zu besserem Schlaf beitragen. Mit dem Code ALLESAUFAKTIEN erhaltet ihr auf https://www.eightsleep.com/allesaufaktien bis zu 350 Euro Rabatt. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

- Oil Prices Drop as Exports Recover - New NHTSA Rules Redefine Trucks and Cars - GM Reaffirms Long-Term EV Commitment - Lithium Prices Plunge in China - Ford Launches Used Commercial Vehicle Program - BMW Moves 3 Series to Germany - Mercedes Exempt from U.S. China Ban - Volkswagen Atlas Gets Significant Redesign

- Oil Prices Drop as Exports Recover - New NHTSA Rules Redefine Trucks and Cars - GM Reaffirms Long-Term EV Commitment - Lithium Prices Plunge in China - Ford Launches Used Commercial Vehicle Program - BMW Moves 3 Series to Germany - Mercedes Exempt from U.S. China Ban - Volkswagen Atlas Gets Significant Redesign

In this episode of Kilowatt, Bodie starts with Europe's first fully driverless robotaxi rides as Verne and Pony.ai put modified Arcfox Alpha T5s on the streets of Zagreb. ProLogium is moving its solid-state battery technology closer to automotive use, with Gen 3.5 cells in mass production and Mercedes-Benz securing priority access to its upcoming Gen 4 cells. Cyclic Materials has opened a new rare-earth recycling facility in Mesa, Arizona, while VinFast has turned its VF Wild pickup concept into an extended-range EV with around 155 miles of battery-only range. On the Tesla side, FSD v14.2 Lite is beginning to reach Hardware 3 Model S and Model X vehicles. Tesla has also built its first Cybercab using cathode active material produced at Giga Texas as the company continues bringing more of its battery manufacturing in-house. Tesla is working with Irish authorities on FSD approval while an EU-wide decision has been pushed back, and Optimus production has reportedly climbed to several hundred robots per week while manufacturing and general-purpose capability remain works in progress. Support the Show Support Kilowatt Other Podcasts Beyond the Post YouTube Beyond the Post Podcast Shuffle Playlist 918Digital Website Friends of the Show Live With It Bodie joined Sarah Lane to talk about the surprisingly complicated technology packed into modern fire trucks. Fire Truck Tech: It's Complicated - Live With It - Podcast Fire Truck Tech: It's Complicated - Live With It - YouTube Publications InsideEVs Electrek Not a Tesla App News Links EV News InsideEVs: Europe's First Truly Driverless Robotaxi Just Started Rides In Croatia Electrek: Mercedes-Benz Gets First Dibs on ProLogium's Gen4 Solid-State EV Battery Cells Electrek: A New Arizona Plant Is Going After the Rare Earth Supply Crunch Electrek: Trucks Gone Wild! VinFast Launches VF Wild EREV Pickup Tesla News Not a Tesla App: Tesla Starts Rolling Out FSD v14.2 Lite to HW3 Model S and Model X Not a Tesla App: Tesla Builds First Cybercab Using In-House Battery Materials Not a Tesla App: Tesla in Talks for FSD Approval in Ireland as EU Delays Vote Electrek: Tesla Ramps Optimus to Hundreds a Week, but the Robots Can't Generalize Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

AI agents only work on a unified data foundation. Leapsome co-CEO Jenny von Podewils spent 10 years building one: 5 bootstrapped years in Berlin, a $60M Series A, a ground-up HRIS rebuild in 2024 — and since July 2026, 5 EU-hosted AI agents running core HR programs for 2,000+ organizations, including Notion, Spotify, and Mercedes-Benz. The deep tech angle: an agentic workflow builder that turns a natural-language process description into an executable workflow, Model Context Protocol connectivity, EU AI Act compliance and EU hosting as engineering constraints turned competitive edge, and human sign-off wherever judgment matters. This episode is sponsored by Leapsome. The numbers, from Leapsome's 2027 Workforce Trends Report (100 high-growth tech companies, public data only): median 1 HR professional per 53 employees; ElevenLabs 1 per 299; OpenAI 1 per 243 — the Density Gap. 81% of high-growth companies already put AI into People functions, yet most miss the expected productivity gains. And only 30% of AI labs' own People-team job postings mention AI skills. Chapters: 03:52 Five bootstrapped years 12:44 The 2024 HRIS rebuild 17:04 AI agents in production 30:48 The Density Gap: 1:53 vs 1:299 41:34 Where productivity gains die 56:00 The 2028 forecast Full blog post and sources: https://www.startuprad.io/post/leapsome-from-bootstrapped-hr-tool-to-agentic-hr-platform Partner with Startuprad.io — sponsored episodes and growth partnerships: https://www.startuprad.io/become-a-partner Host: Jörn "Joe" Menninger — https://www.linkedin.com/in/joernmenninger/ AI Index: https://startuprad.io/llm Disclosure: This episode is sponsored content — a paid partnership with Leapsome. This episode was produced with the assistance of AI. Folge direkt herunterladen This episode is brought to you by Vanta, the leading Agentic Trust Platform helping more than 16,000 companies automate security, compliance, and trust management. Learn more: https://vanta.com/startupradio --- © Startuprad.io™ – All Rights Reserved | AI & research reference → https://www.startuprad.io/llm

Give us about fifteen minutes a day, and we will give you all the local news, sports, weather, and events you can handle. SPONSORS: Many thanks to our sponsors… Annapolis Subaru, the SPCA of Anne Arundel County, MacMedics, Covington Alsina, and  Hospice of the Chesapeake.  Eastport residents protest the changing face of Mercedes-Benz of Annapolis, although the bigger questions may be aimed at City Hall; fourth-quarter turnovers sink Navy against UAB; Historic Annapolis raises an impressive $210,000 at Blazers, Bourbon & Cigars; and a major living shoreline project is now complete at Hillsmere Shores Marina. It's all ahead on the Eye On Annapolis Daily News Brief. DAILY NEWS EMAIL LINK: https://forms.aweber.com/form/87/493412887.htm Ann Covington from CovingtonAlsina is also here with her Monday Money Report! The Eye On Annapolis Daily News Brief is produced every Monday through Friday at 6:00 am and available wherever you get your podcasts and also on our social media platforms--All Annapolis and Eye On Annapolis (FB) and @eyeonannapolis (X) NOTE: For hearing-impaired subscribers, a full transcript is available on Eye On Annapolis.

Guest: Chandra Lynn, Best Selling AuthorEps. #138: Root to Rise: How to Love LifeShow: Inspired Conversations with Kim EvansHost: Kim Evans, MAStreaming now on all major platforms.https:www.kimMevans.com/podcastIn this episode of Inspired Conversations with Kim Evans.Kim sits down with transformation coach, speaker, and Amazon bestselling author Chandra Lynn for a powerful conversation inspired by her book, Root-to-Rise: How to Love Life.Chandra shares the wisdom behind her Root-to-Rise framework, what transformation truly requires, and how we can reconnect with ourselves and create a life we genuinely love.Chandra Lynn Bio:Chandra Lynn is a certified transformation coach, speaker, and Amazon bestselling author of Root-to-Rise: How to Love Life. She holds an MBA in Marketing and brings more than 20 years of experience advising major brands, including Apple and Mercedes-Benz.  She is the creator of the Root-to-Rise framework and founder of Glow Living, where she helps people reconnect with themselves, create meaningful transformation, and build lives they genuinely love.Links & Special Offers:ChandraLynn.comSigned copy of Root-to-Rise: How to Love Life — 25% off with code RISE25glowliving.etsy.comLife Lounge — 3 Months Free:https://bit.ly/4ah7lVI-------------------------------------------MORE ABOUT KIM EVANS Host of Inspired ConversationsListed under KME Coaching on all Streams.More About Host- Kim Evans, MAOwner 2GORJIS Facial Spa, KME Coaching and The Kim Evans Business & Wellness Accelerator for Womenpreneurswww.kimgems.com Ready to scale their business online.ABOUT Websites:https://www.kimMevans.comhttps://www.2gorjisbeauty.comBUSINESS COACHINGhttps://www.kimgems.comJoin our Business Accelerator:Our Private Business Coaching & Mentorship Program

This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss their Texas Field Work where they rode in Cybercab, Waymo, Avride, May Mobility robotaxis, Kodiak and Aurora autonomous trucks, and inspected depots across Austin and Dallas.Grayson's verdict on Tesla's Cybercab is simple. Once you go Cybercab, you don't go back. In Austin, wait times averaged two to five minutes across dozens of rides, and from a software perspective Grayson found no material difference between Cybercab and the Model Y Robotaxi in terms of performance.In Austin, Grayson counted roighly 200 to 300 vehicles at Avride's upfitting facility, a presence he believes the market is overlooking, and views Hyundai as a quiet winner of the robotaxi buildout with the IONIQ 5 powering Waymo, Avride and Motional. The Zoox depot in Dallas was under construction with no visible charging infrastructure, and Grayson estimates it is 12 to 18 months from being operational.Both Walt and Grayson rode in a Kodiak autonomous truck and Walt noted clear improvement ahead of Kodiak's driver-out target on the Dallas to Houston lane by year-end. Additionally, Walt rode in an unsupervised Aurora autonomous truck at their Investor Day.On the Foreign Autonomy Desk, Baidu is ramping supervised robotaxi testing in London with Lyft, Mercedes-Benz signed a licensing deal with Wayve, and Tensor Auto is preparing to deploy robotaxis with Volt Premium Taxi in Bulgaria.Episode Chapters0:00 Once You Go Cybercab, You Don't Go Back03:56 Robotaxi in Dallas09:01 Cybercab Wait Times, Pickups and Routing in Austin12:10 Austin Robotaxi Depots13:45 Avride's Austin Depot16:02 Zoox's Dallas Depot17:22 May Mobility in Arlington20:17 Kodiak Targets Driver-Out on Dallas to Houston by Year-End24:19 Avride in Dallas and the Uber Partner Math26:46 Hyundai Is the Quiet Winner in Robotaxis27:30 Walt Amends His View on Upfitting30:57 Tesla's Vertical Integration and Supercharger Advantage33:06 Aurora Investor Day and the 1,000 Truck Target40:22 President Xi's Visit and a Wake-Up Call for Detroit47:01 Foreign Autonomy Desk49:33 Next Week

