On 20 October the 2026 Chery Global Innovation Conference opened in Wuhu. Under the theme Change, the company did not point its cameras at a new model or a specification sheet. It laid out four freedoms: mobility, energy, food and life. Chairman Yin Tongyue was direct about the reasoning. The core value of technological evolution … Read more
Global electric vehicle sales fell 2 per cent year on year to 2.15 million units in September 2026, ending six consecutive months of growth, according to data from UK research firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Europe set a record for a single month, but not by enough to offset clear declines in North America and China. … Read more
Robotaxi has not yet produced an income statement of its own. Elon Musk is already discussing how much money it will make next year. Tesla’s Cybercab is already carrying passengers in Austin. Source: Gasgoo On the 22 October Tesla 2026 third-quarter earnings call, Musk said he expects the robotaxi business to start contributing clearly to … Read more
MG sold about 280,000 cars in Europe this year, up 23 per cent, and passed one million cumulative deliveries there. SAIC’s own read on that achievement is that it is no longer enough, and the group used a Shanghai industry forum on 23 October to explain what replaces it. MG has been the top-selling Chinese … Read more
Tesla now has 1.74 million paying Full Self-Driving customers worldwide, and the company still cannot tell its Chinese owners when the software will be fully available to them. The gap between those two facts was the most revealing part of its third-quarter earnings call on 22 October. Tesla’s paid FSD base reached 1.74 million users … Read more
Madrid is set to become the first Spanish city with a paid robotaxi service before the end of 2026, and the company planning to run it is Chinese. WeRide said it has approval for public-road testing and is moving into the final stretch before launching commercial operations in the Spanish capital. WeRide plans to launch … Read more
Mercedes-Benz used its platform slot at China’s flagship connected-vehicle conference to answer a question European boards keep asking in private: whether a German carmaker can still be early in a market now moving faster than its own product cycle. Two of its most senior executives said it can, and that the company intends to be … Read more
Audi has handed its China business to a Chinese national for the first time in the history of the brand’s operations there. Jeff Zhang takes over as president of Audi China from 1 November 2026, the company said on 22 October, replacing Johannes Roscheck, who returns to the Ingolstadt headquarters in early 2027. Jeff Zhang … Read more
A year of prototype testing inside Nissan’s European technical centre has turned into a production decision, and it changes how fast the carmaker can find the cause of a software fault. Nissan Technical Centre Europe is extending the Sonatus Fastlane platform across its pre-production validation process, after cutting the time engineers need to trace a … Read more
Four years of supplier scouting in China have produced a shortlist Renault now wants to convert into global contracts. Speaking in Shanghai on 23 October, Renault Group China chairman and chief executive Su Weiming said the French carmaker has examined more than 400 Chinese companies and is studying how to fold local tier-one and tier-two … Read more