Every successful company begins with an insight, but turning that insight into a scalable business requires more than a great idea. In this episode of Insight Out with Billy Samoa, Billy sits down with Dr. Alexa D'Agostino, founder and CEO of Thynkfuel, serial entrepreneur, and the “Doctor of Marketing,” to explore the defining moments, lessons, and systems that shaped her approach to building and scaling companies. Alexa shares how growing up around entrepreneurial problem-solving conversations, becoming a software developer, and building companies from a young age shaped the way she thinks about marketing, leadership, and growth. She explains why many businesses are not actually growth-ready, but are simply surviving through chaos, and why founders need systems that allow their companies to operate without depending on them. The conversation dives into Alexa's Marketing by Modification™ philosophy, why the best marketers follow data instead of assumptions, and how founders can identify hidden problems with their offers, customer targeting, and sales processes. This episode is packed with practical insights for entrepreneurs who want to move from reactive growth to building a company designed to scale. In this episode: 00:00:30 - The defining moments that shape an entrepreneur Alexa shares why founders should look back at the experiences that shaped their thinking, values, and approach to business. 00:03:57 - The dinner table lessons that created a problem-solving mindset Alexa explains how conversations with her entrepreneurial mother and IBM executive father taught her to ask better questions and identify what needs to be solved. 00:07:33 - Learning leadership from the soccer field Alexa shares a defining leadership moment from her soccer career and how watching others lead shaped her understanding of resilience and accountability. 00:11:42 - From software developer to the Doctor of Marketing Alexa explains how her technology background gave her a unique perspective on marketing, data, and performance-driven growth. 00:16:40 - The billion-dollar idea that taught a valuable lesson Alexa discusses one of her earliest ventures, the mistake of selling 100% of a company, and why founders should think carefully about ownership. 00:19:14 - Chaos-ready vs. growth-ready companies Alexa breaks down the difference between businesses held together by founder effort and businesses built with systems that can scale. 00:27:23 - The questions that reveal what is actually broken Alexa shares the diagnostic questions she uses with companies, including understanding customers, tracking conversions, and identifying operational gaps. 00:33:38 - The three biggest growth problems companies overlook Alexa explains why many companies struggle because of unclear offers, outdated customer profiles, and broken marketing-to-sales handoffs. 00:38:44 - How founders can self-audit their own business Alexa gives practical ways entrepreneurs can identify whether they have an offer problem, audience problem, or sales process problem. 00:45:03 - Marketing by Modification: Building growth through iteration Alexa explains her framework for launching, measuring, optimizing, and scaling marketing campaigns based on data instead of assumptions. Key takeaways: The defining moments in your life often become the framework behind how you lead, build, and make decisions. Great entrepreneurs are willing to ask questions and challenge assumptions. A company that survives chaos is not necessarily a company built to scale. Growth-ready businesses have systems, data, and teams that operate without constant founder involvement. Many companies do not have marketing problems. They have offer, positioning, or customer clarity problems. The best customers reveal the true market through their buying behavior, not just demographics. Founders should diagnose problems through data instead of relying only on instinct. Marketing is not a one-time launch. It is a continuous process of testing, learning, modifying, and scaling. The first version of a campaign is rarely the best version. Improvement comes through iteration. Scaling happens after finding what works, not before. About Dr. Alexa D'Agostino: Dr. Alexa D'Agostino, known as “The Doctor of Marketing,” is a serial 8-figure entrepreneur, investor, celebrity marketer, and award-winning business strategist. She is the Founder and CEO of Thynkfuel, a marketing, technology, and AI agency that helps companies launch, scale, and prepare for successful exits. Through her Marketing by Modification™ framework, Alexa combines data, technology, branding, automation, and execution to help companies build scalable growth systems. She has helped scale hundreds of companies, driven billions in revenue, and worked with brands including Skype, American Express, Mercedes-Benz, Hard Rock Hotels, and more. Connect with Dr. Alexa D'Agostino: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexadagostino/ Website: https://www.alexadagostino.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dralexadagostino/?hl=en About Insight Out with Billy Samoa: Insight Out: Big Ideas for the Modern Entrepreneur explores the ideas, strategies, and turning points behind successful founders, business leaders, and entrepreneurs. Through conversations with elite operators and innovators, Billy Samoa uncovers the insights that drive growth and how those ideas become systems, strategies, and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Autonomy Signals presented by KPMG, Grayson Brulte and Rob Grant discuss May Mobility filing to go public through a SPAC merger with an estimated $93 million annual cash burn, Mercedes-Benz adding Wayve as its third automated driving software partner, and Figure AI's Helix 2.5 taking on household chores across 30 homes it had never seen before.May Mobility is merging with ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp at a $1.4 billion valuation and will trade under the ticker MAY upon completion of the transaction. Of the up to $337 million in proceeds, only the $120 million PIPE is committed.At the company's current burn rate, the PIPE covers about 1.3 years of operations against roughly $10 million in 2025 revenue. The remaining $217 million depends on the redemption rate.Mercedes-Benz signed with Wayve for point-to-point Level 2 driving assistance within two years. Wayve joins NVIDIA and Momenta as Mercedes retreats from L3 Drive Pilot and focuses on L2 driving assistance partnerships.Figure AI's Helix 2.5 raised zero-shot success from 9% to 56% by pre-training on human behavior data, using half the task-specific data. That still leaves a 44% failure rate in curated homes, with no independent replication and no commercial contracts. The result supports a learning strategy, not a dependable, unsupervised home humanoid.Episode Chapters0:00 KPMG Sponsor Introduction01:45 Signal 1: May Mobility's SPAC27:52 Signal 2: Mercedes Partners Wayve on Autonomous Driving47:07 Signal 3: Figure AI Introduces Helix 2.5Follow May Mobility on the Robotaxi IndexFollow Wayve on the Autonomous Driving Licensing Index --------About The Road to AutonomyThe Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™.Through our podcasts, newsletter, and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth.Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next.Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The cheapest customer-experience strategy in your company is already on the payroll—and mostly ignored. Joseph Michelli unpacks Medallia/McKinsey research showing nearly 60% of frontline employees feel their CX ideas go unheard, even where leaders call experience a priority. Drawing on his own Mercedes-Benz buying-experience work, he explains why the people closest to customers see what dashboards and AI can't—and three moves to surface that frontline wisdom before your competitors do.

- Honda Spending Billions on New U.S. Hybrid Plant - Mercedes Could Increase Hours But Not Pay - U.S. Lawmakers Ramp Up Efforts to Ban Chinese - Chinese Automakers Could Grab Quick U.S. Foothold - Chinese Suppliers a Growing Threat - GM Giving Away Free EV Chargers - Geely Joins Ultra-Fast Charging Race - NIO Opens Off-Grid Swapping Station - Bentley's 1st Pure EV - Renault Brings Past Icon Into Electric Era

- Honda Spending Billions on New U.S. Hybrid Plant - Mercedes Could Increase Hours But Not Pay - U.S. Lawmakers Ramp Up Efforts to Ban Chinese - Chinese Automakers Could Grab Quick U.S. Foothold - Chinese Suppliers a Growing Threat - GM Giving Away Free EV Chargers - Geely Joins Ultra-Fast Charging Race - NIO Opens Off-Grid Swapping Station - Bentley's 1st Pure EV - Renault Brings Past Icon Into Electric Era

Autobouwers hadden het eigenlijk al een beetje opgegeven met de elektrische auto. Maar door de hoge olieprijs schaffen Europeanen hem ineens tóch aan. Vorige maand stegen de verkopen in Duitsland met 75 procent, in Frankrijk zelfs met 100 procent. Deze aflevering hebben we het over die cijfers. Je hoort wat er achter zit, of die groei verder doorzet en of dit dan de redding is van de Duitse auto aandelen. Hebben we het ook over het grootste pensioenfonds van Nederland. Dat gaat nu meer beleggen buiten de beurs. Ze gaan namelijk meer investeren in startups en scale-ups. Gaat dat ten kosten van aandelen? We zoeken het uit. Ook hoor je meer over het staatsbezoek van Xi Jinping aan de Verenigde Staten. Nog voor de twee elkaar echt spraken, regelde Scott Bessent een verlenging van de wapenstilstand. Te gast: Hans Oudshoorn van Saxo BNR Beurs is een journalistiek onafhankelijke productie, mede mogelijk gemaakt door Saxo. Over de makers: Jelle Maasbach is presentator van BNR Beurs en freelance financieel journalist. Zijn favoriete aandeel om over te praten is Disney, maar daar lijkt hij de enige in te zijn. Sinds de eerste uitzending van BNR Beurs is 'ie er bij. Maxim van Mil is presentator van BNR Beurs en journalist bij BNR, waar hij zich focust op de financiële markten en ontwikkelingen in de tech-wereld. Je krijgt hem het meest enthousiast als hij kan praten over ASML, of oer-Hollandse bedrijven zoals Ahold of ABN Amro. Jorik Simonides is presentator van BNR Beurs, economieredacteur en verslaggever bij BNR. Hij wordt er vooral blij van als het een keer níet over AI gaat. Je hoort hem ook in de BNR-podcast Moerdijk: dorp van de rekening. Milou Brand is presentator van BNR Beurs, freelance podcastmaker en columnist bij het Financieele Dagblad. Jochem Visser is presentator van BNR Beurs, maakt Beursnerd XL en is redacteur bij de podcast Onder Curatoren. Vraag hem naar obscure zaken op financiële markten en hij vertelt je waarom het eigenlijk nóg leuker is dan je al dacht. Donner Bakker is presentator van BNR Beurs en economieredacteur bij BNR. Hij volgt macro-economische ontwikkelingen met bovengemiddelde interesse, net als de beursgenoteerde datingapps. Je hoort hem ook in de BNR-podcast All In The Game. Over de podcast: Met BNR Beurs ga je altijd voorbereid de nieuwe beursdag in. We praten je in een kleine 25 minuten bij over alle laatste ontwikkelingen op de handelsvloer. We blijven niet alleen bij de AEX of Wall Street, maar vertellen je ook waar nog meer kansen liggen. En we houden het niet bij de cijfers, maar zoeken ook iedere dag voor je naar duiding van scherpe gasten en experts. Of je nu een ervaren belegger bent of net begint met je eerste stappen op de beurs, de podcast biedt waardevolle inzichten voor je beleggingsstrategie. Door de focus op zowel de korte termijn als de lange termijn, helpt BNR Beurs luisteraars om de ruis van de markt te scheiden van de essentie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Autobouwers hadden het eigenlijk al een beetje opgegeven met de elektrische auto. Maar door de hoge olieprijs schaffen Europeanen hem ineens tóch aan. Vorige maand stegen de verkopen in Duitsland met 75 procent, in Frankrijk zelfs met 100 procent. Deze aflevering hebben we het over die cijfers. Je hoort wat er achter zit, of die groei verder doorzet en of dit dan de redding is van de Duitse auto aandelen. Hebben we het ook over het grootste pensioenfonds van Nederland. Dat gaat nu meer beleggen buiten de beurs. Ze gaan namelijk meer investeren in startups en scale-ups. Gaat dat ten kosten van aandelen? We zoeken het uit. Ook hoor je meer over het staatsbezoek van Xi Jinping aan de Verenigde Staten. Nog voor de twee elkaar echt spraken, regelde Scott Bessent een verlenging van de wapenstilstand. Te gast: Hans Oudshoorn van Saxo BNR Beurs is een journalistiek onafhankelijke productie, mede mogelijk gemaakt door Saxo. Over de makers: Jelle Maasbach is presentator van BNR Beurs en freelance financieel journalist. Zijn favoriete aandeel om over te praten is Disney, maar daar lijkt hij de enige in te zijn. Sinds de eerste uitzending van BNR Beurs is 'ie er bij. Maxim van Mil is presentator van BNR Beurs en journalist bij BNR, waar hij zich focust op de financiële markten en ontwikkelingen in de tech-wereld. Je krijgt hem het meest enthousiast als hij kan praten over ASML, of oer-Hollandse bedrijven zoals Ahold of ABN Amro. Jorik Simonides is presentator van BNR Beurs, economieredacteur en verslaggever bij BNR. Hij wordt er vooral blij van als het een keer níet over AI gaat. Je hoort hem ook in de BNR-podcast Moerdijk: dorp van de rekening. Milou Brand is presentator van BNR Beurs, freelance podcastmaker en columnist bij het Financieele Dagblad. Jochem Visser is presentator van BNR Beurs, maakt Beursnerd XL en is redacteur bij de podcast Onder Curatoren. Vraag hem naar obscure zaken op financiële markten en hij vertelt je waarom het eigenlijk nóg leuker is dan je al dacht. Donner Bakker is presentator van BNR Beurs en economieredacteur bij BNR. Hij volgt macro-economische ontwikkelingen met bovengemiddelde interesse, net als de beursgenoteerde datingapps. Je hoort hem ook in de BNR-podcast All In The Game. Over de podcast: Met BNR Beurs ga je altijd voorbereid de nieuwe beursdag in. We praten je in een kleine 25 minuten bij over alle laatste ontwikkelingen op de handelsvloer. We blijven niet alleen bij de AEX of Wall Street, maar vertellen je ook waar nog meer kansen liggen. En we houden het niet bij de cijfers, maar zoeken ook iedere dag voor je naar duiding van scherpe gasten en experts. Of je nu een ervaren belegger bent of net begint met je eerste stappen op de beurs, de podcast biedt waardevolle inzichten voor je beleggingsstrategie. Door de focus op zowel de korte termijn als de lange termijn, helpt BNR Beurs luisteraars om de ruis van de markt te scheiden van de essentie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

- Mercedes Could Close 2 German Plants - Hyundai Supplying Vans to Chevy and GMC - GM Teases New 'Mongoose' Diesel V8 - EVs Drive Sales Growth in Europe - CATL Developing Batteries for U.S. Trucks - CATL Starts Trial Production in Hungary - Used Cars Getting Older with More Miles - Startup Reveals Wedgy Production EVs

- Mercedes Could Close 2 German Plants - Hyundai Supplying Vans to Chevy and GMC - GM Teases New 'Mongoose' Diesel V8 - EVs Drive Sales Growth in Europe - CATL Developing Batteries for U.S. Trucks - CATL Starts Trial Production in Hungary - Used Cars Getting Older with More Miles - Startup Reveals Wedgy Production EVs

Heiko Thieme bleibt trotz Ölpreisschock, Zinswende, KI-Nervosität und Gewinnwarnungen optimistisch: Der September-Rücksetzer von rund 5 % sei eine Delle, kein Einbruch. Einen Crash in den nächsten acht Wochen erwartet er nicht. Entscheidend seien Gewinne und Liquidität - und genau deshalb hält Thieme an einem positiven Börsenjahr und seinem DAX-Ziel von 27.200 Punkten fest. Seine Strategie bleibt strikt antizyklisch: kaufen, was andere meiden, maximal 30 Positionen und möglichst in drei Tranchen einsteigen. Nach kräftigen Rücksetzern sieht er Chancen bei Halbleitern und nennt Netflix nach rund 40 % Kursverlust ausdrücklich interessant. Im angeschlagenen Autosektor favorisiert er Mercedes-Benz vor VW und BMW; für Mercedes sieht er auf Sicht von neun bis 15 Monaten deutliches Erholungspotenzial. Bitcoin hält Thieme fundamental weiterhin für "wertlos", akzeptiert aber bis zu 3 % Depotanteil als spekulative Beimischung. Gold bleibt für ihn mit 3 bis 5 % eher "Beruhigungspille" als Renditetreiber. Sein roter Faden: nicht jedem Trend hinterherlaufen, Verluste aushalten, Gewinne systematisch absichern - und Geduld haben, wenn die Substanz stimmt. IPOs meidet er zunächst. Werden Sie Clubmitglied, hier geht es zum Beitrag: https://www.heiko-thieme.club/2026/09/22/drei-tranchen-gegen-boersenangst-thiemes-herbst-rezept-gold-beruhigt-bitcoin-reizt-thieme-setzt-auf-disziplin/

**China just laid out its automotive roadmap through 2030—and electrification is only the beginning.**In Episode #262 of **China EVs & More**, Tu Le and Lei Xing unpack China's new Five-Year Plan for intelligent connected NEVs, including a **70% passenger-vehicle NEV target**, stronger global ambitions for Chinese automakers and a push to influence international automotive technology and standards.But China's domestic auto market is also shrinking. NEVs reached **65.7% of domestic sales**, while the overall market has lost 2.54 million vehicles through August—putting even more pressure on BYD, Tesla and the foreign legacy automakers.We also discuss:-

"Pearl”, das Soloalbum von Janis Joplin, hat einen traurigen Beigeschmack, es ist ihr erfolgreichstes Album geworden. Sie selbst hat das aber nie erfahren können. Gestorben ist Janis Joplin Ende 1970 an einer Überdosis Heroin, nur wenige Stunden nachdem sie noch im Tonstudio gestanden hat. Mit ihrem frühen Tod gehört Janis Joplin auch zum traurigen "Club 27", in dem viele Rock- und Popstars durch ihr frühes Ableben sind. Neben Janis Joplin gehören zum Beispiel auch Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison oder auch Brian Jones in den "Club 27". Aufgenommen hatte Janis Joplin das Album mit "ihrer" neuen Band, der Full Tilt Boogie Band, die sich für sie auch nach der Band angefühlt hat, die fest zu ihr dazugehören sollte. Vorher hatte Janis Joplin schon mit anderen Bands zusammengespielt, aber die Full Tilt Boogie Band war auf dem Weg, ihre feste Band zu werden. Und dass das Zusammenspiel zwischen Janis Joplin und der Band gut funktioniert, das hört man auch, findet Musikredakteur Benjamin Brendebach. Die Songs, die Janis Joplin auf ihrem Album "Pearl" singt, hat sie größtenteils nicht selbst geschrieben – genauer gesagt ist nur der Song "Move Over" von ihr geschrieben worden. Aber dennoch macht sie mit ihrer Art zu singen die Songs zu ihren eigenen, findet auch Musikredakteurin Katharina Heinius: "Sie macht jeden Song zu ihrem eigenen Song!" Die Songwriter, mit denen sie für "Pearl" zusammengearbeitet hat, waren überzeugt von Janis Joplin, erklärt Katharina Heinius. Das ist alleine schon daran zu erkennen, dass sie ihr die Songs überhaupt angeboten haben. Insgesamt sind zehn Songs auf dem Album von Janis Joplin, darunter auch einige ihrer größten Hits. Es gibt Blues-Momente, Folk-Momente und noch ganz viel mehr. Aber eine Frage bleibt: Es gibt keinen Song auf dem Album mit dem Titel "Pearl". Warum also trägt das Album diesen Titel – das erfahrt ihr im Podcast! __________ Über diese Songs vom Album "Pearl" sprechen wir im Podcast • (04:01) – "Move Over" • (08:33) – "Can't Turn You Loose" • (11:43) – "Cry Baby" • (17:19) – "A Woman Left Lonely" • (24:18) – "Me And Bobby McGee" • (31:46) – "Buried Alive In The Blues" • (34:56) – "Mercedes Benz" __________ Shownotes: • Die Manson-Morde (Tate-Morde): https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/koepfe/Charles-Manson-Die-Tate-Morde-machten-ihn-zur-duesteren-Ikone,manson136.html • Informationen zum Kent State Massaker: https://www.kent.edu/may-4-historical-accuracy • Podcastfolge von "Der Stichtag – Die Chronik der ARD" zum Altamont Free Concert: https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:f8c7154bf271dd3c/ • Dokumentation: "The Day the Rock Star Died – Janis Joplin": https://www.zdf.de/portraits/the-day-the-rock-star-died-100#focus=the-day-the-rock-star-died-janis-joplin-100 • Die Meilensteine Live in Sinsheim am 24.9. – Hier könnt ihr euch anmelden: https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/events/regiotour-bw-meilensteine-2026-100.html

Comenzamos con una reflexión profunda del histórico Benjamin Franklin: “Cualquiera que sacrifique un poco de libertad por un poco de seguridad, no merece ni la una ni la otra”. Esta frase resume a la perfección el gran debate central de nuestro vídeo. Las ayudas electrónicas a la conducción salvan miles de vidas, eso es un hecho estadístico indiscutible, pero nos obligan a plantearnos preguntas ciertamente incómodas. ¿Dónde comienza esa necesaria seguridad vial y dónde acaba nuestra preciada libertad individual como conductores? En este análisis no buscamos la polémica gratuita, pero desde luego tampoco la rehuimos. ¿Te has dado cuenta de que tu coche ya no te obedece ciegamente como antes? Te avisa con pitidos constantes, da volantazos bruscos para corregir tu trayectoria y, en ocasiones, sencillamente no te deja acelerar. Nos referimos a los conocidos sistemas ADAS, esa electrónica que muchos tildan de invasiva y que supone el comienzo de la seguridad máxima, pero quizás también el fin de nuestra más pura libertad. Nadie en su sano juicio niega que reducen la mortalidad, pero es vital cuestionarnos si no existen otros caminos para lograr esa máxima protección. Para entender esto, abordamos varias cuestiones clave. Primero, ¿nos dan coches peores aprovechando que tenemos estas ayudas? La respuesta es un rotundo sí. Segundo, ¿somos más imprudentes al confiar en la tecnología? Absolutamente. Lo demostró el "Experimento de Múnich" de Mercedes con una flota de taxis. Aquellos que llevaban los novedosos frenos ABS tuvieron paradójicamente más accidentes que los que no lo equipaban. Este fenómeno, conocido como el "Efecto Peltzman", demuestra que el exceso de confianza nos vuelve temerarios. Tercera pregunta: ¿el encarecimiento de los vehículos envejece el parque automovilístico? Por supuesto que sí. La inclusión obligatoria de la batería de sistemas ADAS, incluido el Asistente Inteligente de Velocidad (ISA), supone un sobrecoste que oscila entre los 3.000 y los 6.000 euros. El efecto perverso de esta medida legislativa es que los consumidores ya no pueden permitirse adquirir coches nuevos. Conducir siempre ha sido sinónimo de libertad absoluta. Si cometías un error, las consecuencias eran únicamente tuyas, pero si trazabas la curva perfecta, la inmensa satisfacción también te pertenecía. Hoy, fríos algoritmos matemáticos e ingenieros de software viajan sentados en el asiento de nuestro copiloto. Cada vez que nuestro comportamiento al volante les parece inapropiado dentro de su aséptico código, nos regañan o nos cortan la inyección. Para comprender esta hipervigilancia, repasamos la historia completa de estas tecnologías. Viajamos en el tiempo hasta 1920 con el ingeniero francés Gabriel Voisin, quien gestó el primer concepto antibloqueo para evitar accidentes en la naciente industria de la aviación. Pasamos por el pesado sistema mecánico Maxaret de Dunlop en 1952, y el pionero coche británico Jensen en 1966. Hasta llegar a 1978, cuando la revolución de Bosch y Mercedes-Benz introdujo el primer ABS electrónico verdaderamente fiable en el lujosísimo Clase S. Este fue nuestro primer baño de humildad, el momento en el que cedimos el control a la máquina. Pero el verdadero punto de inflexión llegó en la década de los noventa. En el invierno de 1989, el ingeniero Frank-Werner Mohn sufrió un accidente sobre hielo en Suecia, lo que le dio la idea revolucionaria de crear el Control Electrónico de Estabilidad (ESP). Años después, en 1997, el famoso y rocambolesco vuelco del Mercedes Clase A durante la violenta "prueba del alce" obligó a la marca a instalar este complejo sistema de serie. Aquel desastre mediático democratizó la seguridad, pero también nos trajo la frustración de la intervención electrónica constante. Entramos así en la era actual de radares y sensores impuesta por la legislación europea. Esta sobreprotección electrónica está atrofiando irremediablemente nuestra técnica de conducción. Al dejar que el coche frene y lea las señales por nosotros, nuestro cerebro se desconecta. Perdemos concentración y olvidamos cómo reaccionar. El ejemplo supremo es el sistema ISA obligatorio desde julio de 2024, que asume por defecto que somos temerarios y nos reprende cortando la potencia del motor, obligándonos a realizar el tedioso ritual de apagarlo cada vez que arrancamos. Debemos ser maduros y reconocer que, estadísticamente, estos sistemas son un milagro. Sin embargo, como conductores, tenemos el ineludible deber moral de mantener vivo nuestro espíritu crítico. Hay que exigir que la tecnología nos aporte seguridad sin arrebatarnos la responsabilidad, la esencia humana y el irrepetible placer de conducir hacia un horizonte que, de seguir así, acabará convirtiendo los coches en asépticos ascensores horizontales sin alma.

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- Car Loans and Lease Rates Going Up - AM Radio Mandate Has Strong Support - Volvo Wants to Double Market Share - Toyota Asks Dealers to Lobby Against Tariffs - Europe Tries to Limit Chinese Hybrid Imports - EU Wants "Made in Europe" Rules - Mercedes Updates Vehicle Software on Production Line - Wave of Old Batteries Hitting China - Porsche Gets Raw Materials from Old Batteries - More Automaker Consolidation in China

- Car Loans and Lease Rates Going Up - AM Radio Mandate Has Strong Support - Volvo Wants to Double Market Share - Toyota Asks Dealers to Lobby Against Tariffs - Europe Tries to Limit Chinese Hybrid Imports - EU Wants "Made in Europe" Rules - Mercedes Updates Vehicle Software on Production Line - Wave of Old Batteries Hitting China - Porsche Gets Raw Materials from Old Batteries - More Automaker Consolidation in China

What if the future of executive leadership is less about specialisation and more about range?For years, senior leaders have been encouraged to go deeper into a single function.But in this episode of the HR Leaders Podcast, I sit down with Joshua Horenstein, Senior Vice President, Administrative Office & Corporate Secretary at Innophos, to explore a different model: the dual executive.Joshua started his career as a lawyer before moving into a broader cross-functional leadership role spanning legal, HR, facilities, regulatory and other operational responsibilities. He argues that this breadth has made him a stronger executive because it forces leaders to understand the business beyond their original area of expertise.And as AI makes specialist knowledge easier to access, that ability to operate across functions may become even more valuable.5 things you'll learn from this episode:Why Joshua believes the traditional single-function executive model may be starting to break down, and what could replace itThe career move that took Joshua from law into HR and broader business leadership, and what it taught him about stepping outside your expertiseWhy AI could make it easier for executives to lead functions they were never formally trained in, and what still cannot be outsourced to technologyThe three leadership qualities Joshua believes will become far more important as AI changes how executives workHow taking responsibility for multiple functions can actually strengthen succession planning rather than create a leadership risk

The CHRO's real test isn't getting a seat at the table, it's whether the CEO would make the decision without them.In this special episode, Lewis Brown, Jr. - MA and Josh Klein of From Here Collective join Rich Jennings, Executive Advisor to Comcast, to explore what it means for the CHRO to become the CEO's trusted consigliere.Using The Godfather as an intentionally provocative analogy, they unpack the skills, behaviours and experiences that make an HR leader genuinely valuable at the highest level. From business fluency and fearlessness to asking better questions, building trust across the organisation and knowing how to influence decisions without needing to dominate the room, the conversation challenges the traditional boundaries of the CHRO role.For HR leaders, the biggest question is not whether you have a seat at the table. It is whether you are inside the decision-making circle before the decision is made. The episode offers a practical way to assess whether HR is operating as a functional expert, a business partner, or the strategic adviser the CEO cannot afford to make decisions without.5 things you'll learn from this episode:The surprising reason CHROs may have more strategic access than almost any other executive, but still struggle to turn it into influenceThe characteristics that can move an HR leader from trusted functional expert to indispensable strategic adviserWhy the strongest CHROs are increasingly expected to understand far more than HR, and what that changes about the roleThe tension HR leaders must learn to hold when the CEO, the workforce and the wider business do not all want the same thingThe question that can reveal whether you are truly inside the CEO's decision-making circle, or simply being informed after the fact

FOLLOW UP: VW COST CUTTING MEASURES CONFIRMEDThe board of the Volkswagen Group has agreed to the restructuring plans that will include closing four plants, halving the number of models offered and an additional 50,000 roles to be culled. Additionally the Seat brand is to be retired in 2030. There is also a change in tactic with their Chinese operations, where they plan to build cars and export from the country to other markets. To find out more, click this Autocar article link here.FOLLOW UP: JLR COST CUTTING MEASURES INCLUDE JOBSCatching many by surprise, the cost-cutting measures will include around 4,000 roles going. The company hopes voluntary redundancy will do the trick. They are also leaning heavily on their suppliers to cut costs, but that is difficult for many to do. If you want to read more, click this Autocar article link here.AUGUST 2026 NEW CAR REGISTRATION FIGURESThe SMMT has released the August 2026 new car registration figures. Astonishingly, this is the best August on their chart going back to 2010. BEVs increased their market share again, as did HEVs and PHEVs. Surprisingly, there was a jump in private registrations. Once again Mikes Hawes, SMMT's Chief Executive, reminded the Government of how unsustainable the industry's efforts to meet the ZEV mandate are. Click this link here, to read more.STELLANTIS EUROPE MANAGEMENT CHANGESStellantis Europe, once again, is shuffling their senior management. This time starting with Olivier François ending his reign as the head of Fiat. He will be replaced by Arnaud Belloni who moves from the head of marketing for Renault. But Belloni will be also head up Abarth ad Lancia, as well as being the Chief Marketing Officer for Europe for Stellantis. Elsewhere, Xavier Chardon will lead DS Automobiles, as well as continue as CEO of Citroën. Xavier Peugeot will take the new role as Head of Jeep in Europe. There are many others too, which you can read all about by clicking this electrive article link here.GEELY SHUTS A VOLVO OFFICEGeely is shutting the satellite Volvo office in Stockholm, with the loss of an unspecified number of the 450 roles under that roof. The site was a key element of Volvo's moves in software, AI and digital customer experiences. To read more, click this Auto Igloo article link here.HONDA AND NISSAN DO SHAKE HANDSEarlier in the year the news came out that Honda and Nissan were close to signing a partnership or even merger, however that fell apart after Honda's valuation of their rival was significantly lower than was expected. But, both companies have now agreed to work together to standardise parts and software so they can share the economic benefits. The hope is that this can help them be more competitive with Chinese brands who are marching into their markets and taking an increasing share. Click this electrive article link here, for more.Additionally, Honda is leaning on its suppliers to reduce costs. There are three key areas, electrical parts, parts for software-defined cars as well as pressed and forged parts. The company is aiming for $9.4 billion in savings with 30% coming from the three areas mentioned, which sounds like a lot. Click this yahoo!finance article link here for more.If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCASTNEW NEW CAR NEWS -Suzuki e-SkySuzuki are poised to bring their second EV to UK shores, in the kei car form of the e-Sky. This is a small city car, expected to be priced below £20,000 and in Japan it has a max range of 193 miles. The car is due to go on sale in early spring 2027. Click this Autocar article link for more information.Hyundai Ioniq 3Hyundai has opened their order books for the Ioniq 3, a B-segment hatch with a starting price of £22,245 for the 42.2kWh battery pack version, with a maximum expected range around 213 miles. A 61kWh battery pack option is available from £25,745, which is expected to enable a max range of 308 miles. The final specifications and test results are yet to be confirmed. There are further trim levels which you can read about by clicking this electrive article link here.Mercedes GLAThe new GLA has been revealed, in electric guise, by Mercedes-Benz. Bigger than the previous model, it is now squarely aimed at the likes of the Audi Q4 and Volvo EX40. Whilst the electric model will be available from November, the hybrid will only arrive in 2027. There will be a variety of battery, including different chemical compositions, and motor options. This will translate to a variety of maximum ranges, with the longest being 408 miles. Click this Autocar article link here to read more.LUNCHTIME READ: LE ZOB REVOLUTIONAIRE!Driven to Write and Eóin Doyle are the originators of our recommendation for something longer form for your enjoyment. Eóin talks about how the Citroën AX came to be, what it replaced and how revolutionary this was for the company. To read more, click this link here.LIST OF THE WEEK: THE SUPERCARS YOU (PROBABLY) FORGOT EVER EXISTEDAutocar and Richard Dredge provide the slideshow of supercars you might have forgotten ever existed in the first place, if you knew about them at all. Some wonderfully mad options which go some way to explaining why they did not register in the mind more firmly. Click this link to see what your choices are.AND FINALLY: HOT WHEELS LEGENDS TOUR UK 2026 WINNERDuring the CarFest event, at the end of August, the Hot Wheels Legends Tour UK final was held. Three judges, Dwayne Vance (Hot Wheels designer), Nicola Hume (presenter) and Richard Hammond (classic car restoration company owner) all voted for the winner, a heavily modified 1972 VW Beetle. You have to check out this Motoring Research article link here, to see how epically insane the car is.

It's ev.news Briefly for Monday 07 September 2026, only todays headlines and nothing else, in just 4 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the ev.news Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/evnewsRIVIAN OS 2 REACHES BOTH R1 GENERATIONSRivian began rolling out update 2026.31 on Friday, extending RivianOS 2 to R1T and R1S models from both R1 generations alongside R2, adding a vertical status bar, quick controls and media player placeable on either side of the centre display, a rebuilt Settings 2 app with universal search, Real-Time Route Alerts for speed cameras and police presence in Google Maps navigation, and Rivian Unified Intelligence behind a "Hey Rivian" assistant that can control vehicle functions. Hardware still divides the platform: R2 and second-generation R1 vehicles run Unreal Engine 5 for real-time 3D visualisations while first-generation R1s stay on Unreal Engine 4 to preserve screen responsiveness, reflecting the first-gen's 17 electronic control units against the 2024 second-gen's seven-unit zonal architecture, dual Nvidia Drive AGX Orin processors and roughly ten times the processing power.REPORTED ID. POLO ORDERS TOP 30,000 BEFORE LAUNCHMore than 30,000 orders for Volkswagen's ID. Polo, priced from €24,995 (about $29,000), have reportedly been placed across Europe before the hatchback's official sales launch, with pre-sales open since late April, demand strongest in Germany and most buyers ordering without having seen or driven the car. A major VW dealer group says the range is effectively sold out with waits of at least ten months, while Volkswagen attributes the delays to strong demand and capacity planned in advance at its Martorell plant in Spain, where it is progressively increasing production.HYUNDAI OPENS STARIA ELECTRIC ORDERS IN EUROPEHyundai has opened European orders for the Staria Electric from €57,450 (about $66,800) for the German Trend nine-seater, using an 84 kWh battery, a 160 kW (218 hp) front motor, up to 430 km (267 miles) WLTP range and an 800V architecture that charges 10-80% in about 20 minutes at 350 kW, plus internal and external 16-amp V2L. At 5,253 mm it is 200 mm longer than the IONIQ 9 and larger than the Kia PV5 and VW ID. Buzz, with up to 1,303 litres of luggage space in nine-seat form, a Prime version adding electric sliding doors, powered tailgate, Highway Assistant 1.5 and a 230V socket, and a Calligraphy seven-seater from €66,950 ($77,800) with Nappa leather, BOSE audio and reclining second-row seats.ELECTRIC VEHICLES OUTSELL PETROL CARS IN AUSTRALIAFully electric vehicles outsold petrol cars in Australia for the first time last month, with 27,078 EVs registered against 25,824 petrol and 23,608 diesel vehicles, taking one in four new-car sales. Including plug-in hybrids, battery-powered vehicles reached 36% of the market while petrol and diesel together fell below 50%, a shift BYD's Paul Ellis put down to falling reluctance and an influx of cheaper Chinese models, leaving public charging capacity as the open question.UK ELECTRIC VAN SHARE HITS RECORD 16.3%UK electric van registrations rose 25.9% to 2,395 units in August, a record 16.3% share of the light commercial vehicle market, with battery-electric vans at 11.0% of new LCV registrations in the year to August. August is traditionally a low-volume month ahead of September's numberplate change, so the share gain may overstate the trend and September will be the clearer test of sustained fleet demand.US DIESEL AVERAGE REACHES $5.85 A GALLONUS diesel hit a record national average of $5.85 a gallon on Friday, according to AAA data cited by the New York Times, 55% above the level at the start of the US war against Iran in late February and above the previous peak set in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. Diesel powers heavy-duty pickups, commercial fleets and farming, so the rise feeds through to supermarket prices, landing weeks before the midterms in a political climate hostile to EVs despite the household cost relief that switching away from the pumps could deliver.BYD OFFERS UK DISCOUNTS OF UP TO £2,500BYD will cut UK prices by up to £2,500 ($3,300) across its DM-i plug-in and electric range from 10 to 21 September in what it calls its biggest-ever sales event, covering the Dolphin Surf, Dolphin, Sealion 07, Seal U DM-i and Atto 2 DM-i, as the UK's record 25.6% BEV share for the first eight months of 2026 still sits below the 33% mandate. The brand has registered more than 110,000 UK vehicles since March 2023, with registrations up 98% to over 48,000 through August and market share rising to 3.48% from 1.92%, and the Europe-specific Dolphin G DM-i arrives this month from £250 ($330) a month.SPD BACKS EU TARIFFS ON CHINESE PLUG-IN HYBRIDSGermany's Social Democratic Party has backed extending EU tariffs to Chinese plug-in hybrids, closing a gap in measures that levy up to 45% on Chinese-built electric vehicles but leave hybrids untouched, setting out the position in an economic-policy paper calling for more resolute protection against "unfair practices". The stance is a notable shift for the CDU's junior coalition partner, given Germany opposed the 2024 EV tariffs and has long resisted tough measures on China for fear of retaliation against key industries.BC2BC LAUNCHES WEST COAST TRUCK CHARGING CORRIDORThe British Columbia to Baja California ZEV Corridor, or BC2BC, has launched along the I-5, linking California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Baja California with an initial deployment of 20 EV charging stations and three hydrogen fuelling stations for the estimated 10,000 trucks using the route daily. CalSTA, CALSTART/Drive to Zero and UC Davis's Institute of Transportation Studies are coordinating planning and investment, with Volvo Group North America, Southern California Edison, Tesla, EV Realty and King Fio Trucking represented at the Port of Long Beach launch.TESLA AND BYD DRIVE KOREAN IMPORT GROWTHImported vehicle sales in Korea rose 9.2% year on year to 29,817 units in August, driven largely by Tesla and BYD, while all five domestic carmakers recorded declines. Union walkouts from July into August lasted around 60 hours and were estimated to have cost about 55,000 vehicles of production, contributing alongside fewer summer holiday production days to a 7.6% fall at Kia, and growth in a market long led by BMW and Mercedes-Benz came mainly from lower-priced EVs.STELLANTIS OFFERS REFURBISHED BATTERIES FOR MOST EV MODELSStellantis is making refurbished high-voltage batteries available for most battery-electric and plug-in hybrid models across its brands, remanufactured to OEM specification with the same performance characteristics and warranty terms as MOPAR original parts. The company says the approach extends product life and prevents waste, saving up to 80% of raw materials and up to 40% of CO2 emissions against new parts, building on its earlier supply of refurbished EV batteries for stationary storage including at Rome Airport.

¿Quién decidirá el futuro del motor en Europa? Si piensas que serán las grandes firmas alemanas o francesas, la realidad actual podría sorprenderte. Los gigantes automovilísticos chinos están protagonizando una compra sigilosa y estratégica de nuestras fábricas y de las marcas más icónicas de toda la vida. La estrategia es brillante: asimilar la nostalgia y la historia europea para introducir su tecnología en nuestros garajes. Hace no tanto tiempo, la percepción de los vehículos chinos estaba ligada a una calidad dudosa y a copias de diseños occidentales. Sin embargo, el panorama ha cambiado radicalmente. Hoy en día, China es una superpotencia tecnológica que domina la cadena de suministro global de baterías, la digitalización y los minerales clave. Gran parte de este éxito radica en su cúpula directiva y política, formada en su inmensa mayoría por ingenieros y perfiles técnicos de altísimo nivel. Sabiendo que el comprador europeo es profundamente tradicional y romántico con sus marcas, las grandes corporaciones chinas evitaron el millonario coste de introducir firmas desconocidas. Su solución fue utilizar su inmenso capital para adquirir el prestigio incalculable y el "saber hacer" de las marcas de siempre. Repasamos cómo esta asimilación ha transformado el mapa automotriz europeo: Ebro: La mítica marca española, famosa por sus tractores y furgonetas, resurge de sus cenizas. Tras el cierre de las instalaciones de Nissan en la Zona Franca de Barcelona en 2021, el gigante automovilístico chino Chery se asoció con EV Motors. Esta alianza no solo ha resucitado a Ebro con previsiones de producción de miles de vehículos, sino que las mismas instalaciones barcelonesas ensamblarán modelos eléctricos del grupo Chery, como Omoda y Jaecoo. Lotus: La marca fundada por Colin Chapman bajo el lema "simplifica y luego añade ligereza", fue adquirida en un 51% por el grupo Geely en 2017 para salvarla de la agonía financiera. La paradoja actual es que, gracias a la inyección del capital chino, la firma ha sobrevivido, pero su nuevo buque insignia (el Eletre) es un lujoso y pesado SUV eléctrico de dos toneladas y media. MG (Morris Garages): Quizás el caballo de Troya perfecto. El que fuera el símbolo del roadster británico es hoy una firma controlada al 100% por la corporación estatal china SAIC Motor. La ingeniería y producción se trasladaron a China, y el emblemático logo octogonal se utiliza ahora en compactos y SUV eléctricos de gran éxito de ventas. El consumidor compra nostalgia europea, aunque el vehículo provenga directamente de Shanghái. Pirelli: La icónica firma italiana de neumáticos fue comprada en 2015 por ChemChina (actual Sinochem). Con la evolución de los neumáticos hacia entes súper tecnológicos capaces de recopilar datos críticos ("Cyber Tyre"), el gobierno italiano invocó recientemente la ley del "Golden Power". Esta medida busca limitar la influencia del Estado chino en decisiones estratégicas y blindar la sensibilidad de los datos que recogen estos neumáticos en las carreteras europeas. Polestar: Nacida originalmente como la división de competición de Volvo, Geely (dueña de Volvo) la transformó en una marca independiente de vehículos eléctricos premium para competir con Tesla o Porsche. Representa la simbiosis perfecta: el diseño vanguardista y sostenible se desarrolla en Suecia, mientras que la fabricación se nutre de las mega fábricas y la tecnología de baterías en China. Smart: Fruto inicial de la compleja unión entre Swatch y Mercedes-Benz, Smart fue durante décadas un pozo de pérdidas para los alemanes a pesar de ser un icono urbano. En 2019, Geely compró el 50% de la marca. Hoy, Mercedes-Benz se limita al diseño exterior e interior, mientras que Geely se encarga del chasis, motores, software y fabricación en China. Adiós a los biplazas minúsculos; los nuevos Smart son potentes SUV compactos. Volvo: El caso de éxito por excelencia. En 2010, Geely compró la marca sueca a Ford. Contra todo pronóstico pesimista, el capital chino respetó la identidad de la firma ("Geely es Geely, Volvo es Volvo"). Financiaron el desarrollo tecnológico en Suecia y dejaron que los ingenieros europeos hicieran lo que mejor saben hacer: fabricar coches seguros y elegantes. El resultado ha sido una época dorada con récords históricos de ventas mundiales. En definitiva, el legado histórico de Europa ha encontrado en el músculo financiero de China la vía para sobrevivir a la transición eléctrica. Nosotros ponemos la nostalgia y el diseño; ellos, el capital y la tecnología.

AI is moving faster than most organisations can redesign themselves, so how do you stop transformation becoming a series of disconnected technology fixes?Every leader says they want a high-performing team. But what happens when poor performance, missed standards and a lack of ownership are tolerated for too long?In the most recent HR Leaders Podcast episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Paul D. Brubaker, Vice President Human Resources at KARL STORZ North America.Paul shares what decades of leadership have taught him about building teams around trust, accountability and continuous improvement. From knowing when coaching is no longer enough to preparing HR teams for AI-driven change, he explains why great cultures are shaped by the behaviours leaders consistently reward, challenge and refuse to tolerate.5 things you'll learn from this episode:The overlooked “trust dividend” that can remove unnecessary checking, duplication and friction from your teamThe warning sign that tells leaders they may have held onto an underperformer for too longWhy the standards you quietly tolerate can become the culture your entire team starts to acceptThe AI opportunity Paul believes could remove huge amounts of transactional HR work, and the barrier still slowing many organisations downWhy staying relevant in HR will increasingly depend on your ability to learn, adapt and build new capabilities faster than your role changes

Berlin's cultural power was built on cheap space, unfinished buildings and artists willing to live precariously. The city is wealthier now, but can the people who created its value still afford to remain?For this episode of The Art Bystander Podcast, Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar speaks with Philipp Solf, entrepreneur, collector and one of the people behind Wilhelm Hallen and HALLEN 07, and Dr Anne Vieth, Head of the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection.Why does Solf resist calling HALLEN an art fair? What happens when contemporary art turns an industrial building into a desirable address? And what does a company such as Mercedes-Benz owe the culture from which it draws prestige?Vieth takes us inside SEEING FORMS, the collection's exhibition at HALLEN 07, and speaks about using art to unsettle habits within a corporation. Solf is equally candid about art's power to position property within a city, bringing the conversation to gentrification, public funding and who gains when culture makes an address valuable. This is a conversation about how Berlin might become wealthier without driving out the artists who made it culturally necessary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Toyota didn't beat Mercedes by getting cheaper. It beat Mercedes by getting closer to the customer first. Here's the six-year research obsession behind the Lexus LS 400, and why undercutting your way to a full panel is a strategy that has already failed in a dozen other industries, and what Harvard's own pricing research says to do instead. By Michael Tetreault, Editor-In-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today "I'm a car guy, so bear with me on this one. There will be some good points [in this article], I promise. I know enough about engines to self-diagnose and wrench on them myself. Driving an old car with lifter problems through North Dakota and southern Canada in the '90s will teach you that." ~Michael Tetreault Today's article isn't about concierge medicine directly. It's about a distant cousin in the subscription-based healthcare world, direct primary care, or DPC. Over the past two decades, I've noticed more and more that there is a moment almost every DPC or low-cost, membership-based practice hits around year two or three, when the patient panel quietly stalls (catch the car pun). Growth that used to feel automatic starts to flatten out, and you notice it before you can quite explain it. That's usually right about when a competitor down the road launches at $59 to $93 a month, and a quiet voice in your head says: just drop the price. Fill the seats. Worry about margin later. That instinct is understandable. It is also, according to decades of business research and a growing body of data inside concierge and membership medicine itself, one of the fastest ways to damage the very practice you built to serve patients better. This is not a scolding. It is a strategy conversation, grounded in evidence, for low-cost subscription-based physicians who left, or are considering leaving, the insurance-driven system specifically to build something sustainable that has a low cost for the patients because you feel your altruistic nature pulling you to do so. But, if the goal is sustainability, the tactic matters. What "racing to the bottom" actually means Let's zoom out for a moment. A price war is what happens when competitors inside the same market repeatedly cut prices to undercut one another, creating a cycle where each side matches or beats the last cut. This "price-cutting momentum" pulls in competitors who feel forced to follow the initial price cut, and while it can create short-term benefits for the buyer, it erodes the profit margins of everyone competing. Harvard Business School researchers Akshay Rao and Mark Bergen, writing in Harvard Business Review, built a career studying exactly this dynamic across industries. Their conclusion, echoed by strategists since, is blunt: most price wars are avoidable, and the businesses that start them or get pulled into them rarely come out ahead. The Kinsta business blog, summarizing HBR's own internal analysis of the question, put it plainly: when businesses were asked whether they should engage in a price war, the overwhelming answer was "no." Instead, the research points toward differentiation as the more durable response to a low-cost competitor. There is a second, quieter finding in that same research that some physicians should sit with. Price itself shapes how a buyer perceives value, and a price set too low signals that the product is cheap, in the way a price set too high can signal it is a ripoff. In other words, the discount that was supposed to win the patient can be the very thing that tells the patient your care is not worth much. It's indeed, a delicate balance and it's different for every practice and every doctor. Why? Because of who you work for and serve: the patient. Every patient is different. Every practice is different. That makes this topic challenging but it's a conversation worth having because I want to see your practice thrive and more importantly, survive in your community. The framework underneath the instinct Michael Porter, the Harvard strategist whose work still anchors most first-year MBA curricula, described three durable paths to competitive advantage: cost leadership, differentiation, or a focused niche strategy. A company chooses to compete either through lower costs than its rivals or by differentiating itself along dimensions the customer actually values, in order to command a higher price. What Porter warned against was the position most panic-driven price cuts land a practice in. Porter's phrase for it is "stuck in the middle," and it describes an organization trying to be all things to all people, with no distinct competitive advantage as a result. Businesses caught here typically perform the worst in their industry precisely because they never committed to one strength. A DPC practice that quietly lowers its price to compete on cost, while still trying to deliver same-day access, unhurried visits, and so-called affordable white-glove service, is not competing on cost leadership. It is trying to sell a premium product at a discount price, and the math does not hold. Today, a medical practice or a company stuck in this position cannot beat a true cost leader on price, because it never built the operational discipline or scale to sustain that price, and it cannot beat a differentiator on the experience it promised, because the discipline required to deliver that experience costs money. Both promises erode at once. What the data inside DPC and low-cost membership medicine is already showing This is not theoretical for DPC and low-cost membership medicine practices. It is visible in the industry's own numbers. The 2026 State of DPC survey, distributed through the DPC Alliance and Hint Health's network, found a direct relationship between panel size and price. Practices with fewer than 200 patients averaged $105.93 per member per month, practices with 201 to 500 patients averaged $99.28, and practices with more than 500 patients averaged $77.74 per member per month. Read plainly, the larger the panel, the lower the average price charged per patient. That pattern is exactly what Porter's framework predicts happens to practices chasing volume without a differentiation strategy to protect price. It is worth noting this figure comes from Hint Health, a technology vendor with a commercial interest in DPC's growth, so it should be read as directional industry data rather than an independent audit. It is nonetheless the most comprehensive dataset the movement currently has. At the same time, the broader market is not short on room to compete on value instead of price. More than half of private healthcare consumers rank the cost of care as the most dissatisfying part of their current healthcare experience, and DPC's growth has been driven in large part by employers and patients who are tired of opaque, escalating costs elsewhere in the system, not by DPC being the cheapest option on paper. Employers now fund the majority, roughly 60 percent, of active DPC memberships, according to Hint Health's 2026 trends report, which signals that the buyers filling panels today are increasingly sophisticated purchasers evaluating value, retention, and outcomes, not simply hunting for the lowest sticker price. Regional pricing tells a similar story. Northeast DPC pricing rose 33 percent over five years, from $60 to $80 a month, even as national demand for the model accelerated. Practices in that region did not grow by discounting. They grew while raising price, in a market that was simultaneously expanding. The altruism problem no one names out loud Here is the part of this conversation that is specific to medicine and does not show up in a typical business school case study on price wars. Physicians are trained, deliberately and repeatedly, to put the patient's welfare ahead of their own. Medical professionalism itself is defined in the literature by principles of excellence, accountability, altruism, integrity, and humanism, all oriented around the patient relationship. That formation is not incidental. It is the point of medical education, and it is a genuine strength of the profession that should never be coached out of a physician. But that same formation has a side effect worth naming honestly. A rigorous study out of the University of Cologne and University of Rennes, published in the Journal of Health Economics, measured patient-regarding altruism in 733 medical students at different stages of training. The researchers found that patient-regarding altruism is highest among freshmen, declines significantly through the middle years of medical study, and rises again in the final year as students begin assisting in clinical practice. Students with lower income expectations showed higher altruism scores overall. Sit with that last finding. The training that makes physicians excellent, trustworthy, patient-first clinicians also correlates with a documented discomfort around charging what care is actually worth. That discomfort is admirable in the exam room. It becomes a strategic liability in the business office, where it quietly nudges a physician toward the lowest defensible price rather than the price that reflects the value delivered, the access provided, and the sustainability required to keep serving that same patient for the next twenty years. This is not a call to abandon altruism. It is a call to separate two different questions that get tangled together under stress: am I a good doctor and am I running a sustainable practice. A price built out of guilt is not more altruistic than a price built out of strategy. A closed practice serves no one. What other industries learned the hard way Medicine is not the first field to face this exact temptation, and the businesses that raced to the bottom on price rarely tell a happy ending. Rao and Bergen's HBR research spans industries from B2B and agribusiness to healthcare and the nonprofit sector, and the throughline in that body of work is consistent: firms that respond to a low-price competitor by cutting their own price usually shrink the whole market's profitability without gaining durable share, because the competitor simply cuts again. The winners in price wars, when there are any, tend to be the largest players with the deepest balance sheets, the ones who can absorb losses the longest. A solo or small-group physician practice is almost never that player, and should not try to be. The lesson for low-cost DPC physicians is not abstract. It is Porter's choice, stated as a decision every practice has to make deliberately rather than by drift: compete on being demonstrably, operationally the lowest-cost, highest-efficiency provider in your market, which requires real scale and real systems, or compete on being demonstrably different in a way patients value enough to pay for. Trying to hold both at once is what leaves a practice, in Porter's words, stuck in the middle, with margins too thin to sustain the very things that made the practice worth choosing in the first place. The Lexus Lesson: Price Is a Result, Not a Strategy Circling back to my car guy roots, there is an automotive story worth every physician's attention here, because it is one of the clearest business case studies ever produced on the exact question this article is asking you if you're a DPC physician. It comes from Hagerty's "Revelations" series, hosted by Jason Cammisa, on the origin of the 1989 Lexus LS 400, and it has been retold in detail across automotive trade press and in Chester Dawson's book Lexus: The Relentless Pursuit. The origin story matters as much as the engineering. Toyota's first American export, the Toyopet Crown, was a flop, selling only a few hundred units before Toyota pulled it from the market in the late 1950s. Twenty five years of steady rebuilding later, Toyota had become the largest importer of vehicles into the United States, and that success triggered a protectionist response. In the early 1980s, the U.S. government pressured Japan into so-called voluntary export restraints, capping Japanese auto imports at roughly 1.7 million vehicles a year. With volume capped by government policy, Toyota USA's Yukiyasu Togo pushed a different lever: if the company could not sell more cars, it needed to sell more profitable ones. That constraint, not ambition alone, is what pushed Toyota into the luxury segment. In 1983, Toyota's then chairman Eiji Toyoda greenlit a secret effort known as Project F1, for Flagship One. Where a typical vehicle program of that era might use around 200 engineers and a few hundred million dollars, F1 was reportedly given no fixed budget and a development team of roughly 1,400 engineers, 60 designers, and thousands of additional technicians and support staff, spread across a six-year effort widely reported to have cost in the neighborhood of a billion dollars. What that team actually did is the part physicians should study closely. Rather than guess at what luxury buyers wanted, a team of designers and engineers relocated to a rented house in Laguna Beach, California, and spent months directly observing affluent Americans: watching valet stands outside country clubs, studying the furniture in high-end homes, and even analyzing the leather scent inside Jaguar interiors closely enough to reverse-engineer the tanning process. They tested switchgear and steering wheel ergonomics against how women with long, manicured nails actually interact with a dashboard. This is the practice Toyota calls genchi genbutsu, going to see for yourself, rather than relying on assumptions about the customer. Separately, Toyota's research uncovered something more specific and more useful than "people want a cheaper luxury car." Mercedes-Benz owners loved the prestige of their cars but consistently described the dealership experience itself, the pressure, the wait, the sense of being talked down to, as miserable. Lexus rebuilt the entire buying experience around that single insight. Sales moved from an elevated desk to a shared coffee table, removing the physical power imbalance of a traditional car sale. Only 80 of roughly 1,500 dealer applicants were approved to sell the car, each required to invest several million dollars and submit to ongoing customer satisfaction audits. The product and the experience of buying it were treated as a single, inseparable offer. The engineering discipline underneath all of this was, by most independent accounts, extreme. Chief engineer Ichiro Suzuki pursued a drag coefficient of 0.29, well below the S-Class's 0.36 to 0.37, without relying on a rear spoiler, which he considered an inelegant shortcut. Interior noise was engineered down to roughly 58 decibels versus about 60 for the S-Class, and multiple road tests reported the LS 400 was as quiet at 125 miles per hour as its German rivals were at 95. Prototypes logged well over a million miles of testing, and engineers reportedly disassembled competitor vehicles to study exactly how they failed over years of use, then engineered around each weakness. When the LS 400 launched in 1989, it was priced at roughly $35,000, commonly cited as about half the price, or as much as $30,000 less, than a comparably equipped Mercedes-Benz S-Class. The price gap was so large that BMW reportedly suggested Toyota was selling the car at a loss. Within two years, Lexus had overtaken Mercedes-Benz as the best-selling luxury import brand in the United States and topped J.D. Power's quality and service rankings, and Mercedes is reported to have lost roughly a quarter of its U.S. sales in the aftermath. Here is the part physicians should sit with. The low price was not the strategy. It was the output of the strategy. Toyota did not set out to build a cheaper Mercedes and work backward. It spent six years and enormous resources removing the specific frustrations its own research showed were driving prestige-loving customers away, then engineered a manufacturing process disciplined enough to make that quality repeatable at scale, and only after that work was done did it set a price the market would reward. The aggressive price was possible because the operational excellence and the customer research underneath it were real, not because anyone at Toyota decided to compete by cutting corners. This is the distinction that gets lost when a DPC or low-cost membership medicine practice drops its membership fee simply to fill a panel out of fear. Toyota's price was earned through relentless, well-funded engineering and firsthand study of exactly what its target customer resented about the existing options. A practice that lowers its price without first doing that same work, actually going to see for yourself what frustrates the patients you want to serve, and building a practice that removes those specific frustrations, is doing the opposite of what Lexus did. It is cutting the price before it has earned the right to. The translatable lesson is not "charge less." It is this: find out, directly and specifically, what your patients are actually frustrated by in the healthcare experience they already have, build a practice that removes that frustration with real discipline, treat the entire patient experience, not just the clinical visit, as part of the product, and let price follow from that work rather than substitute for it. Toyota spent six years in the field before it touched the price tag. Most practices considering a discount have not spent six weeks asking patients what specifically is broken in the care they are currently getting. What to build instead None of this means price is fixed or that access should be reserved only for the wealthy. It means the starting question changes. Instead of asking what is the lowest price that will fill my panel, the more durable question is what does my practice do that a patient cannot get anywhere else in this market, and does my price reflect that honestly. That might be same-day access. It might be visit length. It might be a specific clinical focus, a specific population, or a specific relationship to a local employer. Differentiation does not require the highest price in the market. It requires a clear, honest reason for the price you have chosen, one you can say out loud to a patient without flinching. Panel growth built on discounting tends to attract patients who are price-shopping and will leave the moment a cheaper option appears next door. Panel growth built on a clear, differentiated value proposition tends to attract patients who stay, refer, and tolerate a price increase because they understand what they are paying for. This article is intended for educational and informational purposes for physicians and healthcare leaders. It does not constitute financial, legal, accounting, or medical advice, and practice pricing decisions should be made in consultation with qualified financial and legal advisors familiar with your specific market and regulatory environment. Sources Rao, Akshay R. and Bergen, Mark E. "How to Fight a Price War." Harvard Business Review, March-April 2000. hbr.org/2000/03/how-to-fight-a-price-war "Price war." Wikipedia, accessed August 2026. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_war "How a Race to the Bottom Hurts Your Business's Bottom Line." Kinsta, July 15, 2024. kinsta.com/blog/race-to-the-bottom Porter, Michael E. Competitive Strategy (1980) and Competitive Advantage (1985), Harvard Business School Press. 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Publisher synopsis via AbeBooks, abebooks.com/9780470828045 A detailed companion recap of the Hagerty Revelations episode, covering Project F1 staffing, the Laguna Beach research house, the coffee-table dealership model, and Suzuki's engineering targets, was supplied directly by the editor. Its original publisher and byline could not be independently confirmed at time of writing. Facts drawn from it (drag coefficient, price gap, engineer count, dealership vetting) were cross-checked against sources 11 through 15 above before inclusion, and the editor should confirm original attribution before publication.

Jonathan Kienle's team once sent a salesperson to chase down a customer's canceled check, and he crashed the loaner car doing it, and Kienle says that single moment is exactly why he stopped trusting cash, checks, and credit cards to handle his dealership's biggest transactions. He walks through how switching the default down payment method saved his group $168,000 in fees so far this year, with $300,000 in sight by year's end, and argues that most dealers are needlessly eating card fees and fraud risk on payments that don't have to carry either. Jonathan Kienle is the Director of Operations at Walters Automotive Group and Kienle Motorsports in Riverside, California, where he oversees five stores spanning Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Audi. A third-generation dealer, he started at the family store at 14 cleaning the parts department, worked nearly every job in the building, and spent two years cold-calling at a Ford store before his father would let him back in. Joining him is Truett Dwyer, Co-Founder and CEO of Clerq, the payments company he credits with turning down payment collection from a source of risk into a documented driver of profit. Kienle speaks candidly about the moment that convinced him legacy payment methods weren't worth the risk anymore, how he trained his finance team to make the new method the default instead of the fallback, and what surprised him most once the savings started compounding. This episode of Industry Spotlight is brought to you by Clerq. Topics: 02:40 Dad Made Him Start At Ford First. 06:50 Canceled Checks Left Dealers Chasing Customers. 07:10 Credit Card Fees Destroy Margins. 08:00 Salesman Crashed Car Chasing A Check. 09:55 Clerq Is Venmo For Dealerships. 11:00 Debit Cards Have Daily Spend Limits. 12:40 Dealer Didn't Believe Solution Existed. 14:30 Clerq Guarantees Every Transaction. 16:30 Checks Expose Customer Bank Info. 18:35 $168K Saved In Credit Card Fees. 23:45 Dealers Need Fast Payouts. 28:20 Focus Drove Way More Savings. Clerq - Clerq's instant bank payment solution modernizes down payments, deposits and other large transactions - helping leading dealerships drive more sales, cut costs and reduce risk. Visit here to learn more. Check out Car Dealership Guy's stuff: For dealers: CDG Circles ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://cdgcircles.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Industry job board ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://jobs.dealershipguy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dealership recruiting ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.cdgrecruiting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Fix your dealership's social media ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.trynomad.co⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Request to be a podcast guest ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.cdgguest.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For industry vendors: Advertise with Car Dealership Guy ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.cdgpartner.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Industry job board ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://jobs.dealershipguy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Request to be a podcast guest ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.cdgguest.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Car Dealership Guy Socials: X ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠x.com/GuyDealership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/cardealershipguy/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tiktok.com/@guydealership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linkedin.com/company/cardealershipguy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Threads ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠threads.net/@cardealershipguy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077402857683⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Everything else ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠dealershipguy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

In this episode of The Ferrari Marketplace Podcast, host William Ross interviews Chris Miele of Prancing Horse of Nashville (Ferrari of Nashville) about his lifelong passion for Ferraris, from attending Ferrari Club of America Nationals as a kid in New Jersey to serving as a Marine scout sniper in Hawaii while obsessively reading car magazines. Miele explains how he entered the auto business through Mercedes-Benz, gained early Ferrari dealership experience in Hawaii, helped launch a New Jersey Ferrari dealership in 2004, and witnessed key model eras, calling the 360 a major game changer. He discusses how Ferrari options and tailor-made evolved, the importance of deep product knowledge and Ferrari Academy training, and how Nashville was chosen to fill a regional market gap. He outlines the dealership's ownership group, unique atelier features, Classiche work, restoration and concours projects, events, storage services, and the strategy behind sourcing rare inventory. ===== (Oo---x---oO) ===== 00:00 Meet Chris Miele 01:06 Early Ferrari Spark 02:29 The Marine Corps Years 05:07 First Dealership Break 06:33 Building Ferrari NJ 09:42 Breaking Into Ferrari Sales 13:53 Options and Tailor Made Evolution 17:57 Classiche and Concours Projects 21:21 Chris' Detour to Rolls and Porsche 23:57 Launching Prancing Horse of Nashville 28:24 What's it like opening a Ferrari Dealer? 31:07 Ferrari Academy Training 32:24 Ownership Group Spotlight 33:33 Designing the Atelier Room 35:50 Sourcing Rare Inventory & Classiche Program Value 40:22 Italy Projects and Events 43:43 Collector Market Realities 48:07 Growth and Storage Business 50:23 Wrap Up and Sponsors ==================== The Motoring Podcast Network : Years of racing, wrenching and Motorsports experience brings together a top notch collection of knowledge, stories and information. #everyonehasastory #gtmbreakfix - motoringpodcast.net More Information: Visit Our Website Become a VIP at: Patreon Online Magazine: Gran Touring Follow us on Social: Instagram On Ferrari Friday's, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace will be discussing all things Ferrari and interviewing people that live and breathe the Ferrari brand. Topics range from road cars to racing; drivers to owners, as well as auctions, private sales and trends in the collector market. Copyright William Ross, Exotic Car Marketplace a division of Sixty5 Motorsports. This episode is part of our Motoring Podcast Network and has been republished with permission.

“Hopefully in three or four years, we will be on 50% of all the devices on the planet,” Ramin Hasani, co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI and a machine-learning scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, the pair discuss how Liquid AI's alternative to transformer architecture could make foundation models dramatically more efficient, allowing specialized intelligence to run directly on cars, phones, laptops and other edge devices rather than relying on data centers. Hasani explains how Liquid AI is working with companies including Mercedes-Benz and Shopify while developing personalized and proactive agents that could turn its models into an intelligence layer spanning devices, enterprises and the physical world.

AI is moving faster than most organisations can redesign themselves, so how do you stop transformation becoming a series of disconnected technology fixes?In the most recent HR Leaders Podcast episode, I had an insightful conversation with Judith Wiese, Chief People and Sustainability Officer (CPSO) of Siemens AG.She explains how Siemens is rethinking its operating model, skills infrastructure and approach to AI as it becomes a more connected technology company. From simplifying the foundations underneath HR to embedding learning into everyday work, Judith shares how Siemens is preparing its people and organisation for a world where transformation never really stops.5 things you'll learn from this episode:The three-part AI model Siemens uses to separate everyday adoption from the much harder challenge of redesigning business processesWhy one of the biggest barriers to scaling AI has nothing to do with the technology itselfThe unglamorous HR foundations Siemens believes need to be in place before personalised learning and skills strategies can really workHow Siemens is using skills data to uncover far more internal career opportunities than traditional CV matching could revealWhy Judith believes the ability to keep learning may become more valuable than much of the knowledge employees already have today

Episode 129 of the CarQuicks Automotive Podcast is packed with new performance cars and big reveals. Lamborghini turns up the Revuelto with the 1,050-HP SV, McLaren goes back to basics with the manual MCL 6GT, and Gordon Murray Automotive delivers another 12,100-RPM V12 manual supercar with the GMA S1.We also dive into the Genesis GV90 and its wild Neolun-inspired interior, Acura's Nexerar Vision concept and the future of its design, plus the return of Days of Thunder with a sequel planned for 2028.Plus, GR Corolla updates and a preview of the upcoming Texas Truck Rodeo.Supercars, manuals, new technology, and car culture - all on Episode 129 of the CarQuicks Automotive Podcast.-00:00 Intro | Days of Thunder Returns!?02:46 Acura Reveals the Nexera Concept07:38 Koenigsegg releases a NEW Hypercar11:16 Aston Martin turns the Vanquish Angrier15:04 Spyker is BACK from the Dead19:38 Lamborghini makes a FASTER Revuelto24:43 Brabus turns a Mercedes-Benz into $1.2 Million27:23 Gordon Murray Does it AGAIN... the S130:41 McLaren Proves you can STILL make a PROPER Manual Supercar33:49 Real quick... WHY do we have Louis Vuitton Singers... for what?35:01 Genesis enters the high-end Luxury SUV Market | Genesis GV9043:42 GR Corolla Updates | Channel Updates | New Events52:56 Outro-#automotiveindustry #automotivepodcast #carculture #carquicks #carnews ___More CarQuicks Reviews:✔️ First Drives✔️ Long-Term Ownership Reviews✔️ Performance Cars✔️ SUVs & Trucks✔️ Automotive News & PodcastsSubscribe for weekly automotive reviews, first drives, ownership updates, and industry news.

You hear two ads back to back. One sounds flat, like someone reading a script. The other sounds like a movie trailer. You already know which one you remember. Connor Quinn has voiced national ads for Visa, Mercedes-Benz, and Sandals Resorts. He's also been the voice of Braum's commercials in Oklahoma for nearly 20 years. Clarence brought him on to answer one question: how can a business with 6 to 50 employees afford that same level of voice talent? In this episode: Professional voice talent may cost less than you think. Connor prices jobs by market, so your local ad isn't priced like a Super Bowl commercial. Cheap voice work can cost more in the long run. Connor has seen business owners go through four or five cheap gigs trying to get one usable read. The best ads talk with customers, not at them. A real conversation is more memorable than another sales pitch. Listen now to discover why your next ad doesn't need a bigger budget—it may just need a better voice. Access the show notes here: LocalMarketMonopoly.com If you'd like to reach out and say hi, you can find Clarence @ClarenceFisher on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

China has roughly 700 NEV models on sale—but only 56 sell more than 5,000 units a month. That's how brutal the world's most competitive EV market has become.In Episode #260 of China EVs & More, Tu and Lei break down China's accelerating EV shakeout as regulators scrutinize quality, BYD reports weaker results, Li Auto struggles to regain momentum and XPeng pushes deeper into AI, autonomous driving and robotics.We also discuss:

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 30th of August, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Gospel of Mark 8:36. Jesus says: “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” Then we go to the Book of Romans 14:17: “for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Life is just so much more than eating and drinking. Years ago, we took a 20-ton Mercedes-Benz truck, we called it The Seed Sower. We took that truck from Cape Town as far as Kampala, Uganda, over a number of years, spending most of our time in the rural areas where there are very poor people, people who don't have much clothing to wear, people who don't have a lot of food to eat. We filled up that truck with food, clothes and Bibles. Now, this is very interesting because when we got there, we would take a big open area, advertise properly, and the crowds would come, because there was nothing else to do when you are in a rural area where no one goes. They would come in their numbers, I am talking about thousands. Some of these little children were dressed almost in rags and you could see that they were very hungry, and the women and the men had very sparse clothes. Their clothes were old and tattered. We would bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We had a platform that came down the side of that truck and with my good friend, Peter Motale, as my interpreter, we would preach the undiluted, simple Gospel. We would make the altar call and the whole crowd would come to the front every single time. Now these people, were not interested in the food. They were not interested in the clothes. They wanted the word of God, the Bible. Now how did they know that? These were uneducated people. They knew because of the Spirit of God in them. There was a hunger for the truth, so much more than eating and drinking. I saw it with my own eyes. Sometimes they were concerned they might lose out and wouldn't get a Bible. They ended up having fisticuffs, now that is the honest truth, because they wanted a Bible. The one time, I thought that they were going to turn this massive truck that was 18 metres long, that they were going to turn it over. They were scuffling so much. I got my young nephew, who was with me, to take a box of Bibles on his head and move away from the truck and distribute the Bibles there. Well, I just saw a cloud of dust and then I never saw my nephew again for a while until he came out, but the Bibles were given out!Today, remember this life is so much more than eating and drinking. It is about life eternal. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

Join Ray Stevens, DriveChicago.com General Manager Mark Bilek and Chicago Auto Show Senior Marketing Director Jim OBrill as they review the 2026 Mercedes-Benz AMG CLE 53, talk with CATA’s Jen Morand about the upcoming Behind the Wheel event and take a Quick Spin in the Genesis G90 with Tom Appel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! ¿Cómo consiguió una pequeña startup californiana poner contra las cuerdas a una industria con más de cien años de historia? En este episodio de La Ola Eléctrica recorremos la historia completa de Tesla, desde su fundación en 2003 y la llegada de Elon Musk hasta convertirse en uno de los fabricantes más influyentes del planeta. Hablamos del Tesla Roadster, los momentos en los que la compañía estuvo al borde de desaparecer, el nacimiento del Model S, el infierno de producción del Model 3, la expansión de las Gigafactorías, el éxito mundial del Model Y y la importancia de la red Supercharger. Pero la historia de Tesla no puede entenderse sin mirar también a los otros proyectos de Elon Musk. Analizamos la relación entre la filosofía de Tesla y SpaceX, el nacimiento de The Boring Company y cómo esa obsesión por cuestionar industrias tradicionales se repite una y otra vez. También llegamos hasta la Tesla de 2026, en plena batalla contra BYD y los fabricantes chinos, con una estrategia que empieza a mirar mucho más allá del automóvil: Robotaxi, Cybercab, inteligencia artificial, Optimus y almacenamiento energético. Una historia llena de éxitos, fracasos, promesas incumplidas, riesgos enormes y decisiones que terminaron obligando a Volkswagen, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Ford y prácticamente toda la industria a acelerar su transición hacia el coche eléctrico. ¿Tesla ganó la batalla o simplemente consiguió que todos los demás empezaran a correr? Descúbrelo en este nuevo episodio de La Ola Eléctrica.Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Somos Eléctricos. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/627406

BMW and Volkswagen are getting more aggressive in China—but NIO, ZEEKR and the Chinese competition aren't slowing down.In Episode #259 of China EVs & More, Tu and Lei break down the biggest developments from the Chengdu Motor Show, including aggressive pricing from BMW's Neue Klasse iX3 and Volkswagen launching an EV for under RMB90,000 (~$15K).Meanwhile, NIO's ES8 continues dominating the premium BEV segment, ZEEKR's 9X pushes above RMB500,000, and Geely is attacking the global affordable-EV market with the Xingyuan/EX2.We also discuss:

Send us Fan MailIn this WTR Small-Cap Spotlight showcase, host James Kisner joins virtually with WTR's Mike McCormack on the ground in Munich with Elena Coles, Head of Investor Relations at Circus SE (XETRA: CA1), the German AI robotics company building autonomous kitchen systems for commercial and defense customers. Coles walks through the portfolio: the flagship CA-1, which cooks up to six dishes in parallel on seven square meters and is deployed with Mercedes-Benz, REWE, Meta, and the Bundeswehr; the compact CA-A cup-based system from the Alberts acquisition; and the defense-focused CA-M, which replaces a field kitchen at roughly 5% of the staff. The conversation covers the Kitchen Robotics acquisition (30+ patents and NSF certification for US entry), a new proprietary ingredients program targeting up to 45% margins on a Nespresso-style razor-and-blade model, the Secura channel partnership into German industrial canteens, and the deliberate revenue shift from 2026 into a 2027 production ramp as CircusOS subscriptions and ingredient revenue scale with every deployed system.For additional content, visit: https://www.watertowerresearch.com